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Xpress ^ | 8-16-2007 | Derek Baldwin

[Fred Nerks]

thanks, that’s a great article, I posted the site addy on #13, must learn how to post a live link with copy.

BTW, that image of the salt lake in the crater should be entitled WAHBAH it’s from this image gallery:

http://www.saudicaves.com/gallery2002.html

[Fred Nerks]

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/jwynn/3wabar.html

Index map showing the location of the Wabar meteorite impact site in the Empty Quarter (Ar-Rub' Al-Khali) desert of Saudi Arabia. Harry St. John (Abdullah) Philby reported the visual siting of a huge fireball passing over the then-mud-walled town of Riyadh in 1863, heading in the direction of what we now know to be the Wabar site.

[blam]

Do you have a date on that crater? We have the one linked below in Iraq at about 2200BC. Maybe a swarm?

Disaster That Struck The Ancients

[SunkenCiv]

Only 150 years ago.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1882826/posts?page=13#13

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200602/volcanic.arabia.htm

Al-Wahbah crater, nearly two kilometers (1.2 mi) wide, is a maar crater, formed not by volcanic eruption but by the collision of rising volcanic material with an underground body of water, resulting in a colossal release of steam—an event geologists call a phreatic explosion...

this aramcoworld article shows location also. Impact site? Now doubtful. Never heard of a phreatic explosion, have you?

[blam]

"So it is likely that the Wabar calamity happened only 135 years ago. Perhaps the grandfathers of Philby’s guides saw the explosion from a long way off. "

Hmmmm.

[SunkenCiv]

I don't know about phreatic explosions, could be anti-impactor bias.

Google

[Fred Nerks]

thanks...it just doesn’t seem deep enough for that explanation...IMO.

[colorado tanker]

Oman makes more sense to me too. More resources, especially water and agriculture.

[blam]

"Never heard of a phreatic explosion, have you?"

Nope, never.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 08/17/2007. Thanks again blam.