5) PROSPECTING FOR OIL? LOOK IN AN ASTEROID CRATER
http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/cc121499.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2622-unique-meteorite-crater-found-under-north-sea.html
Unique meteorite crater found under North Sea
An impact crater has been found off the shores of the UK - but it is like nothing else on Earth.
Phil Allen, a consultant geophysicist based near Aberdeen, discovered the crater by chance. Petroleum giant BP had asked him to look at 3D seismic data from a gas field four kilometres below the North Sea. During his analysis, Allen discovered some unusual features in layers of chalk lying above the gas field, one kilometre beneath the seabed (Nature, vol 418, p 520).
What Allen saw looked like a crash site. “I was flabbergasted,” he says, “I’d never seen anything like it.” It wasn’t until a meeting with Simon Stewart, a BP structural geologist who also thought it looked like a crater, that Allen took the idea seriously...
...that looks familiar... hmm...
Prospecting for Oil? Look In an Asteroid Crater
space.com website | 14 December 1999 | By Michael Paine
Posted on 10/07/2006 6:33:48 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
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