Hi Floyd, Piper and List, The National Geographic Magazine, June 1928, pp. 720-730. The Mysterious Tomb Of A Giant Meteorite (by William D. Boutwell):
Mystery Still Surrounds The Crater (p. 726, excerpt): "Then geologists began to examine the crater walls more in detail. They observed that the tilted angle of the rock strata varied. On the south side it was raised nearly 90 degrees; on the north side no more than 5 degrees from the horizontal. They noticed that the tilt was progressively greater on both sides from north to south; also, that a whole 2,000-foot sector of the southern wall was lifted vertically about 100 feet. >From this and other evidence the conclusion was reached that the mass of the meteorite struck from the north at an angle, crashed through the limestone and sandstone, and imbedded itself in a harder red sandstone at a point under the south wall of the crater." Best wishes from Germany, Bernd ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
