Scotland, UK Meteor Impact Craters.
Impact 1
Impact 2
The only meteorite impact crater to be discovered anywhere in Britain or Ireland lies beneath a large area of Scotland, a scientist has suggested.
Dr Mike Simms, of Ulster Museum in Belfast, says has located the centre of the crater to be Lairg in Sutherland.
Patches of impact deposit, rock fragments thrown out when the meteorite hit, have been found elsewhere before.
But Dr Simms said he had now worked out the impact site and scale of the crater.
His findings have been published in the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association.
IMAGE COPYRIGHTDR MIKE SIMMS
image captionEvidence of the impact includes deposits fragments of green molten rock mixed in with red sandstone
Evidence of the giant, ancient meteorite impact - deposits of green molten rock fragments mixed in with red sandstone "sandwiched" between sandstones almost 1.2 billion years old - was identified near Ullapool, in Wester Ross, in 2008 by geologists from Oxford and Aberdeen.
Dr Simms, a curator of palaeontology, studied geophysical maps of Scotland to find the impact site and to give a scale to the crater - it is at least 24 miles (40km) in diameter.
The centre at Lairg, a small community known for holding Europe's largest one-day sale of hill sheep, is buried under rock layers laid down after the impact.
Dr Simms said the impact released energy the equivalent to 1,500 billion tonnes of TNT explosives.
His research will be a feature of Channel 4 programme Walking Through Time, which is to be shown on 24 September.
The above article is about impact 2. Impact 1 is older still and unreferred to in literature but is ever present in the fault mapping. This is a peculiar thing about geology is it's failure to receive updates like an old "main frame" computer from the 1950's. Pre transistor, tube type geology. Will give geology the Turing tears award or maybe they are the Turing imitation of intelligence just never updated.
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Melting Shattercone in the Lewis Highlands Scotland. Location shown on left map.
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Shock septarian, iron inclusion blossoming, granular particle construction Siccar Point, scotland Meteor Impact strata. You are looking at the basis for "deep Time." A crater made it in minutes which james hutton said took millions of years and darwin based evolution on that.
So James Hutton 1726-97 is standing at Siccar Point on this large meteor impact strata and says "I know, if I come back here tomorrow and it looks the same, that will mean all yesterdays are the same as today." So he does that, and calls it Uniformitarianism. Then he writes that. Dawin reads that and says "I know if all yesterdays are the same that means life evolved from mud struck by lightning." You went to school and were told this and you said "....
Impact signature - While you can get volcanoes to bubble it will not look like this. This is metamorphic rock not basalt. It has splatter type inclusions. And of course the over studied and always wrong conclusion of the famous unconformity at Siccar Point as volcanic and not impact. Impact is not taught in geology. So pretty much everything Hutton taught that Darwin based evolution on is wrong. They both did however sell a lot of books. Does that mean anything? Well here is what I have found. Everything ever published about the geology of my area is wrong. How do I know that? I got out there and really put some work into investigating it myself. Which nobody else really has ever done. At least not in my area.
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Siccar Point - Impact crater wall rubble. Not tectonic. Certainly not any gradual billion year sediment.
Broadhaven South, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK, Ray Forage photo. This is a micro version of the Giant's Causeway tubular forms. It seems to be a resonate crystal habit.
Aberystwyth beach in Wales. Specimen collected by Debbie Platten. Shock made metamorphic with impalement. To the left you can see a fractal shatter cone section. Along the bottom is the shock particle storm shown in the little white dots. They are also in a flow directional configuration. The matrix is a SiFe3O4 silica iron 3 oxide.
Would you like to see the crater center of the big earth impact that made the impressive geology of Scotland? It is a big old impact looks like a thousand miles plus crater. You can see the high magnetic center on this world magnetic anomaly map.
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The Isle of Skye, Scottland and the interrupted vertical columnar flow. This large earth impact in the ocean west and having a basalt floor produced this geologic structure as part of the upward blast. While it is a somewhat igneous type since this impact broke the earth's crust the simple action of a volcanic eruption will never produce this harmonic. It is complex with a strata between showing horizontal shock wave length impression. It has coning on left side but most of all it was vertical column making on right lower side then progressed into the lateral striation. This is a pulsing behavior and a wave withing a wave.
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The Northeast Atlantic Crater - The signature indicates is cam in at an angle from the SW. Perhaps about 45 degrees which is the average angle of impact. As it was a Crusta Confractus breaking the earth's crust the physics require calculating some absorbing energy loss.
Here we have a better look at the crater. I was wrong this is a lower than 45 degree impact at very high speed (30 plus miles per second). You can tell that by the shape of the crater. It is a subduction type crater. Subduction crater do not have a full circle crater as they are sliding into the mantle and in this case breaking the crust causing a resultant magma upward plume with the consequent phenomena effects. Not to complicate this analysis if you read studies of this location they will combine the surrounds into some kind of tectonic event over time. Yes other events happened but that does not make this event part of a single tectonic earth crust stress resolving but rather a series of earth crust events that each cause a new complex of stress pressures being combined as they occur.
This slide is from:
RESEARCH ARTICLE| OCTOBER 01, 2010
Global pulsations of intraplate magmatism through the Cenozoic
Lithosphere (2010) 2 (5): 361–376.
Iceland is a Crusta Confractus (CC) with the resulting stress cracks extending from it. It would appear to be the latest of this series. The three north and east are older.
The black one is impact breccia, broken bits fused together by high shock plasma melt. The red is a surface electroplating effect of the high turbulent particle storm of high iron particles making surface discharge grounding which transfers the charged iron into lightning figure surface impressions. As you can see it do a transfer to quartz as well this is a simi-conductor transfer as well.
Ally Rules · 13h ·
Little hunt with my son today and found some quartz etc but also found the 2 larger stones that I need help with an I.D please. When I've scanned the large flat one it's saying Basalt which I would love! We are in sw Scotland
Ray Forage obsession. While it is true Scotland has these compression and expansion geologic features this occurs all over the world as it is an impact made phenomena and the earth has a million craters. Take a look at this specimen from Alaska. These are found in Tennessee, in Alabama .....
Type 1 earth accretion impact a Crusta Confractus (CC). That is why you see column basalt in Iceland and Scotland. Column Basalt is a moving constrained bubble rising to the surface. The magnetic pole is shifting to a more central iron location from the large accretion iron construction. It also plumed the earth's iron upward in the crust breaking explosion.
Iceland is a central uplift rebound effect from this earth absorbed crater. The so called tectonic plates are crater edges of these earth crust breaking impacts still trying to resolve this stress.
Anyone who has ever done metal working will know that you cannot conform an arc or circle by ramming to plates of metal together no matter how much force you use. Additionally if you have ever made a ball of Playdoh you know it will expand with every addition. While it is accepted that the planets are accretion bodies the fulfillment of this principle is neglected. Nor is plate tectonics verified by the other planets. Impact accretion is. There are four types of impacts. Type 1 is a full immersion, Type 2 is a subduction partial immersion. Type 3 is a surface explosion. Type 4 is a small non explosion ballistic impact. The Atlantic mid ocean crack is a ball expansion from massive accretion expanding the earth's ball size. That is why South America and Africa fit together. Crack complexity occurs where hardening impacts have occurred complicating the crust resolving stress.
Scotland. This is what was once the bedrock. It has been blasted upward and the large meteor has imparted a nano iron in this soupy mix. The impact center is Iceland. The quartz splatter is sand melted, basically a splatter.
Cornish Impact Crater Impactite with: 1. Directional cavitation. Directional cavitation while associated with meteorites does occur with impactites although like a lot of specimen types a rock hunter may go a lifetime without finding one, or recognizing it. 2. Shell surface. Shock fossils will disappear below the surface with high shock as this specimen does. It shows several coral species on it's surface. 3. Holes. Formation slurry can stretch like biscuit dough making voids. In a shock chaos storm many impalements can happen even in flight as all this explosion material flies outward. 4. Color. Porcelain like crypto crystalline milky silica quartz with nano iron and cobalt in small amounts. Calcium rich content as well. 5. Mineral orogeny. As this shock wave moved across the ocean floor the calcium, sand, and to a small extent nano iron and cobalt in the shock wave from the exploded metero/bolide compressed/melted the shalow ocean floor into this rock. The tubular shape is a result of the directional energy stretching, a lower power version of shatter coning however it must be remembered that this specimen was forming while moving at great speed whereas a shatter cone is stationary thus absorbing more energy. 6. Rings or clinks when tapped. Shock Tempering. The crystal structure of tempered materials is more compressed thereby able to reflect more energy and not absorb it so it will repropagate as a sound wave.
Oct. 24, 2022 ·
Dredged up by a fishing boat off Cornish Coast . Is full of holes , sounds, feels hollow . Flinty ring to it when tapped .
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Iceland is the central uplift of a very large type 1 earth accretion event. While possible to have a volcanic explosion so bit it could produce this it is very unlikely. First of all, column basalt has never been observed in thousands of years of volcanic explosions. The mechanism favors impact. It is a resonate boundary phenomena where the bubbles are in motions like running with a bubble wand. The impact geometrics are made from the bubbles in compression against each other. The top swirl is an ending loss of energy signature, turbulence. Notice how the columns taper as the energy is lost. Remember, a type 1 accretion impact goes into the earth adding mass. The earth absorbs this with a fracture seal which on the surface has the push of existing and later stress compressions and tensions. You can still see it in the lasting fault patterns it made, see attached. Aug. 14, 2023.
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Impact ash, shock compressed with high heat broken inclusions. The layers are the imprinting of shock wavelengths. The fine minerals are a product of impact pulverization including the bolide minerals. The white designs are rejection patterns, likely calcium refined by the high heat. The left inclusion is an oblate impact sphere. Oblate impact spheres have a lateral formation component as they were in great acceleration. Aug, 16, 2023.
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These rocks are on the north bank of the Cleddau estuary, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. They are Carboniferous slates and mudstones some 300million yrs old. Dark grey in colour and fine in texture, these rocks were laid down in thin, 2-3 mm, presumably annual layers and have been heavily folded, faulted and fractured.
The point of interest is the two inclusions seen here. They are about the size of a 6inch subway sandwich. Note how the layers "flow" around them for all the world just like a cross section of the air flow over an aerofoil. Any ideas what these inclusions could be? Or were?
The closest couple of layers above and below are heavily stained with iron oxide and the stone photographed in the second two pictures is core material. A coarse clay, biege in colour but not coarse enough to be called sandy. Stained lightly with iron oxide.
Many thanks in advance for any thoughts.
Impact mega clast. They are known for their fluidized shapes. The grain structure is the impact particle storm. The striations are the shock wavelengths imprinting. The dark areas are blast burnt. Sept. 6, 2023.
Photograph by: Lisa Rigg, Iceland.
Transition turbulence. All unconformities are the signature of an energy event. In this case you can see the transition of this energy from organized to turbulent (circled). It even has matching strata (arrow). Sept. 25, 2023.
Iain Maclean
Devonian Sedimentary sandstone, Caithness coastline, northern Scotland.
The wife in the second photo for scale.
My question is, why is the upper layer folded but the layer below still perfectly flat?
Devonian or event time? The evidence of this presentation shows it to be the last event, a high energy event. Forensically that only gives sequence. Time itself is a dependent variable of event. Example a pre Cambrian exposure. How did that happen, that is the first consideration. Given an event has to make a pre Cambrian exposure what was the event and how does it sequence with other events.
Non symmetric expansion. Oct. 25, 2023.
The Geologist
Hi! My grandmother found this exceptional rock on a Faroe beach. Does anyone have any idea how it might have been formed?
Coal Craters, the post Carboniferous Impacts. Jan 20, 2024. Now notice the same in the US shown below.
Lava theory - Lava is a liquid and as such would be uniform in composition not separated as shown in your matrix inclusion examples. Lava is around 2,000 degrees F and is insufficient to melt limestone. Shale ash? Volcanic ash would need a compression physics. Lines, what made them? Before you start on a series of non-impact processes let me point out that any series of not same causal mechanisms becomes statistically improbable. Jan. 28, 2024. Isle of Skye. Robert Wells.
The Isle of Skye Crater. Jan. 28, 2024.
So let's do a review of the geological literature on this Isle of Skye feature. "At this locality lavas and tuffs are intercalated within the Eday Flags of Middle Devonian (Givetian) age. The form of the principal volcanic outcrop has been the subject to various interpretations in the past but is now believed to be a lava extruded into a partly aqueous environment. The flow is characterised locally by amygdales, pipe sandstone veins and spectacular spheroidal weathering. Of interest also is the secondary development of analcime and zeolites which impart an alkaline character to these otherwise calc-alkaline rocks. The locality is important as a representative of the poorly exposed Eday volcanics and for the wealth of interesting internal features present in the flow."
1. Where is this supposed volcano?
2. How would this extrusion take place? It is not seen in any of the ocean crustal extrusions in this presentation.
3. Partial water environment with a volcano. Take a look at this physics as shown below.
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This transition would have a path.
4. What would explain the lines? They are separating the drops. There is no reason for that in the diagram above.
5. Compression ridges. Clearly these nodules have landed with some force as you can see compression ridging on one side and none on the other which equates to direction of impact. Not a squeezing melt flow as described in this theory.
6. Why did the authors of this theory not call it Mississippi Valley Type (MVT), are they unaware of this theory which goes back to the 1800's.
Flat, teardrop shaped impact sphere, found on the side of the road, NE UK by:
Lea Coleman
I wonder what this is?
Could it be a meteorite?
It was found on the pavement near grass edge.
A quick search mentioned things to check like what colour is residue? Red being hematite. Brown being more likely meteorite.
The residue is brown when scratched on unglazed pottery.
Highly magnetic.
Colour of metal under a sanded section is black.
It’s rusted and has likely been on the pavement edge for quite some time.
Please only share knowledge…no ridicule, I’m here to learn. Thank you
If it isn’t a meteorite, please would you share your process of elimination and what it may be.
Much appreciated.
Macro size craters as shown by exposures. The so called igneous rocks could be igneous or they could be made by the impact as well as the metamorphic. In any event they are part of the impact excavation. This is true for surface exposed cratering as some craters get covered over time. April 14, 2024.
Provenance and Impact Tectonics - Column Basalt found in combination with plasma cavitation and plasma holes all found on the same beach. While column basalt is believed to be volcanic from raft/plate tectonics, why would you find such clearly impact specimens at the same beach? Volcanoes and earthquakes are a secondary result of earth impacts and raft/plate tectonics is a shadow theory, like Plato's cave. A large meteor/bolide hits earth and breaks the crust causing the up splash of column basalt. Column basalt has never been observed in all the history of volcanic eruptions. It simple takes much more energy. It is the stream of conjoined bubbles compressed by side by side pressure. Raft/plate tectonics is a theory in between right and wrong. There are no other planets with raft/plate tectonics but many with craters. May 30, 2024.
Sally Anne Flaherty · ·
So I’m on holiday at North Berwick. Not too far from Edinburgh Scotland. This beach is littered with rocks like I’ve never seen before they are probably not at all rare but the variety on one small stretch of sand astounds me. The black rock with the pentagonal rods intrigues me. Can anyone help.