Showing posts with label Sudbury impact crater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sudbury impact crater. Show all posts

05 December 2009

Canada Meteorite News- Sudbury Impact Makes Waves 5DEC09

Life began with a bang in Sudbury, 1.8 billion years ago: scientists
The Gazette (Montreal)
By Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service December 4, 2009 4:03 PM Locator map showing the site of a meteorite hit near Sudbury about 1.85 billion years ago ...

Did life begin in Sudbury?
Canada.com Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:27 PM PST
The mountain-sized meteorite that struck Sudbury nearly two billion years ago already known to have made the northern Ontario city a global mining mecca may have also triggered changes in Earth's ocean chemistry that allowed complex life to begin evolving on the planet, two U.S. government scientists have theorized. ...

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