Missouri Impact Craters Guidebooks Now Online as PDF Files

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 30 09:37:43 EDT 2006

The field trips guidebooks for the May 21-23, 2005
conference, The Sedimentary Record of Meteorite
Impacts in Springfield, Missouri can be downloaded
as PDF files online. The two guidebooks are:

Field Trip 1: Geology of the Weaubleau-Osceola
Structure, Southwestern Missouri, Sunday, May 22,
2005 by Kevin R. Evans, James F. Miller, and
George H. Davis

and Field Trip 2: Geology of the Decaturville and
Crooked Creek Structures, Southern Missouri,
Monday, May 23, 2005 by Patrick S. Mulvany, Kevin
R. Evans, and George H. Davis.

They can downloaded as a single 2.6 MB PDF file from:

http://geosciences.missouristate.edu/geology/SEPMRC/SEPMRC_guidebook.pdf

The link to this guidebook is "Download the Field Trips
Guidebook (pdf)”, which is found on the “SEPM Research
Conference, The Sedimentary Record of Meteorite
Impacts” web page at:

http://geosciences.missouristate.edu/geology/SEPMRC/conference.html

Another guidebook to the geology of the Weaubleau-
Osceola Structure is;

Evans, Kevin R.; Mickus, Kevin L.; & Rovey, Charles
W. III, 2003, The Weaubleau Structure: Evidence of
a Mississippian Meteorite Impact in Southwestern
Missouri. Association of Missouri Geologists Field
Trip Guidebook, 50th Annual Meeting. Missouri
Department of Natural Resources.

This 3.8 MB PDF file of this guidebook can be
downloaded from:

http://geosciences.missouristate.edu/geology/RI-75(2003AMGguidebook).pdf

The link to this PDF file can be found in "RECENT
FIELD TRIPS" web page as "Guidebook Published by
Missouri Geological Survey for the 2002 Meeting of
the Association of Missouri Geologists (PDF*)" at;

http://geosciences.missouristate.edu/Fieldtrips.htm

A link to web pages showing images of the Ries impact
crater are also found on the same web page. The URL
for this web page is:

http://geosciences.missouristate.edu/geology/FieldTrips/Ries/default.html

Best Regards,

Paul H.