The Brown Iron Ore of the Western Highland Rim. This spray goes all the way to Eastern Arkansas! Middle, TN being a crater debris field is rich with small deposits. The "brown iron ore" ridge along the western highland rim is just one of the many such deposits. While the big blast from Howell likely is responsible for some of these; I do not believe it is responsible for all. Besides the known impact sites, it is likely many more are yet undiscovered. One of the greats of impact geology Roddy worked the Flynn Creek Impact and it's complex change over the subsequent restructuring sequences. Sadly Roddy's work was not spliced in to the system of impacts even ignoring the Dycus sturcture just a few miles away that was likely a fragment of the Flynn Creek impact. The subsequent filling of Flynn Creek with Chattanooga Shale is a result of the large Howell Impact lateral push. Middle, TN is a frontier of earth science. The major systematic study was done in a period that pre-dates impact related associations. All the many mines in the century old plate shown below are claimed to be quasi volcanic mineral salt deposits. Such a strange conclusion being so distant from any known volcanic source and sitting atop a crater field. The strange recurring bentonite layers could also be meteor nano debris. While tracked across strata and postulated as some volcanic ash of unknown source the frequency of the bentonite tends to favor the also frequent local impacts. If you study the progress of medical science you will find it was held back for a thousand years by bad held to themes like the imbalance of body humors. As more specific study took place this crippling notion was finally discarded. That is the way I find the geology of Middle, TN.
Iron in context. Iron as a thin distributed layer is found in highway cuts surrounding the Howell, TN Impact Structure. The crater is really centered at Frankewing, TN. Picture is a new highway 31 four lane expansion near Pulaski, TN. The broken strata indicates shock energy as well.
This being inside the Frankewing Crater is evidence of the iron content from the previous larger Middle TN Basin Buster Impact which is centered SW of Murfreesboro, TN.
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Researchers found a brand new mineral tucked in a tiny meteorite. It's never been seen in nature before
By Scottie Andrew, CNN
Updated 8:05 PM ET, Thu December 26, 2019
The Wedderburn meteorite contains edscottite, which occurs in iron smelting. But it has never occurred in nature until now, when researchers sliced the meteorite open and found it hidden there.
(CNN)Between 2015 and 2019, researchers discovered 31 new carbon minerals, most of them vividly colorful. Edscottite is one of the least flashy new finds, but it's also the one that's set geologists abuzz.
Edscottite is one of the phases iron goes through when it's cooling down from a high temperature, as it's smelted into steel. But the edscottite discovered in a tiny meteorite and officially named this year is the first to occur in nature.
The Wedderburn meteorite's been sitting in Museums Victoria in Australia since it was found nearby in 1951, and researchers have sliced it open to search its contents just as long.
"We have discovered 500,000 to 600,000 minerals in the lab, but fewer than 6,000 that nature's done itself," Stuart Mills, Museums Victoria's senior curator of geosciences, told Melbourne newspaper The Age.
It's named for Ed R.D. Scott, a cosmochemist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and pioneering meteorite researcher. He first identified the unique iron carbide in 1971 while studying the meteorite, but technology hadn't advanced far enough for him to characterize its structure.
Specimen above is from New Zealand and has an iron matrix with a separated iron concentrated like Septarian nodules and crossing fractal fiber crystals. You can see it magnified on this page: https://www.hillbillyu.com/shock-brocolli-fiber-crystal
Round Impactite from Lake Logan, TN shown above. People can't resist picking these up and ask what they are. The wrong answers are: A Mississippi Valley Type (MVT) iron concretion, iron shot from the War of Northern Aggression, slag. You can read all about them at: https://www.hillbillyu.com/round-impactite-spheroid
Four lane highway cut highway 64 from Interstate 65 to Fayetteville, TN. This cut is just east of Boonshill to Petersburg highway intersection, which is near the Frankewing Crater Center. The iron laying event took place at the very bottom of this strata sequence. Iron as larger lumps is found making an arch that stretches from Alabama to Kentucky with closer metal bolide ores including iron at Elkton in Giles County and Cobel in Hickman County. As a phenomena it is clear that Impact Blast such as these do element separation to different degrees in the blast matrix.
Shown above is another specimen from Lake Logan, TN in the Southwest Crater. It shows the shock context of iron. Going from the exterior to interior is the fascinating divergence in form.
Shown above is Jackson Pollocktite an iron splatterform found at Lake Logan, TN. You can read all about splatterforms at: https://www.hillbillyu.com/impact-pollockite-splatterform
Shown above is iron in EMP shock hackle. Specimen found at Lake Logan, TN. You can read all about EMP hackle at: https://www.hillbillyu.com/arc-wave-negative-refraction-ion
Close up of blast floor iron rubble from highway 64 road cut. Is like what the quarry sells called crush and run with a mixture of sizes to make driveways except for the iron. Changing view about iron formations. https://www.mngs.umn.edu/meteoriteimpact.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2hh8XygSlu8ZWUgcc5bT-TPDPE_JcRkF5_PUsDOXmQP4C77INLK-6kZCE
Shown above is a specimen presented for identification from a crowd logic rock identification group. That failed miserably. The shock jasper/agate form is also shell coated which is one of those strange things about impactites and the shock chaos sequence. Iron banding is wrongly believed to be a deposit of a primitive sea creature. You can read all about that non since on Wiki if you want to cause premature dementia. The wave form shock phenomena is discussed on this page: https://www.hillbillyu.com/shatter-cones-impact-crater
Shown above is the famous Septarian separation of the iron into a conductive pathway. You can read more about this at: https://www.hillbillyu.com/shock-septerian-crater-impact
Shown below is an iron fragment from the meteor exposed in a road cut north of Petersburg in a washback sandstone matrix. It has made a peculiar ripple pattern in rust as a recent effect due to being exposed.
Additionally some of the iron is still slightly radioactive. The idea that the iron in TN is from a vague process called Mississippi Valley Type (MVT) is fundamentally wrong and does not have any good evidence to support it along with the many other phenomena associated with the entire geology. MVT being a chemical deposition with unknown cause for why the chemicals are present or how the energy is supplied to produce the reactions certainly does not account either for the presence of radioactive material as well. Sadly this wrong system is used all over the world as a mechanism when it's base area is clearly not from that cause.
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Shown above is a specimen from Lake Logan, TN with the beautiful water color wash from iron in chert. Did this happen at time of impact or after? You can see more specimens and discussion about this at: https://www.hillbillyu.com/candy
Shown above is iron shock fossil. Also from the Frankewing crater. You can see more shock fossils at: https://www.hillbillyu.com/fossils-shock-gemstones
And who likes their iron shocked extra crispy? Over shocked iron shown above from Lake Logan, TN is a specimen that was too close in the explosion and vaporized part of it. You can read all about this effect at: https://www.hillbillyu.com/cinders-shock-impact-craters
The jacksboro to rockwood crater and the iron works at rockwood
The Jacksboro to Rockwood Crater is shown by this post tectonic mountain building fault.
A rock story - Impact Breccia, found in Quebec shown above. This is the same type of strange rock I found that I got bull crap answers for it's cause from the state geologist and university professors. Even more this stuff is sometimes radioactive. So these so called experts are not only incompetent but also dangerous. The map picture is the circle lake i.e. crater center and the red dot is where they wanted to do uranium mining. See how far an area an impact can scatter ores.
Specimen above and below is from the Lackawanna, New York area. It is an impactite with iron and quartz showing low resonance decay. This indicates it is at some distance from the crater center. The strange groves on the outside are a phenomena encountered with other impactites. They could be a cooling effect. This is not a presentment of iron that is from a volcanic metamorphic source. This specimen has been in a shock particle storm and that is it granular matrix composition. This specimen may be from the big Michigan Impact Crater http://cintos.org/SaginawManifold/Saginaw_Bay/
A tectonic based fault will show earthquakes since it proceeds down to the crust break. As you can see the Jacksboro to Rockwood, TN fault is an impact fault. Iron was mined at Rockwood, TN it is from the large meteor impact which contained iron. You can read about it on Wiki at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwood,_Tennessee
Iron and quartz in low differential shock harmonic banding. These tube shapes are melted material from the shock explosion and is all ejected along with the shock particle storm which makes up the majority of their matrix but are not in a high enough state of resonance to isolate them into an agate type of whole body banded form. Whole body resonance makes rings around the center of mass.
Specimen shown left is Tiger's Eye a gemstone from the Manson Iowa Impact Crater. This resonance is a through resonance sine wave with banding on the edges, which was a lot of harmonic acting on this specimen. See how the iron is separated by it's density.
Impact composite - The iron is from a large meteor impact called a bolide. The composite nature of it's composition is from the rubble chaos of a kinetic force of this magnitude. The specimen's most interesting feature however is the linear crystal habit around resonate mass points, the eyelash effect.
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Iron impactite face rock. Mohamed Bouzelfen collection Morocco.
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Crater layer exposure - Step wave bricking with ash slate layering. The ash layer is in a shock particle storm composite.
found this crater wall exposure in East Tennessee. It has iron. While geologist will tell you iron just drops out of some biological or chemical process into any rock, they never are able to experimentally provide any evidence. Of course you cannot duplicate a large meteor impact, but the evidence is easy to see forensically. Melted layers with melt inclusions. White shocked metamorphic limestone.
Old specimen of "tree-trunk" hematite from the Montreal Mine in the Gogebic Range, size 15.8×6.2×2.7 centimeters (6.2×2.4×1.1 in)
Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0
Hematite Locality: Montreal Mine (Ottawa; 33 Company Mine; Trimble; Odanah; Moore; Jupiter; Bourne; Sec. 33 Mine), Gogebic Range, Iron County, Wisconsin, USA (Locality at mindat.org) Size: 15.8 x 6.2 x 2.7 cm. An old-time and huge specimen of hematite, known in this form variously as "fans" or "tree trunks". The complete-all-around and pristine specimen is doubly terminated and has beautiful ribbing and a lustrous, gray/mahogany-brown patina. This piece hails from a classic and famous Wisconsin iron mine - the Montreal Mine in Iron County. Ex. George Robbe Collection, which was donated to the Seaman Museum following his death in 1963.
Impact blast iron with high heat patina. First let me say that large meteor/bolides are full of many minerals and the blast iron can have nickel, zinc, etc. High heat patina is something I saw often in the machine shop. Sheet steel would arrive with this surface. As an art finish it is popular and made using chemicals. Surface blast iron also occurs in other craters. I recently visited a crater in NW Alabama with this covering over sand with iron chunks also in the sand. The Bighorn crater complex is somewhat old and other large craters are part of this overall impact stressed surface. For simplicity I will treat it as a topo crater shown on the attachment. June 18, 2024.
I saw these in the northern Bighorns today. They appear to be normal sandstone, but have a thin, iridescent coating on one side. It doesn’t peel off, and affected only an outcrop about 4 feet wide by 15 feet long was the same. The shine and color doesn’t show up well in the pictures. What is going on here?
Impact made blast coating slow cool sulfur iron pyrite. Notice not all the surface was able to construct the pyrite cube. Attached is some of my collection of impact spheres I collected in the Howell, TN Impact Structure, for which I am the principal investigator. The specimen on the left has made surface pyrite cubes. June 18, 2024.
Jennifer Findley · ·
I just found this in a gravel drive...this is the 2nd one like this I have found...what is it? It looks like copper or pyrite? But I don't know enought about how those deposits look in or on host rocks.
