Dear Friends, A paper about a proposed Pleistocene impact in the western Desert of Egypt is in press in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
It is: Osinski, G. R., H. P. Schwarcz, J. R. Smith, M. R. Kleindienst, A. F.C. Haldemann and C. S. Churcher. in Press, Evidence for a 200-100 ka meteorite impact in the Western Desert of Egypt. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. available online December 2006 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0012821X This paper argues that unusual silicate glasses found near the Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt is the result of either a "cratering event or a large aerial burst", which occurred about 100,000 to 200,000 year ago according to Ar/Ar dating and geoarcaheological evidence. Some web pages: 1. Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt http://epsc.wustl.edu/~kieniewicz/dakhleh_oasis.htm 2. Excavations at Mut el-Kharab, Dakhleh Oasis http://arts.monash.edu.au/archaeology/excavations/dakhleh/index.html http://arts.monash.edu.au/archaeology/excavations/dakhleh/mut-el-kharab/index.html 3. Haldemann, A. F. C., M. R. Kleindienst, C. S. Churcher, J. R. Smith, H. Schwarcz, K. Markham, and G. Osinski, 2005, Mapping Impact Modified Sediments: Subtle Remote-Sensing Signatures of the Dakhleh Oasis Catastrophic Event, Western Desert, Egypt. American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #37, #17.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.648 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005DPS....37.1703H Yours, Paul H. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
