More References About Geology of “World's Biggest Impact Crater” (??) Region

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 17 15:50:03 EDT 2009

In addition to papers list at:
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2009-October/057487.html and
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2009-October/057488.html
there many more references about the geology of the Bombay High region of the western Indian continental shelf where the so-called “World's Biggest Impact Crater” / "Shiva impact crater" lies tobe found.

They include:

Biswas S K 1982 Rift basins in the western margin of India and their hydrocarbon prospects; American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin. vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 1497-1513.

Biswas S K 1987 Regional tectonic framework, structure and evolution of the western margin basins of India.Tectonophysics, vol. 135, issue 4, pp. 307-327

Biswas, S. K., M. K. Rangaraju, J. Thomas, and S. K. Bhattacharya, 1994, Cambay- Hazad(!) Petroleum System in the South Cambay Basin, India: Chapter 37: Part VI. Case Studies--Eastern Hemisphere. In L. B. Magoon and W. G. Dow, eds., pp. 615-624. Memoir 60,
American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Duncan, R.A., 1990, The volcanic record of the Reunion Hotspot, Proceedings of the ODP, Sciences Results. vol 115, pp. 3–9.

http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/115_SR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/sr115_01.pdf

The above publications shows paleogeographic reconstructions.

Sharma, K. K., 2007, "Cretaceous-Tertiary Tectono-Magmatism in the NW Indian shield: A fragmenting continent."

http://www.mantleplumes.org/NWIndia.html
http://www.mantleplumes.org/WebpagePDFs/NWIndia.pdf

Todal, A., and O. Edholm, 1998, ontinental margin off Western India and Deccan Large Igneous Province. Marine Geophysical Researches. vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 273-291

http://www.springerlink.com/content/g7l126p314673055/

There are a huge number of references listed at the above URL.

The unbroken URL to:

Chatterjee, S., N. Guven, A. Yoshinobu, and P. Donofrio, 2006, Shiva Structure: a possible KT boundary impact crater on the western shelf of India.Special Publications, Museum Texas Tech University. no. 50. is:

http://www.depts.ttu.edu/gesc/Fac_pages/Yoshinobu/Published_pdfs/Chatterjee%20et%20al.%202006.pdf

The link to it can be found on Dr. 's publications page at:

http://www.depts.ttu.edu/gesc/Fac_pages/Yoshinobu/Yosh_publications.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Additional Material Related to “World's Biggest Impact Crater” (??) India

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 17 10:21:48 EDT 2009

Dr. Chatterjee explains the Seychelles-India break-up as the result
of a massive extraterrestrial impact in:

Chatterjee, S., and N. M. Mehrotta, 2009, Significance of the
Contemporaneous Shiva Impact Structure and Deccan Volcanism
at the KT Boundary. Geological Society of America Abstracts
with Programs. vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 160.

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/finalprogram/abstract_160197.htm

The explanation for the Seychelles-India break-up as argued by the
majority of geologists is given in "Age of Seychelles-India break-up" at

http://www.mantleplumes.org/Seychelles.html and in:

Collier, J. S., V. Sansom, O. Ishizuka, R. N. Taylor, T.A. Minshull
and R. B. Whitmarsh, 2008, Age of Seychelles–India break-up,
Earth and Planetary Science Letters. vol. 272, no. 1-2, pp. 264-277

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.045

Both the web page and paper have a list of other papers about
pertaining to the geology of the structure, which Chatterjee argues
to have been created by an asteroid impact.

There is a PDF file of a nonpneer-reviewed paper that discusses h
Chatterjee's hypthesis in greater length. It is:

Chatterjee, S., N. Guven, A. Yoshinobu, and P. Donofrio, 2006, Shiva
Structure: a possible KT boundary impact crater on the western shelf
of India.Special Publications, Museum Texas Tech University. no. 20.

http://www.depts.ttu.edu/gesc/Fac_pages/Yoshinobu/Published_pdfs
/Chatterjee%20et%20al.%202006.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.