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Evidence Of A Holocene Meteorite Impact Event Near Nalbach (Saarland, Germany)
Academia ^ | 2015 | Kord Ernstson

Posted on 06/29/2015 9:19:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

The widespread occurrence of peculiar samples in the Nalbach area covering many square kilometers and exhibiting convincing indications of high temperatures and high pressures, in particular the mineralogical evidence of strong shock, establishes a meteorite impact event in the Holocene as a matter of fact according to the generally accepted opinion that shock metamorphism in rocks proves a meteorite impact. The young Holocene age is concluded from the concentration of the peculiar finds in the upper soil layers, the very fresh status of the impact glasses and the young appearance of the now discovered probable impact crater. Using impact scaling laws an impactor to have produced this 200 m-diameter crater may have had a size of the order of only a few decameters. Hence, doubts may be raised whether such a relatively small impact was able to produce these widespread highest shock levels indicated by e.g. many quartzite cobbles transferred to diaplectic glass all through, and the many various impact glasses containing for their part strongly shocked rock fragments with diaplectic glass, ballen structures, toasted quartz and high-temperature SiO 2 modifications. Further investigations will possibly show whether the area under current investigation is only part of a much larger impact overprint of the region. During the investigations it soon became evident that the peculiar findings in the Nalbach area revealed remarkable similarities to impact features in the Holocene large Chiemgau impact strewn field in southeast Germany [8-11], and meanwhile the possibility that the Nalbach impact is a companion to the Chiemgau impact has seriously been discussed.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: altoetting; altoettingchiemgau; bavaria; catastrophism; chiemgau; chiemgauimpact; germany; lakechiemsee; nalbach; phaethon; saarland

Full title, "Strong Shock Metamorphism And A Crater: Evidence Of A Holocene Meteorite Impact Event Near Nalbach (Saarland, Germany)".
Fig. 4 . The Nalbach crater from digital LiDAR data.

Fig. 4 . The Nalbach crater from digital LiDAR data.

1 posted on 06/29/2015 9:19:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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the proposed nalbach (saarland, germany) impact site
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2013/pdf/5058.pdf

The Chiemgau impact event in the Celtic Period: evidence of a ...
http://www.chiemgau-impakt.de/pdfs/Chiemgau_impact.pdf

Chiemgau Impact
http://www.chiemgau-impact.com/


2 posted on 06/29/2015 9:23:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...

3 posted on 06/29/2015 9:23:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

Bump for later


4 posted on 06/29/2015 9:25:10 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Not mein faulten.


5 posted on 06/29/2015 9:26:52 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare

Of course not.

Bushen faulten.


6 posted on 06/29/2015 9:43:22 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Did the last remaining Neanderthals go the same was as mega fauna?


7 posted on 06/29/2015 10:26:13 AM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: SunkenCiv

First time I have heard of Thunderholes. Don’t understand how they are formed from article.

Any Freepers collect Micrometeorites? Looking for inexpensive way to photograph micrometeorites and how I can test ‘possibles’ myself to authenticate. Just starting to look into it.

I have been studying and collecting meteorites for decades, small collection though as I keep selling them to purchase new ones.


8 posted on 06/29/2015 10:36:43 AM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: frithguild

That’s an interesting idea, but by the time this alleged impact happened, the Neandertals had vanished into the hybrid that became early Europeans.

The conventional view is that the original paper on this was invalid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiemgau_impact_hypothesis

> This claim has been refuted by geological research and the finding of a soil horizon of undisturbed peat and sedimentation since the end of the last glaciation period.[1][2] The lake is in fact one of many kettles under the foothills of the Bavarian alps.

My view is, they found evidence of impact, but obviously they are way off on the dating — the impact(s) happened prior to glaciation.


9 posted on 06/29/2015 10:53:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: free_life

I think the group that works on this Phaethon hypothesis pretty much invented the term “thunderholes”. They don’t look like sinkholes so much as some kind of enigmatic excavations.


10 posted on 06/29/2015 10:55:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yes it seems to be a term they coined. I am looking into it further to see if these Thunderholes exist elsewhere, they must.


11 posted on 06/29/2015 11:15:32 AM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: free_life

If there is a problem with the underlying subsurface strata being highly erosive, I’m not sure I’d want to live there.


12 posted on 06/29/2015 11:52:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv
They say holocene without being more specific on the dating. I wonder if these shocked metamorphic rock are the same age as the shocked quartz and the micro diamonds in the USA that come at the beginning of the younger Dryas.
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The Holocene is the geological epoch that began at the end of the Pleistocene[1] (at 11,700 calendar years BP)[2] and continues to the prese It has been identified with the current warm period, known as MIS 1, and can be considered an interglacial in the current ice age based on that evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene
13 posted on 06/29/2015 12:56:37 PM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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To: ckilmer
thanks, good idea.

The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith


14 posted on 06/29/2015 1:27:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

Vanished into hybrid, yes, but did they vanish completely by then? It would seem to me that any pockets on non-mudblood Neanderthals would stay to themselves. Then with the Holocene extinction, their means of subsistence vanished, and so did they - except for our collective memory of dwarfs and gnomes. The absence of archaeological evidence does not mean they did not exist.


15 posted on 06/29/2015 2:39:05 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: frithguild; SunkenCiv; ckilmer; blam; All

Now that we have information about Flores man and Denisovans, perhaps dwarfs and lepricans might have a basis in fact. Also the epic Grendel might be Neanderthal remanants. Didn’t Michael Chriton (sp?) do a book on this? Eathers of the Dead?


16 posted on 06/29/2015 11:18:00 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
"Now that we have information about Flores man and Denisovans, perhaps dwarfs and lepricans might have a basis in fact."

Years ago I read someone who was comparing the African Bush people to Leprechauns.

17 posted on 06/30/2015 11:22:59 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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