Below are a couple of though provoking essays. Needless to say,
they do not necessarily represent my opinions, just that it is a
matter that the producers and consumers of scientific research
meteorites and other matters have to deal with in their lives.
Dear Scholars, Delete Your Account At
New Insight into Silica Explains Planetary Smashup
Earth & Space Science News, Eos, vol. 98, no. 2, p. 43.
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/new-insight-into-silica-explains-planetary-smashup
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309873404_New_Insight_into_Silica_Explains_Planetary_Smashup
First nuclear explosion helps test theory of moon's formation
By Annie Reisewitz, Univ. of California, San Diego, February 9, 2017
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/first-nuclear-explosion-helps-test-theory-moons-formation
Life on Europa may have been sparked by COMETS: Rocks
carrying biological material could have penetrated the
moon's thick crust to reach the oceans beneath
Venus Global GIS Mapping Application
USGS Astrogeology Science Center
https://webgis2.wr.usgs.gov/Venus_Global_GIS/
https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps
Venus Magellan SAR FMAP Left Look Global Mosaic 75m
Supernova Ashes Found in Fossils Hint at Extinction Event
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, August 18, 2016
http://www.space.com/33777-supernova-ash-found-in-fossils.html
Scientists Identify Supernova Ashes in Magnetic Fossils
Sputnik.News, http://sptnkne.ws/bWPg
Mars: More Earth-Like Than Moon-Like, Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 24, 2017
http://www.lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/2017/02/24geology_susko_scientificreports.php
In "We Have A Neighbor," Mrs. Webb wrote:
"Hi,"We have a neighboring planet
only 4 light years away. It's
small, earth-like, in the
habitable zone of its star,
yada-yada.
Everybody's going crazy...
Me too."
The paper is:
Anglada-Escudé, G., P. J. Amado, J. Barnes, and others, 2016, A
Meteorite researchers can make their own and better
topographic maps of their search / study areas in parts
of Alaska using GIS software such as Global Mapper and
GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System)
using newly available digital elevation models (DEMs).
NSF, NGA release first
Meteorite researchers can make their own and better
topographic maps of their search / study areas in parts
of Alaska using GIS software such as Global Mapper and
GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System)
using newly available digital elevation models (DEMs).
NSF, NGA release first
Arctic gives clues on worst mass extinction of life
University of Tromso (Universitetet i Tromsø - UiT)
August 24, 2016
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/16082400.htm
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-arctic-clues-worst-mass-extinction.html
Grasby, S. E., B. Beauchamp, and J. Knies,
For those people going to the February 9-12, 2017,
Tucson Gem & Mineral Show, the below, free PDF files,
provides information about the geology of the Tucson area.
Spencer, J. E., 2006, Geologist's Guide to the Core
Complex Geology Along the Catalina Highway, Tucson
Area, Arizona, open file
Glass bits, charcoal hint at 56-million-year-old space rock
Impact. Timing coincides with period of rapid warming
perhaps sparked by comet, Thomas Summer, Science News.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/glass-bits-charcoal-hint-56-million-year-old-space-rock-impact
Schaller, M.F., and others,
Scientists: No, the Rock You Found Is Not a Meteorite
Thousands of space rock fans want to verify their
meteorwrongs; ‘I don’t chat’ The wall Street Journal
http://www.wsj.com/articles/scientists-no-the-rock-you-found-is-not-a-meteorite-1473948988
Yours,
Paul H.
Some ancient Mars lakes formed long after others
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6619
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160915142043.htm
The paper is:
Wilson, S. A., A. D. Howard, J. M. Moore, and J. A. Grant,
2016 A Cold-Wet Mid-Latitude Environment on Mars
during the
Have signs of Martian life been obliterated by meteorite
blasts? Daily Mail, August 9, 2016
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3731884/Have-signs-Martian-life-obliterated-meteorite-blasts-Extreme-pressures-impact-wipe-organic-compounds-study-finds.html
Meteors might have wiped out
Where are all the large impact craters on Ceres? July 28, 2016
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/the-case-of-the-missing-ceres-craters
https://www.middaydaily.com/ceres-huge-impact-craters/25755/
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/232532-where-are-all-the-large-impact-craters-on-ceres
The paper
New methodology provides better size estimates of meteorite
impact craters. University of Western Ontario, August 8, 2016
http://mediarelations.uwo.ca/2016/08/05/new-methodology-provides-better-size-estimates-meteorite-impact-craters/
Fossilized rivers suggest warm, wet ancient Mars
University College London, August 23, 2016
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-fossilized-rivers-ancient-mars.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160823135135.htm
The paper is:
Davis, J. M., M. Balme, P. M. Grindrod, R. M. E. Williams and
New papers about the Allerød–Younger Dryas boundary are:
Andronikov, A.A., A. Van Hoesel, I. E. Andronikov, and W. Z. Hoek,2016,
Trace Element Distribution and Implications in Sediments Across the The
Allerod–Younger Dryas Boundary in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Geografiska Annaler: Series A,
New papers about the Allerød–Younger Dryas boundary are:
Andronikov, A.A., A. Van Hoesel, I. E. Andronikov, and W. Z. Hoek,2016,
Trace Element Distribution and Implications in Sediments Across the The
Allerod–Younger Dryas Boundary in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Geografiska Annaler: Series A,
How Did That Make It Through Peer Review? by Andrew Farke,
Andy Farke, Miscellaneous, Navel Gazing, Paleocommunity PLOS Blogs.
http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016/02/03/how-did-that-make-it-through-peer-review/
and
Allison, D. B., A. W. Brown, B. J. George, and K. A. Kaiser, 2016,
The article about geology songs is:
Showstack, Randy, 2016, Amoeba People Sing
Quirky Tunes About Geoscience. Eos. Vol. 97,
no. 18, pp. 8-9 https://eos.org/current-issues
and PDF
https://eos.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/15-Sept_magazine.pdf?cbb367
In the same issue, is “New Insights into
NASA's Amazing 2020 Mars Mission to Search for
Ancient Fossils --"Unlike Earth, Mars is a Beautifully
Preserved Fossil" The Daily Galaxy, October 19, 2016
For a review by Jason Colavito of Graham Hancock's latest
comments about the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, look at:
Graham Hancock Appears on Joe Rogan Podcast and Spends
Three and Half Hours Bashing Skeptics by Jason Colavito
Scientists Think They Finally Found Evidence of
Ancient Life on Mars. by Sage Lazzaro, Observer
http://observer.com/2016/11/scientists-think-they-finally-found-evidence-of-ancient-life-on-mars/
The paper is:
Ruff, S. W., and J. D. Farmer, 2016, Silica deposits on
Mars with features resembling
Update: Drilling of dinosaur-killing impact crater explains
buried circular hills by Eric Hand, Science News, Nov. 17, 2016
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/update-drilling-dinosaur-killing-impact-crater-explains-buried-circular-hills
Wendel, J., 2016, Cores from crater tied to dinosaur
The Mystery of Chevrons Revealed
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Talk
2014 Fall Meeting, Section: Natural Hazards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnjfhhdnAzk
Related links:
Michaela Spiske
https://independent.academia.edu/MichaelaSpiske
Garcia Garcia, A-M.., Spiske, M., Tsukamoto, S., and
Update: Drilling of dinosaur-killing impact crater explains
buried circular hills by Eric Hand, Science News, Nov. 17, 2016
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/update-drilling-dinosaur-killing-impact-crater-explains-buried-circular-hills
Wendel, J., 2016, Cores from crater tied to dinosaur
Subsurface map of moon reveals origin of mysterious impact
crater rings by Paul Voosen, Science News, Oct. 27, 2016
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/subsurface-map-moon-reveals-origin-mysterious-impact-crater-rings
Lunar impact: how the Moon’s Mare Orientale was formed
Astronomy Now,
McCafferty, 1995, A. E., Assessing the presence of a buried
meteor impact crater using geophysical data, south-central
Idaho Thesis, Colorado School of Mines. 1995.
https://dspace.library.colostate.edu/handle/11124/170341
https://dspace.library.colostate.edu/handle/11124/170341?show=full
Mars' Mega-Drought Revealed in Meteorite Rust
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has been used to
measure the weathering of meteorites on the Red
Planet, revealing just how little water there is on
the surface. Space, November 11, 2016
End-Permian mass extinction was not so massive
By Belinda Smith, Cosmos Magazine
https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/mass-extinctions-were-not-so-massive-study
US paleontologists states once the dust settled
following the 'great dying' around 250 million
years ago, nearly 20% of species
The moon has hundreds more craters than we thought
Daily News, October 12, 2016
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2108929-the-moon-has-hundreds-more-craters-than-we-thought/
How old is our Moon? Hundreds of previously unseen
craters could finally unlock its true age: New estimates
suggest 180
Chicxulub 'dinosaur crater' investigation begins in earnest
by Jonathan Amos, BBC News, October 11, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37625348
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Extraterrestrial Impact Preceded Ancient Global Warming Event
By Mary L. Martialay, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, October 13, 2016
http://news.rpi.edu/content/2016/10/13/extraterrestrial-impact-preceded-ancient-global-warming-event
Ancient Meteorite Impact Rained Debris On US East Coast
By
Massive crater under small Scottish town could be the
crash site of the first meteorite to hit the British Isles
Thought to be under the small town of Lairg, northern
Scotland, it be one of the 15 largest known craters.
By Press Association and Libby Plummer, Mail Online,
September 21, 2016
Big Diamonds Bring Scientists A Message From Superdeep Earth
NPR
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/15/505386423/big-diamonds-bring-scientists-a-message-from-superdeep-earth
Large, rare diamonds offer window into inner workings of Earth's mantle
The moon is older than scientists thought, UCLA-led
research team reports< UCLA Newsroom, January 11, 2017
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/the-moon-is-older-than-scientists-thought-ucla-led-research-team-reports
Scientists: Moon over the hill at 4.51 billion years old
By Marcia Dunn and
Study suggests Earth once had many moonlets — until they
merged to form the moon By Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/10/study-suggests-earth-once-had-many-moonlets-until-they-merged-to-form-the-moon/
How Earth's previous moons
Hi,
There are two new papers about the Younger Dryas
Impact Hypotheses
Studies refute hypothesis on what caused abrupt climate
change thousands of years ago, ScienceDaily, December 19, 2016
https://source.wustl.edu/2016/12/case-missing-diamonds/
Impact Crater Linked to Martian Tsunamis
By Paul Rincon, BBC News website, March 26, 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39394583
Water On Mars: Researchers Link Lomonosov
Crater To Ancient Martian Tsunamis by Avaneesh
IBT, March 26, 2017
Xinjiang Herdsman’s Fight for His Meteorite
Kazak rancher sues government for ownership
of a grounded shooting star.
Wang Lianzhang, March 22, 2017
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/xinjiang-farmer-and-government-tussle-over-meteorite-ownership
Also from China, the magical alternative universe
of
The discussion continues.
Discovery of widespread platinum may help solve Clovis
people mystery, University of South Carolina, March 9, 2017
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170309120656.htm
While slumming on Youtube, I came across
a really nice lecture on the formation of
terrestrial planets. It is:
The Formation of Terrestrial Planets -
the 2nd Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in
Planetary Geology Published on Oct 8, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMj9whiI31I
Fortunately, the
Ford, J.R.H., Orchiston, W. and Clendening, R., 2012.
The Wells Creek meteorite impact site and changing
views on impact cratering. Journal of Astronomical
History and Heritage, 15(3), pp. 159-178.
http://www.narit.or.th/en/files/2012JAHHvol15/2012JAHH...15..159F.pdf
Neveling, J., R. A. Gastaldo, and J. W. Geissman, 2016,
The Permo-Triassic Boundary in the Karoo Basin. Field
Guidebook for the Pre-3 trip, 35th International
Geological Congress, Cape Town, 2016
DNA clues to why woolly mammoth died out By Helen Briggs,
BBC News, March 2, 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39142941
The last, lonely woolly mammoths faced a 'genomic meltdown'
By Michael Price, Science News, March 2, 2017
I know that this is off-topic. However, it is not often that
a person finds a rock that is weirder than a meteorite.
Scientists cannot even agree whether it is a fossil or not.
The latest theory is that this rock is the fossil of the
T-Rex of earthworms. Go see the open access paper at:
Close shave from an undetected asteroid
By Eddie Irizarry in SPACE | July 25, 2017
http://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2017-oo1-close-pass-undetected
Scientists spot a new asteroid the size of a
passenger plane (but only three days After
it passed just 76,000 miles from Earth)
By Cheyenne
Hi,
Yesterday, I posted the link to apaper that argued
against there being a periodicity in Phanerozoic
impact cratering.
On the other side of the argument, I found some
papers that argued for a periodicity in Phanerozoic
impact cratering. They include:
Rampino, M.R., and K. Caldeira, 2017:
I garbled the URLS for the first article.
The untangled URLs are below.
Big asteroid to sweep close September
By Eddie Irizarry in Astronomy Essentials, August 13, 2017
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/asteroid-1981-et3-3122-florence-pass-earth-2017-binoculars.
Big asteroid to sweep close September
By Eddie Irizarry in Astronomy Essentials, August 13, 2017
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/asteroid-1981-et3-3122-florence-pass-earth-2017-binoculars.https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news198.html
"Asteroid 3122 Florence is the biggest near-Earth
Could asteroids bombard the Earth to cause a mass extinction in ten
million years?
Asteroids have hit Earth throughout its history, but there’s no way to
know when
the next big one is likely. Sanna Alwmark, Lund University, Cosmos,
Agust 14, 2017
Hi,
Below are some extended conference abstracts that I
found quite interesting. Hopefully, there are some papers
that are in preparation for publication to go with them.
Carling, P., Songtham, W., Tada, R., Tada, T. and Duangkrayon,
J., 2017, April. Effect of a Quaternary Meteoroid Impact in
Why Morocco loves its meteorites
Why have more space rocks been recovered in
Morocco than in other countries of a similar size?
It’s a great question for the world’s Asteroid Day
New Scientist, June 30, 2017
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2139323-why-morocco-loves-its-meteorites/
To save
Old Gold: SUI began with a bang
Upcoming solar eclipse prompts UI archivist
to revisit story of 1847 meteorite crash landing
David McCartney, Iowa Now, June 27,2017
https://now.uiowa.edu/2017/06/old-gold-sui-began-bang
Yours,
Paul H.
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The Niagara Falls of Mars, NASA, MRO, June 28, 2017
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21763/the-niagara-falls-of-mars
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Enormous Impact on Mars Could Have Created
Mysterious Group of Asteroids. The Mars trojans
may show a giant impact in its past. Popular Mechanics
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/news/a27319/enormous-asteroid-impact-mars-trojan-asteroids/
the paper is:
Polishook, D., S. A.
New law paves way for companies to mine asteroids
Mike Wehner, BGR July 16, 2017
http://bgr.com/2017/07/16/space-mining-asteroid-law/
Luxembourg is the First Nation to offer Legal Framework for
Space Resources Utilization. Space Resources.LU, July 13, 2017
People, who are using eclipse glasses to view the upcoming
eclipse, need to be careful about counterfeit eclipse glasses.
Solar-eclipse fever means counterfeit glasses are flooding
Amazon’s market Quartz, by Elijah Wolfson, July 27, 2107
If you die via asteroid, this is how it will happen
It’s incredibly unlikely. But what if?
by Brian Resnick July 3, 2017
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/3/15903154/asteroid-death-one-chart
The paper is;
Rumpf, C. M., H. G. Lewis, and P. M. Atkinson
(2017), Asteroid impact effects
How Frogs Benefited From The Dinosaurs' Extinction
Facebook. The two-Way, NPR, July 3, 2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/03/535383841/how-frogs-benefited-from-the-dinosaurs-extinction
Extinction event that wiped out dinosaurs cleared way
for frogs, Florida Museum of Natural
A recent paper in Mediterranean Archaeology and
Archaeometry discusses the Göbekli Tepewith
Site in Turkey in the context of the Younger Dryas
Impact hypothesis. It is:
Sweatman MB, Tsikritsis D. Decoding Göbekli Tepewith
Archaeoastronomy: What Does the Fox Say?. Mediterranean
Archaeology and
Signal may be from first 'exomoon' By Paul Rincon
BBC News, Science & Environment, July 27, 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40741545
The paper is:
Teachey, A., D.M. Kipping, and A.R. Schmitt, 2017,
HEK VI: On the Dearth of Galilean Analogs in Kepler
and the Exomoon Candidate
The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis debate
continues with papers that are published both
supporting and disputing it. The debate is a binary
one with one side either denying or supporting
an extreme event capable of causing extinction
and climatic change. The ambiguous and
inconsistent nature of
Giant mud balls roamed the early solar system
Rethinking early asteroids’ rockiness could solv
some meteorite mysteries. By Lisa Grossman
Science News, August 4, 2017
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/giant-mud-balls-roamed-early-solar-system
Early solar system may have slung giant mud balls.
Comic-Con, a Meteorite Petting Zoo, and a $10,000 VIP Package
— All for 2 Minutes of Darkness, The Chronicle Of Higher Education
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Comic-Con-a-Meteorite-Petting/240798
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Make history during the solar eclipse as a citizen scientist
by Anna Kusmer, KQED August 16, 2017
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/make-history-solar-eclipse-citizen-scientist/
Solar Eclipse 2017: Life Respond
https://www.calacademy.org/citizen-science/solar-eclipse-2017
NASA Invites You to
While searching the Internet I came across an online
and downloadable PDF file of:
Nordyke, M.D., 1961. Proceedings of the Geophysical
Laboratory-Lawrence Radiation Laboratory Cratering
Symposium (No. UCRL6438PT12). LLNL (Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA
(United
Below is a recent paper that a direct connection
with one line of evidence for the Younger Dryas Impact.
Roperch, P., Gattacceca, J., Valenzuela, M., Devouard,
B., Lorand, J.P., Arriagada, C., Rochette, P., Latorre, C.
and Beck, P., 2017. Surface vitrification caused by natural
fires in Late
Looks like a major malware attack is in progress.
So you-all be careful out there.
Malware, described in leaked NSA
documents, cripples computers worldwide
Washington Post, May 12, 2017
Hi,
A paper about an attempt to use Google Earth to hunt for
impact craters is:
Chaabout, S., Aoudjehane, H.C., Reimold, W.U., Baratoux, D.
and Youbi, N., 2015. Prospecting for possible impact
structures in Morocco. Journal of African Earth Sciences,
112, pp.339-352.
PDF file:
Below is a paper about the types of Uniformitarianism.
Romano, M., 2015. Reviewing the term uniformitarianism
in modern Earth sciences. Earth-Science Reviews, 148, pp. 65-76.
PDF file:
Hi,
Below is an interesting paper:
Marriner, N., Morhange, C. and Skrimshire, S., 2010.
Geoscience meets the four horsemen?: Tracking the
rise of neocatastrophism. Global and Planetary
Change, 74(1), pp.43-48.
Interesting open access paper on mass extinctions.
Jones, D. S., A. M. Martini, D. A. Fike, and K. Kaiho, 2017,
A volcanic trigger for the Late Ordovician mass extinction?
Mercury data from south China and Laurentia. Geology
v. 45; no. 7; p. 631–634
Volcanic eruptions triggered dawn of the dinosaurs
(Huge pulses of volcanic activity are likely to have
played a key role in triggering the end Triassic mass
extinction, which set the scene for the rise and age
of the dinosaurs, new Oxford University research
has found.)
Distance at which supernova would spark mass
extinctions on Earth, University of Kansas, May 11, 2017
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/17055935.htm
http://news.ku.edu/2017/05/08/research-increases-distance-which-supernova-would-spark-mass-extinctions-earth
What’s a safe distance
Popular writer and fringe archaeologist Graham
Hancock has written a new and extended commentary
about the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. He is quite
unhappy about he believes that he and other proponents
of this hypothesis have been treated by so-called
“gradualists” whoever they are, within
Lajeunesse, P., Duchesne, M.J., St-Onge, G., Locat, J., Higgins,
M., Sanfacon, R. and Ortiz, J., 2016. The Corossol Structure:
a glaciated crater of possible impact origin in the
northwestern Gulf of St Lawrence, eastern Canada.
Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 46(1), pp.127-128.
PDF file:
Lajeunesse, P., Duchesne, M.J., St-Onge, G., Locat, J., Higgins,
M., Sanfacon, R. and Ortiz, J., 2016. The Corossol Structure:
a glaciated crater of possible impact origin in the
northwestern Gulf of St Lawrence, eastern Canada.
Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 46(1), pp.127-128.
PDF file:
Massive craters formed by methane blow-outs from
the Arctic sea floor, June 1, 2017
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-massive-craters-methane-blow-outs-arctic.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170601151803.htm
the paper is;
K. Andreassen, A. Hubbard, M. Winsborrow, H. Patton,
S.
How hard did it rain on Mars?
http://earthsky.org/space/how-hard-did-it-rain-on-mars
https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/how-hard-did-it-rain-on-mars
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/solar-system/how-hard-did-it-rain-on-ancient-mars-2205201723/
The
Wow! mystery signal from space finally explained
Bob Yirka, June 7, 2017
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-wow-mystery-space.html
http://planetary-science.org/research/the-wow-signal/
Paris, 2017, Hydrogen Line Observations of Cometary
Spectra at 1420 MHZ , Journal of the Washington Academy of
Falkland Islands basin shows signs of being among world's
largest craters, New York University, May 4, 2017
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170504131658.htm
Falkland Islands basin shows signs of being among world's
largest craters, Engineering, Science and Technology Research
New
Marriner, N., Morhange, C. and Skrimshire, S., 2010.
Geoscience meets the four horsemen?: Tracking the rise
of neocatastrophism. Global and Planetary Change, 74(1), pp.43-48.
Rumpf, C.M., Lewis, H.G. and Atkinson, P.M., 2017. Asteroid
impact effects and their immediate hazards for human populations.
Geophysical Research Letters. First published: 19 April 2017
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GL073191/full
Stern, R.J., 2016. Is plate tectonics needed to evolve technological
species on exoplanets?. Geoscience Frontiers, 7(4), pp. 573-580.
Abstract:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987115300062
PDF file:
There is a new paper containing research about the
Missoula (Spokane) megafloods that contain bad news
for those few proponents of the Younger Dryas impact
hypothesis, who argue that these megafloods were
a single megaflood and caused by a hypothetical Younger
Dryas Impact.
It is:
Balbas, A.M.,
Analysis of Martian meteorites has uncovered 90 million
years' worth of new information about one of the red plan
PhysOrg, October 4, 2017
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-analysis-martian-meteorites-uncovered-million.html
https://www.universetoday.com/137437/meteorite-came-volcano-mars/
The paper
This is off topic but should be useful and of interest
given current events.
Here’s what the world’s most accurate weather model
predicts for Irma. A potentially catastrophic hurricane
will approach southern Florida this weekend.
Eric Berger, Ars Technica , September 6, 2017
Scientists find fossilised cosmic dust in white cliffs of Dover
by Colin Smith, PhysOrg, September 7, 2017
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_7-9-2017-10-59-59
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-scientists-fossilised-cosmic-white-cliffs.html
Martin D.
Ancient Meteorite Impact Produced Highest Natural
Temperature Ever On Earth, Extreme Tech, Sept. 18, 2017
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/255984-ancient-meteorite-impact-produced-highest-natural-temperature-ever-earth
Meteorite Impact Caused the Highest Temperature
ever Recorded on Earth's
Large meteorite impacts drove plate-tectonic processes
on the early Earth, PhysOrg, September 26, 2017
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-large-meteorite-impacts-drove-plate-tectonic.html
Did meteorites create the Earth’s tectonic plates?
Cosmos, September 26, 2017
Kring, David A., Philippe Claeys, Sean P.S. Gulick,
Joanna V. Morgan and Gareth S. Collins, 2017,
Chicxulub and the Exploration of Large Peak-Ring
Impact Craters through Scientific Drilling
GSA Today Volume 27, Number 10, pp. 4-8.
http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/science/G352A/article.htm
Chen, J., Elmi, C., Goldsby, D. and Gieré, R., 2017. Generation
of shock lamellae and melting in rocks by lightning‐induced
shock waves and electrical heating. Geophysical Research
Letters. First published: 9 September 2017
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL073843
A great paper about classic Siberian mammoth bone beds.
Nikolskiy, P.A., Basilyan, A.E., Sulerzhitsky, L.D.
and Pitulko, V.V., 2010. Prelude to the extinction:
revision of the Achchagyi–Allaikha and Berelyokh
mass accumulations of mammoth. Quaternary International,
219(1), pp. 16-25.
Here's the blueprint for a global fireball observatory
– and why we need one by Luke Daly, Gareth Collins
and Martin Suttle, The Conversation, August 23, 2017
http://theconversation.com/heres-the-blueprint-for-a-global-fireball-observatory-and-why-we-need-one-82798
In a previous post, Dirk wrote:
"Another note on faked impactites -
India is now producing faceted fake
moldavite."
An appropriate article is:
Moldavites: Natural Or Fake? by Jaroslav Hyršl
Gem and Geminology, Spring 2015, Vol. 51,
no. 1, pp. 103-104.
Below is a very interesting talk about tsunamis
and how they are created. One quite interesting
point that came up during the lecture and questions
is that asteroid and meteorite impacts are quite
ineffective at creating tsunamis and the tsunamis
threat from them has been greatly overestimated.
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