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. Ignore the red lichen. 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.
Impactite, an impact shard with impact splatter (spallerform). The iron is from the impacting meteor/bolide. It is in several phases which is not uncommon for these. You can see the red and black iron oxides. The tiny spheres are impact spheroids that cover the surface. Impact spheroids are melt drops as the energy of an earth impact is millions of megatons. While it may or may not be magnetic that is not important as shock alters magnetism as NASA proved back in the 1960's.
I was hounding today and found this guy! The Internet said it could be lots of things which is what brings me here. Any ideas ?
Iron shock Septarian found in strip mine. They were mining impact iron. July 18, 2024.
Don Hoot · ·
Another strip mine find; I call it the beehive.
The Eye of the Sahara, The Richat Structure. Concentric rings with fractals emanating. The shock energy breaking down from rings to fractals is a phenomenon of form physics. As it moves from the highest energy center the fractals increase. July 19, 2024.
Now let's look at the landscape surrounds. There it is, surface iron from the impacting bolide. It is very similar to the Russellville, AL crater by the way. July 19, 2024.
A whole lot of iron. This bolide must have been of high iron content. That would have made more kinetic energy when it exploded. These distances eliminates the circle hydraulic type theories, as there is too much as well. The problem with these wrong theories is they assume iron can just be on the surface of earth from some crazy reason like Mississippi Valley Type, a totally unproven theory. July 19, 2024.
Now notice the circular rings surrounding the HESH round crater, just like the Eye of the Sahara. Also would be debris from the round. July 19, 2024.
Mottled iron surface blast effect. Aug. 1, 2024.
Radioactive Minerals and Objects
Filip M. Jankowski · ·
Found some radioactive shrapnel in Bayo Canyon near Los Alamos 😍
My guess is that the contamination is from Uranium but gotta read about it a bit more
Impactite, chert with high iron content, detail showing melting and pelting. Oct. 6, 2024. Bill Mace specimen of Mesa, AZ.
Iron rope like feature in quarried bolder being used at Rickwood Caverns State Park in Alabama. This would be locally quarried and connected to the impact blast that made the cavern. Oct. 24, 2024.
Very red clay on surface. Moundville, AL. This is nano pulverized iron from an impact. Nov. 18, 2024.
Topo Crater outline. Jan. 14, 2025.
Lee Isham so you admit that metamorphism actually exists.....care to explain how 5 a 50 million pound blob of molten iron could be put in direct contact with material and not have ANY metamorphism??
John Tillson that is a good question. What is metamorphic iron? First let's start with the energy. I needed to name this crater anyway. Owensboro is its center. It is a hundred miles in diameter, and .8 of Chicxulub or 80 million megatons. I needed that to consider what would happen to the iron in the meteor/bolide. It would be melted but it had been melted before when the meteor was made so twice melted but not isolated as one big lump when expelled. The meteor had iron and uranium but got mined out early like TN. " Western Kentucky
Some iron deposits were mined and smelted in furnaces in Caldwell, Trigg, and Lyon Counties in the early 1900's, and numerous furnaces were constructed to smelt the ore. The occurrences are minor, isolated bodies and are not economic.
Many of the iron furnaces are still standing, an interesting monument to a past mining era, and many have been preserved as historic sites." Ky geologic survey. The coal still makes me think this may be a late Devonian/early Carboniferous (Mississippian) impact. I would say the iron you are finding is in keeping with an impact explosion. The percentage of iron in meteorites is 5%. I might add that impact explosion pulverized and makes a plasma cloud like you see with the atomic explosions. This material will show up as red clay or as coatings on rock surfaces when it falls and bonds from the plasma cloud. The box work type is a liquid splatter phenomenon, veins are of that type. The impact ash you found was once limestone now calcium bentonite. This is a type 3 (surface exploding) crater. The average angle of impact is 45 degrees. This one appears to be from the NW. .3 Sextillion or 300 Quintillion tons of iron would be the estimated distributed iron from this impact based on 5% iron and a ten mile diameter meteor. The usuals ration for crater to impactor is 10 to 1. Isn't that interesting?
TVA tower trail Cullman, AL. Iron patterns in sand. This is a center crater effect from the Black Warrior Basin Impact Crater. Unlike the iron you see in the sandstone this is unconsolidated. The impact blast high pressure made the sandstone as this was an inland seaway at the time which dates the impact. So why is this unconsolidated? The lower eight-mile creek area is sandstone with iron this was made during the most powerful stage of the impact blast. This residual material is the late state accumulation and subject to the back rush of the sea. That is why many old craters like this are not simple craters like the Barringer Crater (Meteor Crater, AZ). The back rush makes a contour of large dune type structures. Speaking of structures craters like this are called impact structures. Jan. 17, 2025.
Earth Surface Iron Theories
Arachaean Banded Iron Stromatolites
Not a stromatolite and not from any microbial iron process. This is an impactite. Since impact theory is not taught or well understood you get this kind of misrepresentation. So lets get started with the layers of bad.
First the Arachaean is not know for oxygen which is required for the bio iron process. Carnelian iron in quartz is not a bio capable process. The matrix is not a stromatolite. It is just a black iron oxide containing matrix from impact. Quartz fractal to Septarian is an energy signature the same as lightning. The heat was very high and with impact charge is present. Charge is from the electrical generating capacity of the swirling particles just like volcanic storms. Impact however with its much higher energy can ionize the quartz and iron. The quartz was glowing at the time.
Triboluminescence - Wikipedia
A diamond may begin to glow while being rubbed; this occasionally happens to diamonds while a facet is being ground or the diamond is being sawn during the cutting process. Diamonds may fluoresce blue or red. Some other minerals, such as quartz, are triboluminescent, ...
As earth is an impact accretion form the iron all came from impact one way or another. As they have never been able to show any earth crack/fissure associated with the "Spring Release" later called Mississippi Valley Type (MVT) it is a failed theory after 150 years of presumption without proof. Jan. 21, 2025.
Sheri Desciak · November 2, 2024 ·
Banded iron? It is magnetic. Found 30ish miles southwest of Casper.
Magnetic iron is a function of electron spin. It has been known that shock can alter program this spin ever since NASA experiments in the 1960's. So lets look for this area and craters. Jan. 21, 2025.
So you say that is just plate tectonics. Plate tectonics cannot make arcs or circles it is a limited theory. You can prove it with kitchen foil. Jan. 21, 2025.
Tectonic axiom, arcs and circles must have an arc or circular shape tectonic shape to produce tectonic made arc or circle shapes. Without a preexisting arc or circle shape no tectonic crashes will make arc and circles. The foil crashing shown above is making the mountain type form along the seams being pushed together however where my hands were can make circle/arc forms as my hands act as a die/form to produce it. Jan. 21, 2025.
Like an x ray you can see the non-topo geology just by flying over with a magnet, aero magnetics. Notice how much of the map is arc and circles. This is no surprise as based on Mars the Earth has over a million surface craters of a mile diameter or greater. Jan. 21, 2025.
All impacts are unique. Some have a central uplift, some hit almost laterally making ovals, some enter deeper into the crust making the blue low area. But what you see is not the seam crashing of parallel plates. It looks nothing like that as shown above. The underlying x-ray type looks shows just what is predicted by the Mars crater analogy. Why hasn't geology recognized this? Failure to look is failure to find. Bad theory makes for bad diagnosis. Poor tools make for poor results. With only Planar Deformation Features and Shatter Cones it is difficult to find many craters. Shatter coning is poorly understood. But ask yourself how valid can a theory like raft/plate tectonics be if it is limited to one case, earth? That in itself invalidates a theory. Jan. 21, 2025.
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources ·
What’s red and black and layered all over? Why, Minnesota’s banded iron formations, of course!
In the area that became known as the Vermilion Iron Range, these mottled or layered rocks formed more than two billion years ago and slightly younger iron formations in the Mesabi or Cuyuna ranges formed more than a billion years ago. Identified by thin alternating beds of bright silver hematite, white chert and richly red jasper, banded iron formations formed when volcanic activity and plate tectonics squeezed and folded layers of rocks. Over time, weathering and erosion exposed these colorful rock layers.
Ask yourself, how would a bio iron processing organism process and deposit different minerals? Keep in mind this supposed microbe is conjectured in the first place. Then on top of that this is the "plate tectonic squeeze." The example above is melt folding at around 4,000 degrees F. There are no proven places where this is occurring now i.e. another conjecture. Impact on the other hand is a proven rock melter and has 5 percent iron on average. It also has multi mineral composition. One theory covers all you see. The layering of conjecture theories chances of being correct is quite low. Jan. 21, 2025.
Well that is easy, just take a topo map of Minnesota and enclose the craters with circles or ovals. No raft/plate tectonics makes circles or ovals. Jan. 21, 2025.
Tiger iron is a banded iron formation (BIF) that has alternating layers of black and brown hematite/magnetite, red jasper and chatoyant golden tiger eye.
Photo: Australian Outback Mining
Shock Agate, it even has coning along the edge. How would a bio process make alternating layers of hematite and magnetite? Jan. 21, 2025.
Now this one is interesting. It has pebbles in the limonite/Fe3O4 inclusions and veins. That is rare. Not slag, this is an impact nodule. Jan. 22, 2025.
photo by Meteoimpact.
Banded iron versus closer impact chaos confusion. It takes distance for harmonics to settle and make the jasper like banding. This is what closer to impact looks like. It is a type of melt also. Jan. 23, 2025.
Ashley Gasek
Found these in wisconsin.. I end up tumbling them... I think hematite, magnetite, and dore Precious metal
