DragonHunter
The Force is Strong With This One
Most of the academic community are still thinking of a typical catastrophic impact event as being the result of a single large bolide. But I don’t think so.
Instead, in the geophysical world according to me, most extinction level catastrophic impact events are the result of very large clusters of smaller, air-bursting fragments. And those fragments are commonly large enough to produce significant ablative geomorphology. And without forming an impact crater.
When a large cluster of air-bursting comet fragments hits, only those one the leading edge of the cluster fall into cold atmosphere. The rest fall into the superheated impact plumes of those that went before them, and just crank-up the heat, and pressure.
The result is a very different kind of catastrophe from anything that’s ever been imagined, or studied, before. And it’s something that can melt, and ablate the surface. over a very large area. It can melt, and ablate, whole mountain ranges like wax under a high pressure blowtorch. Tossing them like the waves in a storm tossed sea. And it can produce hundreds of thousands of cubic miles of wind-driven pyroclastic materials in seconds.
I've read many times that craters, impact structures, and signs of geologically recent catastrophic morpholgy are hard to find. I haven't found that to be the case either.
I’ve been blogging about the planetary scarring of a very large geo-ablative impact storm that may have been caused by the debris of the Taurid progenito, and may have been the trigger for the megafaunal extinctions, and the demise of the clovis culture a few thousand years ago.
My blog is called 'A Catastrophe of Comets’. And you can find it at: http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/
Instead, in the geophysical world according to me, most extinction level catastrophic impact events are the result of very large clusters of smaller, air-bursting fragments. And those fragments are commonly large enough to produce significant ablative geomorphology. And without forming an impact crater.
When a large cluster of air-bursting comet fragments hits, only those one the leading edge of the cluster fall into cold atmosphere. The rest fall into the superheated impact plumes of those that went before them, and just crank-up the heat, and pressure.
The result is a very different kind of catastrophe from anything that’s ever been imagined, or studied, before. And it’s something that can melt, and ablate the surface. over a very large area. It can melt, and ablate, whole mountain ranges like wax under a high pressure blowtorch. Tossing them like the waves in a storm tossed sea. And it can produce hundreds of thousands of cubic miles of wind-driven pyroclastic materials in seconds.
I've read many times that craters, impact structures, and signs of geologically recent catastrophic morpholgy are hard to find. I haven't found that to be the case either.
I’ve been blogging about the planetary scarring of a very large geo-ablative impact storm that may have been caused by the debris of the Taurid progenito, and may have been the trigger for the megafaunal extinctions, and the demise of the clovis culture a few thousand years ago.
My blog is called 'A Catastrophe of Comets’. And you can find it at: http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/