[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" 
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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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