Libyan Desert Glass associated with shocked quartz (Open Access paper)

Libyan Desert Glass associated with shocked quartz (Open Access paper)

Koeberl, C. and Ferri??re, L., 2019. Libyan Desert Glass area in western Egypt: Shocked quartz in bedrock points to a possible deeply eroded impact structure in the region.
Meteoritics & Planetary Science. (Open Access paper)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/maps.13250

" We interpret these observations to indicate that there was a physical impact event, not just an airburst, and that the crater has been almost completely eroded since its formation."

Yours,

Paul H.

Martian Meteor Collision May Have Triggered a 1, 000-Foot Tsunami 06AUG2019

 Martian Meteor Collision May Have Triggered a 1, 000-Foot Tsunami

Martian Meteor Collision May Have Triggered a 1,000-Foot Tsunami

https://www.livescience.com/66088-mars-tsunami-ground-zero.html

https://www.space.com/mars-ocean-mega-tsunami-impact-crater.html

https://bgr.com/2019/08/05/mars-crater-tsunami-study-asteroid/

The paper is:

Costard, F., Sjourn??, A., Lagain, A., Orm, J., Rodriguez, J.A.P.,

Clifford, S., Bouley, S., Kelfoun, K. and Lavigne, F., 2019. 

The Lomonosov Crater Impact Event: A possible Mega tsunami Source on Mars.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019JE006008

Another paper is:

Rodriguez, J.A.P., Fairn, A.G., Tanaka, K.L., Zarroca, M., Linares,

R., Platz, T., Komatsu, G., Miyamoto, H., Kargel, J.S., Yan, J. and

Gulick, V., 2016. Tsunami waves extensively resurfaced the

shorelines of an early Martian ocean. Scientific reports, 6, p.25106.

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep25106

http://cab.inta-csic.es/uploads/noticias/adjuntos/20160519151549.pdf

http://www.cab.inta.es/uploads/noticias/adjuntos/20160519151549.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

PDF file of 2019 Hiawatha “Crater” Poster 05AUG2019

 PDF file of 2019 Hiawatha “Crater” Poster

The Poster is:

 

Garde, A.A., Funder, S., Guvad, C., Kjær, K.H., Larsen, 

N.K., Dahl-Møller, J., Nehrke, G., Sanei, H., Søndergaard, 

A.S. and Weikusat, C., 2019, March. Organic Carbon 

from the Hiawatha Impact Crater, North-West 

Greenland. In Lunar and Planetary Science 

Conference (Vol. 50).

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2019/eposter/1381.pdf

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019LPI....50.1381G/abstract

 

Your,

 

Paul H.

Peer review as the ‘gold standard’?

Peer review as the ‘gold standard’?

Why we shouldn't take peer review as the "gold standard"
It's too easy for bad actors to exploit the process and mislead the public
By Paul D. Thacker and Jon Tennant, Washington Post, August 1, 2019
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-we-shouldnt-take-peer-review-as-the-gold-standard/2019/08/01/fd90749a-b229-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html

The Radical Transformation of the Textbook
Brian Barrett, Wired, august 4, 2019
https://www.wired.com/story/digital-textbooks-radical-transformation/

Yours,

Paul H.