The Geological Society of America recently published two new Papers arguing for a hypothetical, Pleistocene Saginaw Bay impact
In their “In the Footsteps of Warren B. Hamilton: New Ideas in Earth Science” volume. They are:
Davias, M.E., and Harris, T.H.S., 2022, Postulating an unconventional location for the missing mid-Pleistocene transition impact: Repaving North America with a cavitated regolith blanket while dispatching Australasian tektites and giving Michigan a thumb, in Foulger, G.R., Hamilton, L.C., Jurdy, D.M., Stein, C.A., Howard, K.A., and Stein, S., eds., In the Footsteps of Warren B. Hamilton:
New Ideas in Earth Science: Geological Society of America Special Paper 553, https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.2553(24).
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/books/book/2323/chapter/132525009/Postulating-an-unconventional-location-for-the
Harris, T.H.S., 2022, Terrestrial ejecta suborbital transport and the rotating frame transform, in Foulger, G.R., Hamilton, L.C., Jurdy,
D.M., Stein, C.A., Howard, K.A., and Stein, S., eds., In the Footsteps of Warren B. Hamilton: New Ideas in Earth Science:
Geological Society of America Special Paper 553, p. 1–22, https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.2553(23). (open access)
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/books/book/2323/chapter/132758923/Terrestrial-ejecta-suborbital-transport-and-the
Klokočník, J., Bezděk, A., and Kostelecký, J., 2022, Gravity field aspects for identification of cosmic impact structures on Earth, in
Foulger, G.R., Hamilton, L.C., Jurdy, D.M., Stein, C.A., Howard, K.A., and Stein, S., eds., In the Footsteps of Warren B. Hamilton:
New Ideas in Earth Science: Geological Society of America Special Paper 553, p. 251–260, https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.2553(21).
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/books/book/2323/chapter/132964534/Gravity-field-aspects-for-identification-of-cosmic
https://www.asu.cas.cz/~jklokocn/spe553-21-final.pdf
The seemingly annual conference presentations by M. E. Davias, about their ideas can be found on their web pages at:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Davias-2/research
Enjoy,
Paul H.
