[meteorite-list] Bad Science on ancient meteorite impactor?

[Paul]

In “Bad Science on ancient meteorite impactor?”, it
was stated by McCartney Taylor:

“I don't agree with most of these conclusions. I motion to have this
work peer reviewed by meteoriticists. Do I hear a second?”

At http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/uob-cct033108.php 
and paraphrased in thttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/31/kofels_asteroid/
it was stated:

“The giant landslide centred at Köfels in Austria 
is 500m thick and five kilometres in diameter
and has long been a mystery since geologists
first looked at it in the 19th century. The 
conclusion drawn by research in the middle 
20th century was that it must be due to a 
very large meteor impact because of the 
evidence of crushing pressures and explosions.”

The impact theory for the formation of the Köfels landslide has 
been discredited by various published papers. They include:

Sorensen, S.-A., and Berthold Bauer, 2003, On the dynamics of 
the Köfels sturzstrom. Geomorphology, vol. 54, no. 1-2, 
pp. 11-19. 

Bruckl, E. P., 2004, Cause-Effect Models of Large Landslides.
Natural Hazards. vol. 23, no. 2-3, pp. 291-314.

Deutsch, A., C. Koeberl, J.D. Blum, B.M. French, B.P. Glass, 
R. Grieve, P. Horn, E.K. Jessberger, G. Kurat, W.U. Reimold, 
J. Smit, D. stoffler, and S.R. Taylor, 1994, The impact-flood 
connection: Does it exist? Terra Nova. vol. 6, pp. 644-650.

Hermanns, R.., L. Blikra, M. Naumann, B. Nilsen, K. Panthi, D. 
Stromeyer, O. Longva, 2006, Examples of multiple rock-slope 
collapses from Köfels (Ötz valley, Austria) and western Norway. 
Engineering Geology. vol. 83, no. 1-3, pp. 94-108.

and

Kubik, P.W., S. Ivy-Ochs, J. Masarik, M.. R. Frank, and C. 
Schlüchter, 1998, 10Be and 26Al production rates deduced from 
an instantaneous event within the dendro-calibration curve: the 
landslide at Köfels, Oetz Valley, Austria. Earth and Planetary 
Sciences Letters. vol.161, pp. 231-241.

Yours,

Paul H.




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