[meteorite-list] Re: Discovery of a huge impact site in East Jordan

[Paul]

drtanuki (Dirk) wrote:
“Stefan and List, 
Thank you Stefan! That is virtually what I have. 
The Google coordinates I have been studying for 
almost three months are 31.025349N,36.482491E 
measured at the centre of the crater. The diameter 
that I get using the google measure is 5.8Km 
for the outer ring. The central uplift I have not 
measured.”

I was looking at the 1968 El Azraq Sheet for the 1:250, 000 
scale “Geologische Karte von Jordanien” (Geological map 
of Jordan), Deutsche Geologische Mission in Jordanien) : 
Hanover, Federal Republic of Germany. This geologic map 
clearly shows a very well defined circular uplift of 
Cretaceous marls, bituminous limestones, cherts, dolomites, 
and so forth surrounded by Eocene to Paleocene cherty 
limestones, marls, and nummulitic limestones at the precise
center of the proposed East Jordan impact site. In addition, 
the same map shows a quite well developed ring of faults,
which  completely and almost perfectly surrounding the 
circular uplift of Cretaceous strata within the Paleogene 
carbonates. As shown in this map, this feature certainly 
looks like an impact structure. I guess in the late 1960’s, 
geologists had not yet started thinking in terms of impact 
structures.

Paul H.

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