Canada Impact Craters.
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Stuolagil Canyon, Iceland
Big impacts and basalt harmonic forms not seen with the many historic volcano eruptions, only the big earth forming crust breaking impacts make these harmonic features. The resonate harmonic is not stopped as it leaves these figures; is part of the background frequency noise of the universe. All that static the radio telescopes hear is millions of impacts broadcasting.
Very large planet building impacts. Canada does not protrude like the Tharsis crater on Mars but does have a central uplift and surrounding depression lakes.
Impact sphere with shatter cone construction and iron inclusion from one of the big Canada Impact Craters. The iron was so hot it gassed out a vent. The sphere was made so quickly it was not able to form crystals for a geode. Collected by Jason Morgan of Calgary, Alberta Canada.
The seismic map of the crater shows the structure of it quite well, with its low-lying interior and characteristic central peak. The team also noted some potentially unique features of the crater, which indicate that some of the sediments were pushed directly outward from the impact, rather than being blown upwards.
While this seems unusual to researchers, it is not. Visual surface craters are not the full crater, they are the nominal surface crater. Under that is the major effect often making wiping unconformities in the strata for several times the nominal surface crater diameter. Meteor material is often injected in this level or even below it. So you end up with a pressure pocket and it vents upward but not until it builds enough pressure. In this way it is very like a volcano.
Geologic bedrock map of North America with the Canadian Shield (red) embracing Hudson Bay.
The pointer is directed at Grenville bedrock (orange) and specifically the Adirondack outlier.
Notice the orange inliers in the Hudson Highlands, Reading Prong and within the Appalachians.
(Modified from USGS) This is from a geology article by Dr. Jack Share at: Written In Stone...seen through my lens: The Adirondack Mountains of New York State: Part II – What do we know about their geological evolution? (written-in-stone-seen-through-my-lens.blogspot.com)
The big Canadian impact I call the "Plate Knocker" impact. It is what broke the plates apart separating North America. Probably in the quadrillion megaton range. An earth mover and shaker.
Fundy Bay Nova Scotia, Canada. Photo by lucy pinder pose
This was a big impact and made bigger nodules. Round impact spheres. Also on the right is impact bricking a phenomena of the shock wavelength which as you can see was a large wavelength. This phenomena in the smaller crater where I live would be only ten inches apart.
Impactite splatterform, shock agate the only one I have ever seen. It even has a triangle wave shatter cone sequence.
Jodi Gazlay · ·
Found this rock today near tumbler ridge, BC, Canada. Any ideas? If you zoom in on the first pic you can really see how strange it is…
Shock made mega clast with mosaic heat cracking and septarian Fe3O4 black iron oxide lines. This is the only one I have seen with the Septarian lines.
Does anyone know what this is. It was found in Alberta, Canada. It took 3 grown men to lift it.
Lori Ann Barnes · ·
Rockhounding trip to Nova Scotia’s Bay of Fundy
Energy uncontained and high mineral combination diversity - While banding is a shock isolation this energy was too high to contain with banding and launches fractals like lightning across the specimen.
Fairy Stones are impact drop elongations. Found in Canada these are from those mid size to big earth impacts. It is the lower strata of the impact event blasted out as a high pressure high heat ejecta. Elongation occurs because the motion is forming it so a simple sphere is not the right form as it has so much pull on it in its plastic state.
Ben Giroux · Aug. 16, 2022
Hi everyone I found hundreds of these beautiful stones on my land in Quebec Canada.
Greenland, the convergence of two or more Type 1 accretion crater walls. Sharpe vertical narrow peeks are shattercones the highest energy type. Smaller type 3 exploding type hit inside.
Manitoba and the central impact. Impact excavation and mineral deposits from this proto planet size impact but in a crater you will find impactites as well. The specimen below is small relative to the central impact and the earth has around 1 million impacts. However the smaller size impact do not make melt spheres, like the Barringer Crater in AZ.
Jackie Davidson Dawydenko
Dec. 18, 2022
Found in Manitoba Canada put a magnet on it and it contains no medals. Anyone know what this?
The surface is a shock particle storm which coated it during flight, core is flint as a silica, black iron oxide.
Sudbury crater impactite. Charged crater effects - Volcanic particles will make lightning at 10,000 times the normal air effects. Impact particles however are more energized and also conductive. Manganese often found in combination with iron is conductive and conductivity increases with temperature. ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0031891461900799 ) In this specimen it has a thin filament which is an expression of the ion repulsion. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/molecule/Paulirep.html#:~:text=An%20ionic%20bond%20may%20be%20modeled%20in%20terms,limits%20the%20closeness%20of%20approach%20of%20the%20ions. Electrodeposition of particles - Impactites flying through the impact turbulent particle storm are grounding objects and the nano pulverized conductive particles are charged. The impactite itself is charged due to autogenetic electrification. Why is it a straight line? Physics favors the simplest geometric forms. Sept. 12, 2023.
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Mathew Graham · · ·
Anyone have any idea what’s going on here? Found in Georgian Bay, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.
Impact made meteor marbling. Sept. 24, 2023.
Joelle Pollock
Zebra Dolomite at The Vice President in Yoho National Park, Yoho Valley Field, BC , Canada. Trail: The Iceline.
Impact nodule, high melt. All that separation is from gassing expansion. It is heavy because shock melt metamorphism which leaves it very compressed. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Oct. 11, 2023.
Cindy Williams
Impact event not sedimentary. Energy strata showing the lateral veins which like shatter cones show the direction of the energy. Shift from ash to iron during the event. Lower right corner below strata also shows the shock metamorphic process. This is part of the big Rochester Crater complex. Oct. 13, 2023.
Pierre Roberge · ·
This picture of some sort of nonconformity was taken Oct 8 at a site in the Frontenac Axis in Ontario, Canada. I am definitively not a geologist, but I can imagine that these conglomerate rocks with a thick sedimentary cover must have formed when the area was on some sort of coastal area. That would put it in the early Paleozoic era for this location. Am I on the right track? How common are such formations?
You can get a sense of the scale by looking at the oak leaf on the left.
Impact plasma hole burns from the Sudbury Impact. The energy of impact is so high that impact features do not come to mind for the common observer. While impact is far over the scale of Hydrogen Bombs you will nevertheless have a plasma bubble in these explosions. A kinetic explosion also makes a plasma core but is in many bubbles as the matter is ripped apart. Often this will be iron plasma but does not have to be. Oct. 15, 2023.
Dawn Kerr-Heibein
I'm wondering what kind of rock this is. Was found on the Bruce Penninsula, Ontario Canada. It's about 24" tall and 24 wide. 6sh" inches thick.
Excavated and overturned by the Rochester Crater. The sand and pebbles are from the previous shore. Excavated old but event young as the Rochester Crater is post Chesapeake Bay Crater. Oct. 26, 2023.
Pierre Roberge
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Here are some pictures of a very old sedimentary formation on a Precambrian rock at a site in the Frontenac Axis in Ontario, Canada. What I find puzzling is that all the sandstone material I have seen so far is either grey or brown depending on the presence of iron. However, here it is red and apparently fragile since it breaks down easily as a red powder. You can see the conglomerate pebbles in the bottom layers. So, what is this material that could have form this sedimentary formation?
Layered flow melt in conglomerate with direction from right to left. Oct. 28,2023.
Pierre Roberge
The formation shown in these pictures is in Charleston Lake Provincial Park in Canada, also part of the Frontenac Axis. The conglomerate beds are wider than all I have seen so far, and they are quite present at this location. From the closeup pictures, can we speculate that these conglomerates are more beach type than river type?
Impact collection of conglomerate with layered melt. This was a big impact which imprinted the Earth's crust. See attached from this article: How the crust meets the mantle: Lithoprobe perspectives on the Mohorovii discontinuity and crust-mantle transition
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Application of regional geophysical and geological methods throughout two decades of Canada's Lithoprobe project provides new opportunities to analyze the Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) and crust-mantle transition. The transect format employed during Lithoprobe, in which 10 specified regions of Canada were targeted for approximately a decade each...
Impact "Capover." As impact is a progressive event big slabs are expelled last forming a "capover." In this example it came from right to left. Oct. 28,2023.
Impact crater ash and impact bricking. Bricking is a shock wavelength imprinting. Wave imprinting can make a grid from crossing waves. Nov. 12, 2023.
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Shirley Palmer · ·
Thanks for having me!
Found this unusual formation at the side of the road. Had been driving by it for years and not noticed it. This is just north of Kamloops.
Shock fossil coral in cobalt impact nano mineral replacement. Nov. 24, 2023.
Kent Ellaschuk · ·
Years ago, I had finished my second year of Geology at UBC and I was driving between Banff and Jasper intending to visit the Columbia Icefields when I noticed a sign saying "Lookout for Saskatchewan Glacier" so I stopped and walked the mile or so up the mountain. When I reached the summit I could see the whole extent of the glacier which was an impressive sight and then I glanced down at my feet and the understanding of tectonic plates driving mountain building became observable and real. I was 7000 feet above sea level and standing on a coral reef.
Iron dendrite fractals (tree type). The green may be olivine. The white is milky quartz. This phenomena is produced by the impact cloud particles which in this case were iron from the impacting bolide/meteor itself. Basically it goes like this: the meteor hits and breaks into a billion particles which are swirling around making a static high charge and as the blast pebble passes the iron particles attach via electro deposition. It is most likely from the Rochester Crater which made Lake Ontario. Dec. 8, 2023.
Tina Bishop · ·
Can anyone tell me about this rock from St Joseph's Island, Ontario, Canada? Many like it on the island.
Round impactite spheroids - Earth impact spheres are one of the most fascinating to the public rocks. If I am out rock hunting and speak to a local they often mention finding them. Large impact spheres can only be produced by a large earth impact > 80 miles in diameter. Large impacts can also produce small spheres too. I hope you don't mind if I add your picture to my encyclopedia as a sphere with vein tree fractals is much more rare. The lightning type tree fractal is a record of the energy when formed. While most associated with a charged energy it is also produced by shock similar to shatter cones. Attached is a crater map showing the big craters local to this area. Dec. 16, 2023.
Photo courtesy of Grand Rapid Wilderness Adventures · ·
Grand Rapids. Athabasca River. Alberta Can.
Check out these massive Concretions that have come to surface on the Athabasca River at the historic class VI Grand Rapids. These natural wonders are some of the best examples of spheroid boulders found anywhere in Canada, and perhaps some of the largest on the planet. (Google Grand Rapids Athabasca River) for more information on this incredible site.
Round Impactite Spheroids and the catcher matrix. Yes, these are found on Mars. Mars has over 600,000 craters of a mile diameter or greater. While impact spheres often have iron content since the impacting bolides often have iron as do a sizable portion of meteorites, they do not have to contain iron and the physics allow for many materials to form these kinetic explosion spheres. The specimen does appear to be a chert with trace black iron oxide in the spheres. Chert is a common impactite and will be strewn throughout the crater and surrounds. It is a physics of both forming a shattering substance and shattering it. The physics of round are not sedimentary. Natural pearls are not round if you don't believe this. Nor can you naturally abrasion it round as that requires a holding jig and a center axis. How many times have you ever found an exactly round pebble? The physics of impact spheres is naturally able to form round as it is a drop. Complexity - As Christian Bell pointed out the spheres have merged which means they were liquid at time of arrival in the matrix. Dec. 21, 2023.
Frank Ruggiero
Basalt spheres in basalt matrix.These are found in B.C. , Canada and the gentleman that collected them is not publicising the site so perhaps we can follow his wishes and not reveal the sites location if you are aware of it. It seems that weathering releases the spheres from the matrix. I am a stone bead maker so I drilled and strung a few.
Like "fairy stones" also found near this impact made melt drop assemblages' collection are from an earth impact. Once limestone now a simi metamorphic shock dolomite in shock white. Concretion - Yes, these are concretions, a fast formed type from impact. Why cojoined assemblages? Proximity to the impact blast the melt drops expelled are dense and collide. How big is the crater? While a large crater can make small melt drops (round impactite spheroids), with small spheres look first at smaller craters. Fractal logic and craters - River pattern fractals that have a central convergence are craters. Topo craters - A topo crater is one visible on the earth's surface as opposed to anomaly craters which present in magnetic and gravity maps. Attached is the Topo Crater map of Gaspe. The double ring crater is the most dominant. I made the two rings to show the wall area which is topo visible. Dec. 27, 2023.
Ursula Kofahl Lampron
Found these on the Gaspé Peninsula Quebec Canada, on the waters edge of the Baie de Chaleur, in an isolated part of the coast next to high cliffs. Seals were abundant in the area. Not magnetic.
Impact breccia one mile below Sudbury. Jan. 10, 2024.
Tyler Savoie · · ·
Curious what everyone’s thought would be on the formation of this rock? This is roughly 5800 feet underground
Round/pancake Impactite Spheroid with electro deposition - First let me point out that round is not an abraded shape. This was a melt drop from a large earth impact. Next let me point out that geologist are not familiar with industrial processes like electro deposition. Also I am not a geologist, I consider this a forensic physics science. So what happened? Impact throws out a lot of melt drops which are naturally round. Impact often contains nano pulverized particles of iron swirling around at high speeds generating an electric charge. As the melt drop passes through this generator it grounds the swirling iron particles burning this surface imprint iron transfer. I first encountered this phenomenon in my five year study of the Howell, TN Impact Structure. Is your rock valuable? Yes, it is rare as an impact sphere to see this effect. Crater source? It takes a larger type impact to make this effect, Howell, TN is more than 25 miles in diameter although it is really a very rare fan shaped crater of longer dimensions. The attached map shows some interesting suspect craters. Feb, 12, 2024.
Kay Wren · ·
I found this cobblestone by my local river in central Alberta, Canada years ago. It reminds me of a universe or dark side of the moon maybe?haha! It's round but flattish (?) And the bottom edge is flat (and shiny smooth) so it stands on its own. Im curious what the staining is, although this is "oil country" so maybe thats obvious lol! Also, the pitting in a curved line on an otherwise completely smooth surface are curious to me. Anyways, it's a little unusual so that makes it a keeper in my world of rock addiction
Impact spheres and catcher. Is a lose impact sphere in the foreground lower right. Also note the dense white proto marble nature of the rocks. This is caused by high shock which has turned the sedimentary limestone into a metamorphic by passing so much shock through it. Attached is a map of this large crater. Feb. 28, 2024.
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Grand Rapids, Athabasca River
Fractal Tube Wave phenomenon - Resonate made separation, is branching from trunk but not as tree fractal is a tube extention a lesser energy form. March 11, 2024.
Shirley Howells
Pulled this one out of a river in southern Saskatchewan broke my wrist well pushing it uphill. I know it is nothing special it just looks cool.but any idea's of what it could be
The Big 2 Impact Craters of Saskatchewan, Canada. March 11, 2024.
Singular Tube Wave, impact made, a resonate banded origin. March 11, 2024.
Twyla Beier · ·
I found this in 2 pieces about 5 feet apart in a worked field. Fossil? Concretion? SE Saskatchewan.
Impact sphere, high shock marbleized. March 11, 2024.
Lindsey Denton · ·
What is this perfectly round rock? Found by a river in Saskatchewan Canada. It's about the size of a baseball.
TMI, too much information. A strictly physics form is limited in information. To balance a fractal is rare. The holes correspond to the bifurcated fractals. The is a shock made fossil of unknown type. March 11, 2024.
Tony Thompson · ·
Any ideas? Found in West Central Saskatchewan, Canada.
Weird Science, a non central ring harmonic. Cool, directed energy. March 11, 2024.
Bonnie Manhas-Delorme · ·
have had this rock for more than 30yrs , our son found it at a school outing ..outside Regina, Saskatchewan has been a doorstop for many years but now has a space in the garden . if anyone has an idea on why the circles are on it .. would love to read the comments ! thanks
Today's newsy geology article https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110907132044.htm
It postulates that the earth surface minerals were deposited during the "great bombardment" period. It uses Greenland as a control assuming it is one much older early continent. First let's point out that I and many others have been describing impact deposited minerals for years and the radioactivity and iron from the Howell, TN Impact Structure is approximately only 300 million years old. Not an early bombardment. Based on Mars the Earth has over a million surface impact craters of a mile diameter or greater. That means bombardment has been a continuous process with large to small over time. But the Greenland reference geology is absurd,
Greenland Minerals: Unique and Rare Finds - anglocanex.com
https://www.anglocanex.com/greenland-minerals
Greenland is rich in minerals, including zinc, lead, silver, gold, copper ore, nickel ore, molybdenum ore, titanium dioxide, and rare earth elements12. These valuable resources have made it one of the world’s top mineral producers1. Other minerals and natural resources found in Greenland include hydrocarbons, iron ore, precious gemstones including diamonds, platinum, and uranium2.
First you need to discard the obsolete Raft/Plate tectonics theory in favor of impact accretion as is actually accepted just not fleshed out. So, let's do that for Greenland. Type 2 impact subduction craters are impacts that hit at a low angle (the average angle of impact is 45 degrees) and push up an arc rise. Arcs are not possible with the tectonic theory as plates crashing together will just crinkle. Then there are the various higher angle impacts type 3 which make a mountain crater wall ring. Knowing that you can see Greenland for a series of various type and size cratering over time. This is shown in the attached topographic map. April 10, 2024.
Oblate impact sphere and receiver in limestone. Location shown as star on the above map. April 10, 2024.
Josh Robley · ·
Found on the coast line of Pituffik, Greenland. Could anyone help ID what this might be? Both sides pictured.
Surface copper ore, Greenland. That goes unnoted in the newsy article. April 10, 2024.
Copper Ore Containing Rock, Sondre Stromfjord, Greenland
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The green area is most probably copper carbonate which was quite common through the surface rocks in this area. The orange stuff is lichen and less useful for making bronze age swords.
Air temp: +24ºC Latitude: 66º29'N Longitude: 52º10'W
Shatter coning, sine wave and banding, Greenland. April 10, 2024.
Column basalt at Disko Island, Greenland an impact volcanic from a Crusta Confractus, an impact that broke the Earth's crust. April, 10, 2024.
Impact disturbed time in reference to dating fossils. April 10, 2024.
Published: 17 October 2018
Reassessing evidence of life in 3,700-million-year-old rocks of Greenland
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The Palaeoarchean supracrustal belts in Greenland contain Earth’s oldest rocks and are a prime target in the search for the earliest evidence of life on Earth. However, metamorphism has largely obliterated original rock textures and compositions, posing a challenge to the preservation of biological signatures. A recent study of 3,700-million-year-old rocks of the Isua supracrustal belt in Greenland described a rare zone in which low deformation and a closed metamorphic system allowed preservation of primary sedimentary features, including putative conical and domical stromatolites1 (laminated accretionary structures formed by microbially mediated sedimentation). The morphology, layering, mineralogy, chemistry and geological context of the structures were attributed to the formation of microbial mats in a shallow marine environment by 3,700 million years ago, at the start of Earth’s rock record. Here we report new research that shows a non-biological, post-depositional origin for the structures. Three-dimensional analysis of the morphology and orientation of the structures within the context of host rock fabrics, combined with texture-specific analyses of major and trace element chemistry, show that the ‘stromatolites’ are more plausibly interpreted as part of an assemblage of deformation structures formed in carbonate-altered metasediments long after burial. The investigation of the structures of the Isua supracrustal belt serves as a cautionary tale in the search for signs of past life on Mars, highlighting the importance of three-dimensional, integrated analysis of morphology, rock fabrics and geochemistry at appropriate scales.
Impact spheroids - When a large meteor/bolide hits earth it explodes. Megatons of explosion. The strata it hits and itself can melt, be vaporized or pulverized. Melt drops are the impact spheres. The clay is an impact pulverization, a nano material. You can read my on-line encyclopedia on these by searching on "Round Impactite Spheroids" The N BC Big 3 Impact Craters are shown on the attached map. April 13, 2024.
Ian D. Parris · ·
Found on a river in northern British Columbia Canada. No idea what to call them. They were at the base of a clay bed.
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My mom and I found these little concretions at a lake out by Fort St. James, northwest of Prince George on the way to Prince Rupert back in the early 90s.
Sometimes called "fairy stones" these are also impact spheres. April 13, 2024.
Impact made resonate partitioning boxwork. The cracks followed the partitioning energy. Impact produces shock waves of various frequencies and powers. The iron which came from the impacting meteor/bolide resonates differently from the host matrix. Sometimes the whole rock body will resonate making a shock agate, other times it will partition into smaller zones. The smaller zones push against each other as expanding circles compressing the sides to form these impact geometrics. So why not Leisegang banding? This chemical process is poorly understood in geology and even Wiki does not include the geology identified Leisegang phenomena with the chemical type. That would tell you something. It involves salts and gels, and your specimen iron rings are clearly not that. So where is this crater? See attached. May 1, 2024.
Kerri Wiebe · ·
Hi everyone! I found this yesterday on the shore of Scots Bay, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. There are fissures along the rock, but none that will cause it to break. I am wondering how the pattern formed, and just basically anything anyone may know about it. The red is not paint or a stain or rust; it’s part of the rock formation. I checked to make sure, and wouldn’t have posted the picture if the red aspects were not part of the rock. The tide deposits bands of different rocks, and there was a band with these rocks, red in them, but none with this pattern on them. Thank you for your help and sharing your knowledge. It’s appreciated.
Impact sphere and catcher. The iron is from the meteor/bolide itself. A shock hardened nodule. Was viscous at the time of the impact impalement. You can see my encyclopedia of this by searching on "Round Impactite Spheroid" Why are the holes/impact spheres the same size? An explosion like this tends to sort by distance. Really close tends to have multiple sizes.
The pure bedrock impact spheres and impalements. Impact spheres can be made of most any mineral as they are part of the explosion of the impacting meteor/bolide and the surface. The deepest type is the pure bedrock shock hardened which this specimen largely is except for the little iron bit on the back. The impact nodule has contracted as it cooled sucking in the back as well as making slight mosaic cracks. While large earth impacts are famous for the largest impact spheres, they can also make small spheres as it is a bubble physics. The attached magnetic geology anomaly map of this region shows some of the larger impacts. Tectonic significance of potential-field anomalies in western Canada: results from the Lithoprobe SNORCLE transect
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Potential-field anomalies within the Lithoprobe SNORCLE (Slave � Northern Cordillera Lithospheric Evolution) transect area provide geometrical constraints for regional crustal and lithospheric structures, as well as for local anomalies when coupled with subsurface geometry visible on nearly 2500 km of deep seismic reflection and refraction profiles...
Chris Wotherspoon
Every single person I've shown this rock to has told me it's not real. That being said it's usually been after dinner and a couple adult beverages.
I found it on the banks of the Bow River in Calgary the automne after a historic spring summer flooding.
Probably not much you can tell by the pics but if anyone can give me something to tell people so that I sound a little credible it would be appreciated
Surface evaporative bubbling voids. boulder in upper left shows impact directional blast surface. May 19, 2024.
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So cool here it's like a skate park..in the salish sea.
Fairy stone type cojoined impact spheres. May 28, 2024.
Teddy Marhenke · ·
Is this anything? Found on the Kenai peninsula in Alaska.
The Alaska South Crater is a type 2 subduction crater with impact coming from the south. That is why the southern part of the crater is under water along with the center? The center bay could be another smaller crater. May 28, 2024.
Eliminating the bay as the center the crater looks more like this. The little crater bay is just a happenstance of being along the center axis but too far north. And besides craters make center uplifts not depressions. May 28, 2024.
Fairy stone variant. These formed while plastic were once the bedrock and are ejected in a plasma/liquid state as drops. The perfect overtaking of another drop to make the ring is rare. You can also see a small impact sphere impalement on the ring (circled). Notice the surface mottling on the sphere which the ring does not have. This is due to the different areas of formation in the kinetic impact explosion. The mottling is a type of rejection pattern where minerals have not mixed. Sept. 21, 2024.
Jack Lucke
What do we have here, a meteorite from Saturn? Alas, no - it's a concretion I picked out of a clay bank about 55 years ago in central BC, Canada (Quesnel area). I have found it to be intriguing enough to keep it around for awhile.
Thank you for posting so many examples. Notice some flatten out when they land, so they were still plastic. They also obey the rules of tektite forms. The clay is calcium bentonite impact ash which was nano burned limestone in the impact. The presented specimen is outstanding in that it clearly shows the tiny impact crater surrounding lip of the small sphere which I circled. Variants of fairy stones are found in association with the Well's Creek Crater in TN. I have found perfect calcium bentonite fossils in creek bed in the Howell, TN Impact Structure. While interesting the Glacier formation principle is conjecture and after the examination of so many glaciers over the years fairy stone inclusion should have been found. Sept. 21, 2024.
Scot Lowrie specimens.
Very rare impactite. It is a lateral fractal coning (shatter cone type). Narrow triangle wave cones were made by higher energy than the traditional sine wave cones. Why does it have crossing fractals? The energy was too high. Fractal branching is energy dissipating. Low pressure sine wave type shatter cones are a low relative energy around 5 GPa. The specimen has tiny impact spheres blasted out from the impact kinetic explosion (circled left side). The right side has high energy splitting fractals, rare. Fractal energy physics. While lightning is the most familiar, this energy involves the whole body of this specimen and may be from an ionized material shift which releases energy as it shifts back down to a stable electron state for the cooled temperature. Sept. 25, 2024.
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Rita McGie · ·
I found this fossil in my son and daughter-in-law’s backyard, while doing a bit of gardening. They live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
If anyone has any idea of what it might be, I would greatly appreciate it. The photos show 2 sides of the fossil. My son thinks it might be something like sand or mud ripples, but I think that it might be some kind of an aquatic creature. It’s about 4 inches in length.
My thanks in advance.
Known and unknown craters of Alberta. While Canada has the most "official" craters of any country per capita, that is only a reflection of having the approving body located in Canada. However, based on Mars there should be over 2,000 surface craters of a mile diameter or greater in Alberta. Attached is a map showing craters and meteorite find locations.
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Having already flabbergasted myself with that fusillade of physics, sometimes a new fossil is found. While not like yours in structure this article shows a new Canadian type. https://www.cbc.ca/.../newfoundland-fossils-may-show...
The mud wave theory. I like theories but as you know we use them to test other theories and sometimes a synthesis. Why I do not support this thesis. It would take sudden energy to freeze a wave imprinted surface. As you know from building sandcastles or childhood mud figures they dissolve. And that brings the synthesis if this is a mud ripple form it would have been subjected to instant energy lithification i.e. impact explosion.
Lee Isham Cone in Cone as a sedimentary structure?
Cone in cone clastic sediment theory is wrong. The typical example is a type of shatter cone not understood, which is why I took the time to explain shatter cone theory in depth above.
I have still not rejected the new yet to be identified fossil theory. The repeating complexity is actually higher than you usually see with a physics figure like surface ripples.
Nested frequency balance. An oscilloscope produces matching both direction up and down waves. Sign waves are the typical shatter cone type but with more power on one of the directions. However wave resonance can set up and balance making the nested matching up and down coning. In the fractal configurations in the presented specimen it appears to have fractal balance which is rare but I have seen this before and also questioned then if it could be a fossil specimen.
The strongest argument for new fossil type is tubular depth. This is not a surface ripple construction; it has a tapering tube construction. You can see this from where it broke and the raised nature of the figure below it. Sept. 25, 2024.
Anti thesis, cone-in-cone isn’t a theory, it’s a pretty well documented sedimentary structure. Shatter cones are a completely different structure. I understand if you’re not very familiar with sedimentary geology it might seem strange. There’s lots of research on sedimentary geology if you’re interested in learning though.
Synthesis, Hegelian dialectics is an interpretive method that involves the conflict between contradictory propositions (thesis and antithesis) leading to a higher level of truth (synthesis)12. It was originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea. So I am done now with these many thesis and conclude this is a fossil known or unknown. So first lets start with the sedimentary thesis. After centuries of observation no such mud structure has ever been identified in a raw un lithified state. Also as proposed the specimen presented does not conform to the typology. It is separate non axial figures with fractal surfaces. There is no such example in the sedimentary examples. Furthermore the presented specimen has clam like shapes as shown in the first magnification shown lower right. All of this points toward fossil. Physics form thesis. The presented specimen does not have a common axis therefore does not conform to any type of wave ripple physics. The tubes bend which also negates wave physics. As for my study of sedimentary cone physics, many years ago I included the first Wiki example of this in my encyclopedia chapter on shatter cones. Two weeks into my field work on the Howell, TN Impact structure I discovered that geologist in general including impact geologist do not truly understand shatter cone physics, as I found triangle, sawtooth, and cones side by side 2 miles SW of Howell, in a boulder. Shatter cones are common wave forms as seen on oscilloscopes. Sediment/erosion physics is the oldest of the geological theories and goes back to Hutton who was standing on a crater wall formation at Siccar Point when he developed this ironic hypothesis. Incidentally as a student of theory Darwin was an acolyte of Hutton and considered unlimited time to be fundamental to his thesis which we now know to be false. As a time, consideration the presented fossil would appear to be Cambrian as part of the Cambrian explosion. An early fossil type as it is similar to the recent find article I cited. Sept. 26, 2024.
And now we come full circle as this specimen example is lined up on an axis and presents the coning with lateral fractals. It also has tiny impact spheres. And there is those shock circles in the background structure. This is a convincing impact made cone in cone shatter cone structure, which would mean there was a melt shift disfiguration of the Alberta specimen above. As a rule as complexity increases the likelihood a specimen is a physics figure decreases. These examples are pushing that limit but the two examples together complete the surity of being impact made. Note the left to right change to lateral fractal process. This is a secondary harmonic. Sept. 26, 2024.
It is just a matter of scale here. The young ones look different but are easier to identify. They got large and you can see the filaments fractal out as appendages. Sept. 27, 2024.
Teardrop shaped impact sphere. The sphere appears to have a coating of impact ash that has conformed by velocity to an aerodynamic shape. Just a few miles from the Elbow Impact Structure. I suspect they have not mapped the full size of this crater. Oct. 8, 2024. ELBOW IMPACT STRUCTURE – Crater Explorer
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I found this concretion at Lake Diefenbaker in Saskatchewan this year. This is one rock. What is it?
Inside ring low point is still evident. The central uplift is still evident to push the water to the crater inside edge before wall. Oct. 8, 2024.
Very powerful up splash narrow coning with turning moment. Oct. 8, 2024.
