09 November 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- Sudbury Impact Ended Creation of Banded Iron Formations 9NOV09

Sudbury Impact Ended Creation of Banded Iron Formations

There is a new paper published in the November 2009 issue of Geology
that argues that the Sudbury Impact in Canada ended the creation of
Banded Iron Formations during the Precambrian.

The paper is:

Slack, J. F. and W. F. Cannon, 2009, Extraterrestrial demise of banded
iron formations 1.85 billion years ago. Geology. vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 1011-1014,
doi:10.1130/G30259A.1

http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/37/11/1011.abstract


Previous Geological Society of America Meeting abstracts can be found at:
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/finalprogram/abstract_162145.htm

and http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2008AM/finalprogram/abstract_146662.htm


Other web pages:

Banded iron formation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banded_iron_formation


Banded Iron Formation
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/~mstrick/RogueComCollege/RCC_Lectures/Banded_Iron.html


Geologic evidence for major environmental change
http://tiny.cc/BandedIronClimate

http://academic.udayton.edu/MichaelSandy/Global%20warming%20powerpoints/Geologic%20evidence%20for%20global%20change.ppt


Source: Paul H., Baton Rouge, LA, USA

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