Impact Craters of Portugal
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The basins off Portugal Shore - Alentejo Basin, Offshore Portugal – Deep-Water Interpretation Issues* Vanessa Tavares Pires1,2,3, Salomé Custódio1,2,3, Rui Pena dos Reis1,2,3, Roberto Fainstein3 , and Nuno Pimentel4 Search and Discovery Article #11208 (2019)** Posted March 11, 2019
In this article it states "Amongst the several un-explored basins that developed along the western Iberia margin, Alentejo Basin is one of the most important. It is closely linked with the northward basins offshore Peniche and Porto basins and the mostly onshore Lusitanian Basin. These are all being the focus of contemporaneous exploratory efforts. They are situated along the western Portuguese coast and their origin are related to the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean. These basins formed as a rifted, essentially non-volcanic, Atlantic continental margin type, trending dominantly on an N-S orientation. The basins are geographically near and roughly parallel to each-other, corresponding to the inner and outer marginal sectors. Sedimentary infill comprises siliciclastic, carbonate and hybrid sediments, with deposition and unconformities related to major tectonic events."
Whenever you see the geology term "unconformities" think wiping event. Tectonics can have a sliding fault structure but with the earth having an estimated 16,000 surface impacts is highly more likely to be impact. Additionally it states the area has "siliciclastic and hybrid sediments." That is not typical tectonics but is typical impact material.
So let's look at more maps.
The Earthquake Map, this is important, the circularity versus the linear.
Crusta Confractus an earth crust breaking impact. A large earth accretion crater. It is absorbed and only leaves some fracture seams. This earthquake line is suck a seam. Called tectonic plates they are the earth resolving the totally of system stress.
Fontainebleau Forest just below Paris. These "mega clast" are a crater feature from the shock chaos particle storm." It makes wind tunnel type shapes and holes. The holes are a late stage impact effect of mixing where you get a slurry with voids and bubbles and not metamorphic fluids and solids. You can read more about mega clast at: https://www.hillbillyu.com/new-phenomena
French Alps and the cone in cone shatter cone writ large.
Hosta Beach, Outer Hebrides west coast of Scotland. This is a cobalt iron sequence shock resonate banding from an earth crust breaking impact in the ocean west.
According to BGS, most Scottish earthquakes occur in western Scotland with events felt in places such as Islay in the Inner Hebrides and also Fort William and, in November last year, in Glen Coe. These earthquakes are the result of the earth plates still resolving the crust breaking impact.
This is a record of a large earth impact. It may have broke the earth's crust, Crustus Confractus (CC). The African plate is pushing against this Mediterranean Ridge showing the circular outline of this earth scar. The holes you see are impact sphere catchers Although some of the impact debris will not be round. The strata picture magnified shows granular particles in a shock constellationing cell patterns, a high energy signature. Here is a picture from the Crete Geology University of an impact sphere in situ.
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So why would you have nano iron for replacement? Why did the tree not decay? So if the copper was a liquid solution that is toxic and the tree is living and is no reason for association of living tree and toxic waste pool except, sudden impact.
Meteorite in Russian Museum, not tectonic, shock made.
Harpear's Cave Navarra Spain , near the French - Spanish border
A type of coning wave, cone in cone triangle. As this was the crater wall area it has made a void as the density of impact material fades in edge effects. Still has a strong harmonic wave structure.
Ask yourself why would a tectonic fold be on the surface of the earth? Why would it make a triangle? If it did how could a pressure process leave an unsupported void? Tectonic plate rubbing would make rock crumble and if you did have a good pressure form it would not be able to get to the surface un crumbled.
I did not discover this crater, that honor goes to Terry Westerman. He has an excellent web book of earth impacts at: http://geoledgers.com/Europe/Gibraltar/Gibraltar.html
This event plugged the Mediterranean until the Zanclean flood reopened it.
You can read more about the Zanclean flood at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood
Terry Westerman reopening cause is an offshore tectonic event. I rather think this is a large earth accretion crater the really big kind that make up the mass of the earth. You can see this below.
It still retains the upper fractal edge. A fractal edge is a tree fractal like lightning an energy dissipation signature. But look how large the edge predicts it's crater size, much larger than Terry is plotting. This is what I think reopened the Mediterranean. Also you can see the Bay of Biscay Imapct Crater.
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The Algeciras Basin Impact is highly suspect as the reopening event depending on the time sequence. Generally speaking you can depend on small being later which favors the Algeciras Impact.
Map at the top of pre-Neogene sedimentary cover (Romania) This is your crater.
Impact Spheres.
Now here is a good example of oil and gas collecting in the crater walls as they have pockets.
This is just an example of the minerals from the meteor bolide ejected outward toward the crater walls.
Hungary contains the rest of the Romanian Crater floor and the wall.
Fast formed fossil tree of Central Hungary. This was an impact into land.
Faults are the earth's crust resolving impacts. The older impacts were larger and more severe. Angled large old impacts can have only an arc left.
Black Sea shock made agate. Collection of: Mustafa Kemal Öztürk
Ornamental metamorphic stone also corresponds to these impacts. You really have a crater in a crater in Spain.
Italy
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modern post tectonics look at Italy. I have before but Italy is a crater overlap crust cracking complex. You of course see this on the other planets and moons.
Texel Mountains (Lodner, Hohe Weisse) South Tyrol (Italy). Bright marble, dark mica schist and gneiss which form the Texel Mountains today, endured a harsh treatment.
Compression will not make cone in cone structures and liquid swirling marbling. Also while tectonics posits a push up from plates, mountains are found where there is no such plate boundaries. Moving plate theory presumes that crust plates would be broken and move around. Impact tectonics does not need to presume. They were broken and formed by large earth accretions. You can preform this experiment yourself. Take five balls of playdough and combine them together into a new ball and the cracks will look like the earth's plates.
Aerial photo of earth pyramids in South Tyrol, Italy. Earth pyramids are a special phenomenon of erosion. The slim rock cones (up to 15 m high) were formed by rainwater washing away from a mixture of huge rocks, sand and clay deposited by glaciers during the Ice Age. The boulders protect the cones from erosion until they tumble. Credit: Bernhard Edmaier Photography
Well now that you have been dis informed with the slowest science here is a better modern thesis.
Can you have coning in clay? This is like a cleavage pattern in rocks, it shows the energy composition structure. If you had a shock wave from below come up through the earth it would make this. The rain is removing the fill. Tectonic coning. Is a new one Ray Forage, thank you for posting this. And another new phenomena name, Tectonic Coning. Cool.
Coning type, this is a narrow cone in an overlapping multiple form. Narrow coning is a higher energy form. It is shown in the "sonic booms" of aircraft which is a low energy type and makes a wide skirt. This was much more powerful.
Also, these structures are not clay greenware. They have been shock hardened from the high energy wave passing through similar to the firing of clay greenware in a kiln as a ceramics process.
The Ukraine is part of a 500 mile diameter crater. The Black Sea being part of the crater central depression. In western Ukraine you can find pillar basalt which is a harmonic form. Note the sign wave in the pillar basalt left side as a vertical harmonic.
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The Neovolcanic areas are part of the impact crust breaking event a Crusta Confractus. Pillar Basalt is a harmonic powerful wave upward with a form compression.
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Garni Gouge Armenia, The Columnar Basalt Pipe Organ - As a phenomena this is a type with cross striation. You can also see the geometric shape shift. This is a tube wave compression. Secondary shock wave striation is an imprint of wavelength. Cross harmonics can be a simple as multiple wave types produced, reflection or as complex as polarization. This would represent a large earth impact that broke the earth's crust (Crusta Confractus). Its suspect center is the Black Sea.
Today's Ray Forage post is another good one. The Swiss Alps. A subduction crater form. Subduction craters are low angle impacts that uplift a one sided arc crater and bury themselves below that. Notice the grey ash layer in the picture. See the coesite deposits in the crater wall. Coesite is a very rare mineral that forms in unique ultra high metamorphism usually as a result of meteorite impacts. It was named after American chemist Loring Coes, Jr. (1915-1978), who first synthesized Coesite in 1953 before it was naturally discovered in Barringer Crater in 1960. The theory of thrust faulting will not produce an arc. Try this at home to bend something into an arc. It would require a center arc support and even an opposing arc die or presume a rounded thrust. Thrust faulting would not favor straight up cone point mountains but a rolling rubble. Shock white metamorphic boulders with smooth surfaces and no glacier lines.
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Peggy Gardner · July 3 at 10:02 AM ·
Last crystal I've never seen before researched this week:
Libethenite from Vilavicosa ( Portugal)
Libethenite is a rare copper phosphate hydroxide mineral. It forms striking, dark green orthorhombic crystals. It was discovered in 1823 in Ľubietová, Slovakia and is named after the German name of that locality (Libethen).[2][3] Libethenite has also been found in the Miguel Vacas Mine, Conceição, Vila Viçosa, Évora District, Portugal, and in Tier des Carrières, Cahai, Vielsaim, Stavelot Massif, Luxembourg Province, Belgium.[3]
This is a fast formed impact crystal. An iterative branching triangle wave harmonic. Notice the truncations, unable to complete the form. Surface copper is an impact blast deposit.
South Tyrol, Italy. Why does a powerful enough energy rotate? It has an order of magnitude quanta jump from fractal to cone to spiral as an expression of power forms. The spiral is a third order shape dimension shift.
German Alps with fractal, cone, spiral formations. This energy is launching itself into space and formed this plastically as an antenna.
Bay of Biscay, Basque coast at Spain/France border. This is an old type 3 crater that also blasted away part of the earth's crust. It is so old that it is distorted by subsequent impact squeezing events. Bing page image for Oct. 6, 2022
Fractal crater edge, not tectonic.
Hungary/Romania are part of a large crater. These are "shock circles." The granular particle structure even has chain circles, a shock made matrix composition. This is the same mechanism that makes circles in shock agates. The horizontal lines bottom left are a crossing harmonic shock wave imprinting.
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It can be very special. A bioturbation structure, I guess. Late-Oligocene, (Egerian), Eger Formation, Hungary. Could you help, please?
Rakip Hysenaj · April 10, 2023
Siliceous in the shape of a sphere or ball, inside the Jurassic limestone. Borshi i Vjeter, Sarande, Albania.
Impact Spheres and the catching surface direction from left to right. Also we have some mosaic cracking from the great change in surface heat as cooling took place.
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Big impacts can make small and large forms whereas a small impact can only make smaller forms. So how does column basalt form? First let me point out that in the history of volcanic eruptions no column basalt has ever been observed. Why is that? Volcanos are the earth resolving crust stress and impact volcanics are the cause of the broken crust (crusta confractus). Next consider shock resonance and crater up splash. The up splash can have velocities double the down velocity. So, you have a tremendous energy up from the broken earth crust. Shock resonance will encompass a proportional drop area with the up splash. These drops are constricted by the large drops beside it and form "impact geometrics." Bubbles or drops when constrained by another beside it will compress to geometric forms. You can see this with bubble wands. Running with a bubble wand would be the stretched geometric form you see with column basalt. The picture shows this energy collapse as turbulence the ending stream like with jet exhaust. Attached picture is moving bubbles at the Frenchman's Coolie. Aug. 3, 2023.
Crater overlapping. Plate tectonics cannot produce arcs. You can try that all you want with sheets of paper. Go ahead ram them together and see what that looks like. This is a record of the early earth bombardment period. Oct. 6, 2023.
I love this exaggerated relief map of Italy because it emphasizes the role of the Po Valley so beautifully. It's Italy's most important industrial and agricultural area and the main reason Northern Italy is much richer than Southern Italy. Source: https://buff.ly/45jNBvv
Energy Strata, shock circle (3), iron fractal (2), iron impalement (1), and resonate breakup (4). See attached. The energy is coming from right to left. Fractals will branch as an energy shift quanta as they dissipate energy the trunk cannot hold the form and branches. The circle is dissipating also on the left side. It is a resonate structure which separates the minerals by attenuation. The impalement iron is from the impacting bolide. These particles are blast bits and their type and density tells you how far away from impact center, in this case far. Nov. 4, 2023.
Anyone know what causes these?
Concentric black rings on sandstone in South spain
Two craters of south Spain as shown on the magnetic map. Map of the magnetic residual anomalies of southern Spain. Extracted and simplified from the general map of the Mapa Aeromagnético de España Peninsular (Instituto Geográfico de España, 1992). Some isolines and plots are simplified to accommodate the small scale of the figure.
Linear cavitation on impact mega clast at Fontainebleau, France just below Paris.
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Also at Fontainebleau, France. This is bubbling, a surface so hot it bubbles. What is more interesting is the compression forming of a pentagon, just like is done with column basalt. With column basalt (which can be any material) it forms a tube as there is so much more material in an up splash. Nov. 11, 2023.
Round impactite spheroid from the central France impact crater. Nov. 13, 2023.
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Rob Roy · ·
Just wondering if I could get an explanation on the process that created this sphere purported to be from Belgium.
Fontainebleau forest - France. Coning structure with plasma holes in plastic deformation and mosaic heat cracking, with fractal on right side. Feb. 3, 2024.
Looks like this is a satellite photo. Now look how many craters just like looking at the moon or other planets, except for the water. May 26, 2024.
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This is the Strait of Gibraltar, where Europe and Africa almost touch, and a sea and an ocean meet