10 m broken rock hill with black glazes, W of Rancho Alegre Road, S of Coyote Trail, W of Hwy 14, S of Santa Fe, New Mexico, tour of 50 photos 1 MB size each via DropBox: Rich Murray 2011.07.28 2011.08.03

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10 m broken rock hill with black glazes, W of Rancho Alegre Road, S of
Coyote Trail, W of Hwy 14, S of Santa Fe, New Mexico, tour of 50
photos 1 MB size each via DropBox: Rich Murray 2011.07.28 2011.08.03
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
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[ Note: this long post serves to provide detailed evidence for shared
discussions about the effects on ground rocks of very hot, high
pressure gas jets from multiple clusters of air bursts of already
highly fragmented debris in solar orbit from an initially large mostly
ice comet. ]

What a great pleasure for me to have such an playful, informed,
intelligent, helpful, many-faceted response!

http://kauscience.k12.hi.us/~ted/Craters/Sailor_Hat.html

It was a real treat to see the photos of the shocked, melted, and
glazed rocks, which were within the initial high temperature, high
pressure fireball from .0005 KT TNT (500 tons TNT) for a few seconds
-- I've been finding very similar rocks on the large volcanic plateau
just W of Santa Fe, Caja del Rio, which extends from the La Bajada 200
m dropoff SW of Santa Fe to just E of the Rio Grande canyon, where
White Rock bedroom community lies on the W side:

1. a surface litter of freshly cracked rocks of all sizes

2. lava rocks still in place, horizontal or vertical, cracked and
fractured, that have a lighter color very bubbly interior structure,
which shades into a dense compacted subsurface of 1-10 cm thickness,
with the surface highly melted, and often with a metallic lustre,
usually very black and blue-black, sometimes with iridescent colors, a
glaze of 1-30 mm

3. rocks that seem thoroughly melted and twisted

4. concave depressions and fractures, suggesting to me blast effects

5. 1-10 m rocks that seem thoroughly cracked, often tilted and tossed

6. bubbly red lava may become 1 cm to 1 m dense, darker red chert-like rocks

I'll send you a photo from a dramatic site by a public road, W of road
14, S of Santa Fe, New Mexico:

~10 m broken rock hill with black glazes above old mine, just W of
Rancho Allegre Road, just S of Coyote Trail (on E side),  W of Hwy 14,
S of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in area of expensive homes, ranches,
artists, movie sets.

35.479730  -106.085926  1.865 km el top

[ The October 1996 Google Earth historical imagery has a nice BW image
with the same resolution of about 1 m, while Google Maps Satellite
view indicates that this site is on the NE edge of a 7 km wide
volcanic region, with unusual blue-black, red-brown, and white areas
-- possibly all triggered by a concentration of directed Boslough jets
from air burst ice comet fragments... ]

Rich Murray and Michael H. Barron studied this site from 10:35 AM to
11:25 AM Friday December 10, 2010, taking 50 photos.

The various shades of brown to blue-black glazes, 1-3 mm thick, coat
the oddly rough, sharp textures of the ordinary lighter color bedrock,
which seems to be in place, fractured into 1-5 m pieces.

My interpretation is that a dense Boslough jet, from a 35 km/sec
mostly ice comet fragment air burst, at about 45 deg, with extremely
complex chaotic flows at high pressures and up to 5800 deg K,
fractured, ablated, and glazed the bedrock in a brief process, perhaps
a few seconds, in early Holocene times, since the ground litter has
many sharp fragments, not yet softened by normal erosion.

This gestalt pattern of ablation is easily found in all directions
within the 160 km radius of my own field visits since November, 2008.

In mutual service,  Rich Murray
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1. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01431-20101210-1036.jpg
10:36 AM  .816 MB 2048X1024 px BlackBerry 3.2 MPx camera December 10
2010 Friday [ double-click the image for higher resolution and size ]
my silver 2001 Suzuki Esteem SW parked facing S by W side of Rancho
Alegre Road, my friend Michael H. Barron walking over the ground, as
usual littered with sharp rock fragments, towards a enticing 10 m high
outcrop of fractured level bedrock -- no fences or warning signs
35.479730  -106.085926  1.865 km el top

2. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01432-20101210-1037.jpg
10:37 AM  .939 MB
a filled in small mine entrance on the E side of the hill close to the
W side of the road

3. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01433-20101210-1040.jpg
10:40 AM  1.04 MB
fractured 1-2 m bedrock blocks in place, with dark glazes

4. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01434-20101210-1041.jpg
10:41 AM  1.04 MB
closer to the middle of the previous view -- a voice whispers from the
back floor of my mind, "Not from a point source in the air like a
single hydrogen bomb, but by complex chaotic fractal gas dynamics at
high pressures (10-100 atm?) and up to 5800 deg K (Mark Boslough
simulations at Sandia Labs in Albuquerque of directed plasma jets from
fragmentation of stony asteroids many kilometers above the ground)
from many sources, cracking these bedrocks, invading the cracks,
eroding them very rapidly into wide crevices, leaving various melt
glaze deposits as a final calling card..."

5. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01435-20101210-1042.jpg
10:42 AM  1.22 MB
closer view, my trusty red ballpoint pen is 15.5X1 cm size -- the many
colors of complex surface layers on this vertical E face are most
eloquent...

6. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01436-20101210-1042.jpg
10:42 AM  1.09 MB
very close, far older than hieroglyphics from ancient Egypt, these
mysterious signs... won't it be fun to learn to read them?

7. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01437-20101210-1043.jpg
10:43 AM 1.29 MB
a complex area -- the 12X3 cm size dark depression in the center has 2
prominent ridges across its space, which I call a "pawprint",
resulting from counter rotating cylinder vortexes of turbulent gas
that, back to back, ablate the hole and raise the ridges, as shown in
many Boslough simulations -- pawprints can have many toes, and be many
kilometers in size... the range of ablation forms is limitless...
wonderful art, challenging science... first we learn to see letters,
then words, then sentences, then whole narratives... we are highly
evolved to enjoy deciphering subtle tracks and trails in complex
backgrounds -- playful experience is essential -- it'd be fun to have
a group play with looking at these views on a large screen, making
videoes of their exploratory learnings

8. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01438-20101210-1043.jpg
10:43 AM 1.26 MB
closer view of pawprint, turned to L

9. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01439-20101210-1044.jpg
10:44 AM 1.25 MB
similar view of pawprint

10. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01440-20101210-1044.jpg
10:44 AM 1.25 MB
wider view of pawprint, view shifted to lower R

11. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01441-20101210-1045.jpg
10.45 AM 1.18 MB

12. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01442-20101210-1047.jpg
10:47 AM  1.03 MB
ground level of strata on SE corner

13. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01443-20101210-1048.jpg
10:48 AM  1.08 MB
close view of middle layer of strata

14. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01444-20101210-1048.jpg
10:48 AM  1.13 MB
closer view of middle layer of strata, thin black glaze

15. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01445-20101210-1050.jpg
10:50 AM  1.01 MB
view of top strata

16. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01447-20101210-1051.jpg
10:51 AM  1.08 MB
close view of thin black glaze

17. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01448-20101210-1051.jpg
10:51 AM  1.11 MB
closer view of thin black glaze in upper R of previous view

18. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01449-20101210-1052.jpg
10:52 AM  1.10 MB
slant view of thin black glaze, towards red ballpoint pen to L of previous view

19. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01450-20101210-1053.jpg
10:53 AM  1.12 MB
close view of thin black glaze at top R of previous view, red
ballpoint moved to the L

20. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01461-20101210-1053.jpg
10:53 AM  1.18 MB
closer view of thin black glaze

21. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01452-20101210-1054.jpg
10:54 AM  1.01 MB
close view of .75 m broken bedrock with light interior color and
thicker black surface glaze on rough surface

22. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01453-20101210-1055.jpg
10:55 AM  1.09 MB
closer view of thicker black glaze on rough surface

23. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01454-20101210-1055.jpg
10:55 AM  1.02 MB
closest view of thicker black glaze on rough surface

24.  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01455-20101210-1056.jpg
10:56 AM  1.06 MB
close view of thick complex black glaze on 2 m boulder at top strata

25.  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01456-20101210-1056.jpg
10:56 AM  1.04 MB
closer view of thick complex black glaze

26.  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01457-20101210-1057.jpg
10:57 AM  1.07 MB
closer view, a little to the L of the previous view, of thick complex
black glaze

27.  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01458-20101210-1057.jpg
10:57 AM  1.10 MB
the previous view, wider, turned to the R, so upside down, by accident

28.  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01459-20101210-1058.jpg
10:58 AM  1.09 MB
previous view, turned right side up, showing slick blue-black glaze
and flat pink-blue glaze, both on pitted surfaces

29.  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01460-20101210-1059.jpg
10:59 AM  1.09 MB
previous view, even wider, turned R

30. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01461-20101210-1059.jpg
10:59 AM  1.18 MB
blue black glaze on surface with very sharp, angular, deep pitting

31. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01462-20101210-1059.jpg
10:59 AM 1.10 MB
much wider view of previous view, a 2 meter tilted rock on the top NE
corner of the strata, showing Rancho Alegre Road and the far away
Sangre de Christo Mountains E of Santa Fe

32. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01463-20101210-1100.jpg
11:00 AM  1.06 MB
close view of L of previous view, showing another top tilted block
with black glaze on rough, pitted surface

33. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01464-20101210-1100.jpg
11:00 AM  1.13 MB
closer view of previous view

34. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01465-20101210-1101.jpg
11:01 AM  1:13 MB

35. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01466-20101210-1108.jpg
11:08 AM  1:04 MB
another top surface pitted rock with black and purple glazes on sharp,
rough broken surfaces

36. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01467-20101210-1110.jpg
11:10 AM   .989  MB
2 m rock with large patches of black glaze

37. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01468-20101210-1111.jpg
11.11 AM   .990 MB
close view of large patches of black glaze

38. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01469-20101210-1112.jpg
11:12 AM   1.08 MB
closer view of large patches of black glaze

39. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01470-20101210-1112.jpg
11:12 AM  1.06 MB
another wide view of 2 m rock with large patches of black glaze

40. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01471-20101210-1113.jpg
11:13 AM  .970 MB
red-brown glaze on 1.3 m ground bedrock, along with blue-black glaze
on higher strata bedrock

41. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01472-20101210-1117.jpg
11:17 AM   .990 MB
black glaze on top part of 2 m rock on ground level

42. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01473-20101210-1122.jpg
11:22 AM   1.11 MB
some blasted 1 meter blocks on NE top

43. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01474-20101210-1122.jpg
11:22 AM  1.08 MB
blasted 2 m bedrock with some black glaze

44. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01475-20101210-1123.jpg
11:23 AM   1.00 MB
close view of R side of previous view of black glaze

45. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01476-20101210-1123.jpg
11:23 AM   1.11 MB
closer view of previous view of black glaze

46. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01477-20101210-1124.jpg
11:24 AM   1.15 MB
view from top down along bedrock boulders towards sealed small mine
entrance and Rancho Alegre Road

47. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01478-20101210-1125.jpg
11:25 AM   1.09 MB
view from top to S

48. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01479-20101210-1125.jpg
11:25 AM  1.00 MB
view from top to W of red lava hillside and far small mountains

49. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01480-20101210-1129.jpg
11:29 AM  1.09 MB
view NW up SE slope of tumbled 1-2 m bedrock boulders to top edge

50. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990358/GEO/GEO20101121%20Rancho%20Alegre%20Road%2C%20S%20of%20Santa%20Fe%20NM%2050%20pic/IMG01481-20101210-1130.jpg
11:30 AM  1.00 MB
further to the E, view NW up SE slope of tumbled 1-2 m bedrock
boulders to top edge


vast geoablation in Argentina, craters from SW to NE -- Cox re
Boslough bursts: Rich Murray 2011.07.31
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Impact melt formation by low-altitude airburst processes, evidence from
small terrestrial craters and numerical modeling, H E Newsom & MBE Boslough
2008 Mar 2p abstract: Rich Murray 2010.11.17
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3 times more downward energy from directed force of meteor airburst in 3D
simulations by Mark B. E. Boslough, Sandia Lab 2007.12.17: Rich Murray
2010.08.30
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[Extract]

http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:YY6MFUns_CkJ:scholar.google.com/+%22Mark+B\
oslough%22,+impacts&hl=en&as_sdt=10000000000
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"Dr. Boslough has also shown that an LAA [ Low Altitude Airburst ]
from a ~100 meter diameter NEO
melted sand into glass across a region about 10 km in diameter during Libyan
Desert Glass impact ~35 million years ago.
During this event the LAA's fireball settled onto parts of Egypt and Libya
for about a minute with temperatures approaching 5,000 K.
Its hypersonic blast wave extended radially for about 100 kilometers."


ground views of over 100 .1-.5 km shallow (ice comet fragment bursts)
craters, Bajada del Diablo, Argentina (.78-.13 Ma BP) [42.87 S 67.47 W]
Rogelio D Acevedo et al, Geomorphology 2009 Sept: Rich Murray 2010.03.28
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.htm
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BS MIT 1964, history and physics,
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