[meteorite-list] Big Bang in Antarctica - Killer CraterFoundUnderIce

[Gerald Flaherty]

YIPEES!! 250my is an infinitesmally small geologic frame.
I prefer contemplating the theoritcal lunar origin.
similarly catastrophic but at a much SAFER time lapse.
Jerry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Gerald Flaherty" <grf2 at verizon.net>; "Meteorite Mailing List" 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 1:47 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Big Bang in Antarctica - Killer 
CraterFoundUnderIce


> Hi,
>
>    Actually, I like it too. Except that I favor
> the idea of the shock waves from the impact
> focusing on the far side of the planet and causing
> mantle plumes to break through and basalt to
> flood there. The Moon shows faint evidence of this
> happening there, but Mercury has a huge area
> of "chaotic terrain" directly opposite the biggest
> impact, the Caloris Basin.
>    These really big impacts are so far out of
> our experience that it's really difficult to imagine,
> even using mathematical models, what could
> result from them.
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gerald Flaherty" <grf2 at verizon.net>
> To: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>; "Meteorite Mailing 
> List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 5:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Big Bang in Antarctica - Killer 
> CraterFoundUnderIce
>
>
>> by punching through the Earth's crust, thus tying
>> three opposing theories (impacts, basalt floods, and poisonous
>> gases) together as one unified theory,
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Sterling K. Webb"
>> I've always had this idea tucked in the back of my head. Kinda like a 
>> "perforated" coastline post Pangea. But it's too scarey to dwell on if 
>> there's ANY truth in it!!!
>> Jerry Flaherty
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