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Monday 18 December 2006

100, 000 to 200, 000 BP Western Desert of Egypt Impact

100, 000 to 200, 000 BP Western Desert of Egypt Impact

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 18 09:58:49 EST 2006

Dear Friends,

A paper about a proposed Pleistocene impact in the
western Desert of Egypt is in press in the Earth and
Planetary Science Letters.

It is:

Osinski, G. R., H. P. Schwarcz, J. R. Smith, M. R.
Kleindienst, A. F.C. Haldemann and C. S. Churcher.
in Press, Evidence for a 200-100 ka meteorite impact
in the Western Desert of Egypt. Earth and Planetary
Science Letters. available online December 2006

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0012821X

This paper argues that unusual silicate glasses found
near the Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt is the
result of either a "cratering event or a large aerial burst",
which occurred about 100,000 to 200,000 year ago
according to Ar/Ar dating and geoarcaheological
evidence.

Some web pages:

1. Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
http://epsc.wustl.edu/~kieniewicz/dakhleh_oasis.htm

2. Excavations at Mut el-Kharab, Dakhleh Oasis
http://arts.monash.edu.au/archaeology/excavations/dakhleh/index.html
http://arts.monash.edu.au/archaeology/excavations/dakhleh/mut-el-kharab/index.html

3. Haldemann, A. F. C., M. R. Kleindienst, C. S.
Churcher, J. R. Smith, H. Schwarcz, K. Markham, and
G. Osinski, 2005, Mapping Impact Modified Sediments:
Subtle Remote-Sensing Signatures of the Dakhleh
Oasis Catastrophic Event, Western Desert, Egypt.
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #37, #17.03;
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.648

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005DPS....37.1703H

Yours,

Paul H.