[meteorite-list] The impactite bed

[E.P. Grondine]

Hi Dirk - 

Yes. Here you go: 

http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109768&org=NSF&from=news

Ed

--- drtanuki <drtanuki at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Ed,
>   Any other sources for images?  My computer will
> not
> allow me to download the player files.  Dirk
> 
> 
> --- "E.P. Grondine" <epgrondine at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ross - 
> > 
> > I guess you missed the show:
> > 
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1GCgOI3B1o
> > 
> > The black impactite layer is pretty amazing - I
> > never
> > expected it to be that dense or clearly obvious to
> > the
> > naked eye - my guess is that it extends throughout
> > other sandstone formations in the region - 
> > 
> > The only KT impactite samples that I have seen
> were
> > at
> > the Smithsonian, and came from the deep sea bed. 
> > But
> > we've all seen the impactite layers from Italy
> that
> > the Alvarez's sampled.
> > 
> > I don't know of any exposed Chesapeake Bay
> impactite
> > layers, but...
> > 
> > good hunting, 
> > E.P. Grondine
> > Man and Impact in the Americas
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >      
> >
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