[meteorite-list] New or maybe old QUESTION??????

[Norbert Classen]

Hi Pete, and All,

Check out the following website on Fossil Meteorites (best viewed with
Internet Explorer - it doesn't display correctly with Firefox for some
reason):

http://epsc.wustl.edu/~visscher/research/fossil_files/frame.htm

Best,
Norbert 



> --- Pete Shugar <pshugar at clearwire.net> wrote:

>

>   

>> List,

>> Maybe this has been asked and answered (sounds like a lawer thing) 

>> and maybe not.

>> Since I am relatively new to collecting and certainly not an Expert 

>> in any area of meteorite study (with the exception of magnetisum 

>> (from the sky magnetic VS made a magnet by processes here on earth).

>> Here's my question:

>> A geologist  digs in an area that he thinks there will be the 

>> likelyhood of finding a fossil. Maybe he gets lucky and maybe finds 

>> bunches of them.

>> Has anyone ever found a meteorite buried deep in a layer that is 

>> thousands or even millions of years old?

>> Years ago--long before I became an obsessed, crazed, meteorite 

>> addict, while teaching a series on earthquakes, I had found a video 

>> of a scientist standing with one foot on the Pacific plate and the 

>> other foot on the North Americian plate, ie astraddle of the San 

>> Andreas fault line. In back of him was a small vertical clift of 

>> maybe 10 feet and you could plainly see the shift (approx 15 inches) 

>> in the layers of sediment.

>> Now I've got to thinking (some say this is my

>> problem--Thinking) that these

>> meteorites have a tremendous terestial age. If the earth is bombarded 

>> by these meteorites throughout the aeons, then there should be a 

>> record, ie evidence in the form of buried craters (see the Odessa,Tx 

>> crater) -- Approx 100 to 110 feet deep that  has been filled in till 

>> it is only 25 to 30 feet deep now due to wind blown sand (mostly). 

>> I've got a pamplet of  "Occasional Papers of the Strecker Museum" 

>> from Baylor University showing  a neat cross section of the Odessa 

>> Crater.

>> How much investigation into the cross section structure of the 

>> sediment layers, looking for evidence of craters has been done?  Has 

>> there ever been an accidential discovery of a buried crater in a 

>> clift side. Lots of these erroded mesa exist out west. Maybe evidence 

>> is visable there.

>> Surely Valeria is not the only animal killer out there.

>> Maybe another animal drilled by a passing meteorite with the 

>> coresponding meteorite near the body. Maybe there's no body but the 

>> meteorite is still there buried in the deeper layers of sediment. 

>> Maybe tektites are the only surviving evidence.

>> In a nutshell, has there ever been a meteorite found at a depth of 

>> sediment that is plainly very old?

>> Pete