
Geologic Analysis of Large Impact Basins, Exploring Our Natural Resources
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Greetings from the Great Basin, Nevada, site of a giant multiringed impact basin.
X-ray fluoroscopy elemental breakdown for 250-micron metallic microspherules found above 500' depths in Anchor Point, Alaska stratigraphic test wells. Thank you to Ellington Geochemical Services, Houson fo the analysis.
Stitched model for development of transient crater and subsequent oscillation ripples, or rings.
Coarse breccia from the ""spires" at the Sante Fe impact structure, New Mexico.
North America magnetics shaded relief. Cenote rings plotted as black dots encircling the center of the Chicxulub Impact center. Surficial geology polygons are shown, ultramafic rocks plotted black. Oil fields are green.
Earth gravity centered on the Tibetan Platform.
Extinction event on the Chattanooga Shale at the Flynn Creek impact, Tennessee. Gray to dark gray petroliferous fissile shales.
“Impact Crater Studies” interrogates the hidden potential energy transferred to the Earth during meteor, asteroid, and comet impacts. A vast amount of kinetic energy is instantaneously transformed into potential energy at these impact sites. Most of this energy is expended quickly, cooling, deforming rocks. Most of it. The rest of it is a secret, worthy of pursuit: oil and gas, gold, rare earth elements, metals.
For known and suspected impact craters, we conduct: 1) geophysical surveys, 2) geologic field studies, and 3) laboratory analyses including thin section petrography, CT-Scans, x-ray diffractometry, magnetic susceptibility, specific gravity, geochemistry, vitrinite reflectance, and age dating . Data collections precede hypotheses construction.
To develop cross-functional relationships between different arms of the geosciences, from academia, government, and industry--interactions that promote dreaming, and scientific discovery. Too often industry ridicules academia, academia ridicules industry, everyone ridicules government, too little scientific promotion. We attempt to bridge the learnings from academia, government, and industry as it pertains to large impact events.
Greetings from the Great Basin, Nevada, site of a giant ... er ... multiringed impact basin.
David B. Buthman has 42 years oil and gas exploration and development experience working for Union Oil Company of California, Chevron, and then Hilcorp. He currently works full-time evaluating astrobleme prospects worldwide, for oil and gas-, but also for mineral potential.
G.C. Herman, PhD: A professional geologist that has mapped and researched Appalachian geology for over three decades with the New Jersey Geological Survey. He taught Earth Science as an adjunct professor at various colleges, and has been recently conducting geoarchaeological research and writing about his findings. His research and publications are on-line through www.impacttectonics.org.
Lindell C. Bridges: President of Pure Earth Resources, a geoscience firm with offices in Edmond, Oklahoma, and Sharpsville, Pennsylvania. By education and training, Lindell is a geologist with more than forty-one years of experience in development and exploration in the oil and gas industry in addition to a few mining projects. About half of his career has been working unconventional plays.
Legacy thinking stool.
Dr. Herman on the rails to discovery, Sudbury, Ontario.
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