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Search for, and study of, paleozoic impact ejecta : Progress made during the past year

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Read, William F.
Published
May 1, 1987.
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Nodule-like objects which the author believes to be impact bombs had been found in Middle Ordovician rocks of southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. In northern Illinois, rock fragments containing oolith-like spherules, which the author believes to be solidified impact droplets, and numerous large bubble-holes, had been found at the same stratigraphic level. The discovery of bomb-like nodules in Lower Ordovician rocks of southeastern Wisconsin was reported. Bomb-type nodules associated with droplet-type spherules have been found in Lower Ordovician rocks of central Pennsylvania. These discoveries, in the authors opinion, suffice to show that impact ejecta are widespread in marine sediments of Ordovician age and are likely to be widespread also in marine sediments of other ages. Unfortunately, according to the author, there is little indication so far that this evidence has been accepted as valid by the concerned scientific community.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 19870014081.
Accession ID: 87N23514.
NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1986; p 439-440.
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