Tuesday Meteor Night 7 pm tonight, Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe, Jan 19, Rich Murray with 10x12 screen on two extensive websites by Dennis Cox and by Tim McElvain: Rich Murray 2010.01.19

[Rich Murray]

Meteor Night 7 pm tonight, Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe, Jan 19, Rich Murray
with 10x12 screen on two extensive websites by Dennis Cox and by Tim
McElvain: Rich Murray 2010.01.19
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.htm
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/36
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awesome evidence (Google Earth images, stereo pairs, some videos)
from Mexico to Canada for 500 km comet rubble pile air impacts
12950 BP -- Dennis Cox: Rich Murray 2010.01.13
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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exact Carolina Bay crater locations, RB Firestone, A West, et al,
two YD reviews, 2008 June, 2009 Nov,
also 3 upcoming abstracts: Rich Murray 2009.11.14
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
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http://www.impactstructure.net/working-hypothesis.html

Thornton H. "Tim" McElvain  [hidden email]

My present working hypothesis is that there was a mid-Tertiary
impact of a comet or asteroid that was pulled apart by the earth's
gravity and resembled the Shoemaker-Levi comets impact of Jupiter.
This enormous impact event materially affected the formation of the
Southern Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau.
This working hypothesis is a very broad brush history and
obviously erroneous in the details.

Hubble Photograph of the Shoemaker-Levi Comet before it
impacted Jupiter
The progress of my research and exploration for impact craters
and shock metamorphism in the Southern Rocky Mountains,
and Colorado Plateau has created a picture of the area that
does not fit any of the present interpretations of the geologic
history of this province.
Over the past ten years as the enormity of the evidence began
to accumulate I had to develop a working hypothesis to help me
put everything into perspective.
This hypothesis assumes a very large comet or asteroid
(dirty snowball) impact created an impact crater consisting of
millions of impacts by objects varying in size from large bolides
to dust, all of which resulted in a giant crater
some 1000 kilometers in width, and, depending on how far the
earths gravitational field extended, the comet or asteroid the
length could vary from 1000 kilometers to a chain impact two
or more thousand kilometers in length.
The proposed impact virtually blasted away or helped to
remove huge volumes of the sediment from Mid-Tertiary down
into the Precambrian, followed by isostatic readjustment that
activated old faults and zones of weakness resulting in the
present topography.
Another interesting fact that I believe helps support my theory
is that some of the structures on the western edge of the crater
over print the Sevier Thrust Fault, which would date them
post Laramide Orogeny, and not associated with the
thrust faulting.

...On the digital elevation map D. below I have placed yellow
circles where I have found evidence of shock metamorphism
and other corroborating evidence of extra terrestrial impact.
It is difficult to date some of these proposed impact structures,
but many of them disturbed Eocene and earlier formations.
The Sierra Madera structure has been dated as a
Mid-Tertiary structure.
There is a major Mid-Tertiary angular unconformity throughout
this area.
The latest intense mountain building and rifting began
about Mid-Tertiary, and a major period of volcanism also started
about this time.
The orange dots on the map are placed where I have collected
samples of aeolian sand containing grains of quartz with possible
PDF's at the base of the Ogallala Formation which I believe is
distal ejecta and Mid-Tertiary in age....


http://www.impactstructure.net/proposed-impact-structure.html

Impact Structures

# Article Title
1 Santa Fe Impact Structure, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2 Iron Axis Structures, St. George, Utah
3 Pecos Structure, Pecos, New Mexico
4 La Sal Mountains Structure, Moab, Utah
5 Abajo Mountain Structure, Blanding, Utah
6 Henry Mountain Structure, Hanksville, Utah
7 Cerro Blanco Structure, Gallina, New Mexico
8 El Capitan Structure, Lincoln, New Mexico
9 Emory Caldera, Mimbres, New Mexico
10 Split Mountain Anticline, Dinosaur National Park,
Utah and Colorado
11 Upheaval Dome, Moab, Utah
12 Sierra Madiera Impact Structure, Fort Stocton, Texas

http://www.impactstructure.net/proposed-impact-structure/13-pecos-structure-pecos-new-mexico.html

Southern Rocky Mountain and Colorado Plateau Impact Event
Thornton H. (Tim) McElvain <[hidden email]>

Home
Proposed Impact Structure
Corraborating Evidence
Distal Ejecta
Working Hypothesis
Pecos Structure, Pecos, New Mexico

In the early fall of 1998 after studying the
Rochouart Impact Structure in France,
I suspected that a bolide impact may have caused the complex
geology in the vicinity of our home near Pecos New Mexico.
I began collecting data on what I now believe is a deeply eroded,
complex impact structure, approximately 15 kilometers in
diameter, the center of which is located
approximately 2.5 miles north of Pecos, NM....

...The presence of other suspected impact structures probably
coeval with the Pecos Structure inspired me to widen my search,
which continued to expand into what I believe was a major
impact event that in some way participated in the uplift of the
Southern Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau.
This concept is hard to swallow, but this conclusion has been
forced upon me by the scope of the evidence I have found....

...Microscopic Evidence

PLANAR MICROSTRUCTURES
I have found planar structures in some grains of Pennsylvanian
sandstone.
Most of the quartz grains have one set of planar structures
but I have found up to three sets in some grains.
The grains with planar micro-structures are found in porous
and permeable Pennsylvanian sandstone beds.

Figure 20 - Quartz sand grain with 1 set of PM's,
field of view 0.25 mm.

Figure 21 - Same grain illustrated in Figure 17 above
illuminated with cross polarized light.

Figure 22 - Quartz sand grain with 1 primary set of PM's
and the hint of another.

The following histogram of the frequency of angle of the pole of
planar microstructures to the c-axis resembles similar histograms
from known impact craters if one accounts for the shift of higher
angles probably caused by the concentration of the shock wave
in porous sandstone formations.
This is my first attempt at measuring and indexing these angles,
and I am not completely comfortable with the results.

The final verdict on whether the Pecos Structure is an impact
structure or not awaits the verification that the
planar microstructures (PM's) found in the crater are actually
planar deformation features (PDF's)....

Copyright © 2010 Thornton H. (Tim) McElvain. All Rights Reserved.
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nanodiamond evidence for 12,900 BP Clovis extinction impact,
Santa Rosa Island, discussion on Scientific American website,
Carolina Bay type craters east of Las Vegas, NM:
Rich Murray 2009.09.15
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.htm
Friday, July 24, 2009
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widespread Carolina Bay type craters from Clovis comet
12,900 Ya BP? -- 0.7 M long NS crater with fractured
red sandstone on SW rim, CR C 53A, 20 miles E of
Las Vegas, NM: Rich Murray 2009.06.08
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.htm
Monday, June 8, 2009
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Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology,
BS MIT 1964, history and physics,
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