In meteorite_hunters@yahoogroups.com,
\"dwschaffer" wrote:
>
>I'm new and haven't started searching yet, but
>I see that I apparently live in the area of
>the Chesapeake Bay crater (Gloucester County,
>Virginia). If anyone knows information about
>this crater, any finds from it, or local
>hunting groups, I would greatly appreciate
>you response.

Unfortunately, the Chesapeake Bay crater lies buried
by over a 1,000 feet of post-impact strata. Thus,
it is highly unlikely that you will find anything at
the surface related to it. However, the tektites
found in Georgia and Texas are ejecta from from this
impact. This is discussed in:

Deutsch, A., C. and C. Koeberl, 2006, Establishing
the link between the Chesapeake Bay impact structure
and the North American tektite strewn field: The Sr-Nd
isotopic evidence. Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
vol. 41, pp. 689-703.

http://www.univie.ac.at/geochemistry/koeberl/publikation_list/284-Chesapeake-Bay-tektite-link-isotopes-MAPS2006.pdf

and http://www.univie.ac.at/geochemistry/koeberl/publikation_list/


Some web pages:

1. Site report for USGS test holes drilled at Cape
Charles, Northampton County, Virginia, in 2004

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1094/

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1094/ofr2007-1094.pdf


2. The USGS Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater Project

http://geology.er.usgs.gov/eespteam/crater/


3. The Chesapeake Bay Bolide Impact: A New View of
Coastal Plain Evolution

http://marine.er.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/fs49-98/


4. Project Publication List

http://geology.er.usgs.gov/eespteam/crater/cbic_pubs.htm


5. Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure Deep Drilling
Project

http://www.icdp-online.org/sites/chesapeake/news/news.html


6. Gohn, G. S., C. Koeberl, K. g. Miller, W. U. Reimold,
C. S. Cockell, J. W. Horton, Jr., W. E. Sanford, and
M. A. Voytek, 2006, Chesapeake Bay impact structure
drilled. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical
Union. vol. 87, pp. 349, 355.

http://www.univie.ac.at/geochemistry/koeberl/publikation_list/289-Chesapeake-drilling-completed-EOS-2006.pdf

and http://www.univie.ac.at/geochemistry/koeberl/publikation_list/


7. Gohn G. S., C. Koeberl, K. G. Miller, W. U. Reimold,
J. V. Browning, C. S. Cockell, J. W. Horton, T. Kenkmann,
A. A. Kulpecz, D. S. Powars, W. E. Sanford W.E., and M. A.
Voytek, 2008) Deep drilling into the Chesapeake Bay impact
structure. Science. vol. 320, pp. 1740-1745.

http://www.univie.ac.at/geochemistry/koeberl/publikation_list/317-Chesapeake-Bay-crater-drilling-Science-2008.pdf

and http://www.univie.ac.at/geochemistry/koeberl/publikation_list/


8. Hayden, T., M. Kominz, D. S. Powars, L. E. Edwards,
K. G. Miller, J. V. Browning, and A. A. Kulpecz, 2008,
Impact effects and regional tectonic insights:
Backstripping the Chesapeake Bay impact structure.
Geology, v. 36, pp.. 327-330.

http://geology.rutgers.edu/kgmpdf/08-Hayden.Geology.pdf

and http://geology.rutgers.edu/miller.shtml


9. Gohn, G. S., C. Koeberl, K. G. Miller, and W. U.
Reimold, 2009, Deep drilling in the Chesapeake Bay impact structure—An overview, in G. S. Gohn, and others, eds.,
The ICDP-USGS Deep Drilling Project in the Chesapeake Bay
Impact Structure: Results from the Eyreville Core Holes.
Geological Society of America Special Paper. no. 458,
pp. 1-20.

http://geology.rutgers.edu/kgmpdf/09-Gohn.GSASP.pdf

and http://geology.rutgers.edu/miller.shtml


10. Kulpecz, A. A., K. G. Miller, J. V. Browning,
L. E. Edwards, D. S. Powars, P. P. McLaughlin, Jr.,
A. D. Harris, and M. D. Feigenson, M.D., 2009, Post-impact
deposition in the Chesapeake Bay impact structure:
Variations in eustasy, compaction, sediment supply,
and passive-aggressive tectonism, in G. S. Gohn,
and others, eds., The ICDP-USGS Deep Drilling Project
in the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: Results from
the Eyreville Core Holes. Geological Society of America
Special Paper. no. 458, pp. 811-837.

http://geology.rutgers.edu/kgmpdf/09-Kulpecz.GSASP.pdf

and http://geology.rutgers.edu/miller.shtml


One early summary paper is:

Poag, C. W., 1997, The Chesapeake Bay bolide impact: a
convulsive event in Atlantic Coastal Plain evolution.
Sedimentary Geology, vol. 108, pp. 45-90.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0037-0738
(96)00048-6

Yours,

Paul H.