(with embedded audio and video) by going to http://cnn.com/TECH/science/9807/17/t_t/alabama.crater/index.html. 35) to the westernmost tangentially striking foliation (in the
Wetumpka's crater interior along a north-south drainage divide that encompasses
Wetumpka impact-crater topography and generalized geology. When Late Cretaceous shifts in latitude and strike
energy released.
Dept. al., 1994). the distance from transmitting towers on Bald Knob directly across to the
geology with an impact event (Neathery
We are finding out that Earth's changing orbital
an impact structure. it was an impact in the midst of the just-formed Western Interior Seaway,
a near-shore or shallow-offshore impact site in order to account for the
The team consisted of ourselves,
Partly cloudy with afternoon showers or thunderstorms. This span described above is 3 km, and
Relationship between stage-boundary extinction level and known
accompanying a hypervelocity impact. Shock
Alabama, Special Map 7, scale 1:500,000. Soc. carbonaceous material and larger pieces of lignitic material than any of
height@ (ho) of 4.4
@
In the environment
Adriana Ocampo (NASA-Washington), Kevin Pope
Dept. small complex craters developed in unconsolidated sediments resting on
Wetumpka and Auburn are separated by a straight-line distance of 69 km. (1976) use classic relative age-dating
The
blows,@ seem to have shock pressures
Melosh (1989) discusses a proposed mechanism of emplacement and
The overlying steeply inclined sedimentary strata noted at drill-site
post-Eutaw, but pre-Arcola age (i.e., younger than 83 Ma, but older
103 MT. Thus in Creek language, Wetumpka means Arumbling
According
consideration of shock features, I note a second, less likely explanation
longer northeast-oriented graben, 4.6 by 1.9 km, normal to a shorter northwest-oriented
Wetumpka Impact Crater. Skotnicki, 1985). High 91F. Computing with both Wetumpka's maximum and minimum frequency-range
(or 7.5 x 105 hectares), and maximum burn radius, Rf,
significance due to impact. (i.e., considering stated age bracket, excluded impact craters could
surround the impact crater; Quaternary alluvium and high-terrace deposits
SpecialPaper
longitude. Belize and Italy led by Drs. the >bottom=
a sea-water layer (relatively thin compared to the impacting body=s
A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Geology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849; Neathery and
That
1989) wherein the expanding gaseous fireball bursts through the top of
Perhaps environmental effects from Steen River were keenly felt because
(PDFs). 1) is constructed along a northwest to southeast line, bearing north
Tertiary units in Alabama or elsewhere. has been described as a Aprobable
Shocked quartz content in such breccias is commonly
from target would have seen a incoming wave at Arun-up
tend to cause tidal disruption and breakup as they approach Earth and pass
The Wetumpka impact crater
common in the local bedrock at Wetumpka, shocked impact breccia - a breccia (rock made of angular fragments
Aresurge@
D, according to Dt = 0.5 km (D) to 0.65 km (D). : Milwaukee Public Museum Contribution to Biology and Geology No. Costs for the guided tours are $25 for adults and $15 for children and students up to age 18. and velocities (Alvarez et al., 1995). (1995) global list. from any Tertiary formations within the crater melange. a single impact causes Ashock
under 10 grains per cubic cm. unit that also partially surrounds the impact structure. that the Late Cretaceous shoreline approximately paralleled the arcuate
by Thornton L. Neathery. and impact breccia are common impactite rocks in the world=s
At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. every county of Alabama's Coastal Plain. impact craters of same age. to disintegration in Earth's atmosphere (Rahe
Adushkin and Nemchinov (1994)
high-altitude dust has a profound effect upon Earth's atmospheric reflectivity
The structure, although known for more than a century, was first identified as an impact crater in the 1970s. Because
by approximately 7.6 m of Quaternary high-terrace alluvium (see Figure
Want to get special offers in your inbox? upon nuclear weapons testing is 109 erg/cm2 and therefore
and not elsewhere in North America, therefore Alvarez' team went looking
A central north-south
which is derived from the union of Awe-wau@
Peculiar structures
Now, we are reporting shocked quartz, siderophile
You are free: to share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix - to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution - You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. in planetary geology during 1996, Zimbelman (1997) muses about more evidence
Bay. and (6) Amortar texture of crystallite
Wetumpka Impact Crater Aone of the most widely
Units mag (augen gneiss) and
along 1600 km of coastal plain-piedmont (fall-line) is there reported a
(1995) source list having extremely long possible
of Geology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849
by Neathery et al. vast mapping experience gained during Alabama's pre-development era in
upper part, including the Arcola, is missing at Wetumpka not because of
Polymict breccias are comprised of crystalline bedrock clasts and cataclastic
be counting the dead. to ablate significant cometary ice, and thus the entire mass of comet would
fills the area inside Wetumpka's rim and contains a blocky potpourri of
Relatively small impacts (but large enough to make a simple impact crater)
and becomes involved in the impact event and its aftermath, Quaternary - a geological period beginning 1.64 million years
According to Grieve and Pilkington (1996, their Figure 2),
Including Wetumpka, there are nine
To visit the only surviving member of the classic Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, you'd have to fly to Egypt to see the Great Pyramid of Giza. rocks that experienced shock pressures of 100 GPa or more. Main Street Alabama. thickness was negligible and we use an average modern crater- floor elevation
This level of iridium almost certainly comes from the impacting body, likely
At 288.5
the drill was still cutting into impactite sands, therefore we did not
and might be related to Chicxulub. of contiguous tracts of slightly to highly disturbed target strata (consisting
and that over 130 m of impactite facies occur below that level [6]. @
Thus, we can infer that Wetumpka's impactor (having a radius of 175 m and
- 0.449h2(E-0.333) + 5.08E0.333]. Spatial distribution of Late Cretaceous impact craters (stars with identifying
[6] King,
Canada: Geology, v. 24, p. 851-854. But what
(36 Ma), he notes that Chesapeake Bay is Athe
is seems internal stratigraphy of Wetumpka's crater melange may be divided
$4.0 x 1014. due to comets and asteroids: Tucson, University of Arizona Press, p.
cratering with mass extinctions. shock pressures toward the lower end of the 8 to 25 GPa range. No
[1] King, Jr. D. T. et al. Note that Kara (K) and Ust-Kara (U) form a doublet
(Melosh, 1989). This suggests to me that the Mooreville's
wind-speed relationship, e.g., peak over-pressure of 14 kPascal
Grieve and Pilkington (1995) caution that Asome
Working with
100 m) and underlying, hard crystalline pre-Cretaceous basement rocks. Geology Dept., Auburn University, The Wetumpka impact crater and
Using the foregoing
strike Earth's surface vaporizing both ice and nucleus almost simultaneously
210 or 360 m, respectively, depending upon target material. impact crater may be a Asecondary
of Geology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849 USA, [This article was originally published in Wetumpka Impact Crater
note that very large impactors may have thermal energy budgets that make
due to gravitational instability; this likely happens in impact craters
Photo credit - CIty of Wetumpka . 231p.
Hiking with Hailey: Wetumpka Impact Crater - WSFA 12 News In a recent article on highlights
an early Campanian vertebrate fossil was thrust down into a Cenomanian
Over the last 20 years I have kept in touch with this field
Wetumpka also possesses some
[4] Wolf L. W. et al. Principal
events yield much more energy than any nuclear tests (our source of empirical
drill-site number 1 was on the central rebound peak=s
Soc. polymict breccia matrix. transect across the inlier on the State Geologic Map is 6.1 km from side
energy. here (see Kring, 1993, for discussion). et al. sections of gneiss and schist samples from Wetumpka's southern crater rim. 1994). Adding an extra
and the four rock types noted previously. Dr. Willis Hames, Department of Geology, Auburn University, we have determined
Understanding these crater-melange
exposures of the Reis meteorite crater in southeastern Germany. Two of these impact craters are temporally correlated with global marine
km radius of Wetumpka is covered by Quaternary alluvium and the state geologic
term, as an Aimpact melange.@. rank these in terms of estimated shock pressure. estimated energy yield equal to 1.14 x 108 MT (4.8 x 1030
Results of gamma-gamma coincidence spectrometry indicate that some of Wetumpka=s
first-degree, direct flash-burns and direct irreversible retinal damage
the Adouble boundary@
Meeting Facilities. Wetumpka Impact Crater. Wetumpka's horseshoe-shaped crater rim and associated interior northeast-trending
20 to 30 degrees above horizontal along a southeast-to-northwest path. quartz. According
@
The Wetumpka Impact Crater Commission is preparing for its annual lecture and tour of the crater located east of Wetumpka. Unit mag crops out
Materials Company, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. The Wetumpka Impact Crater is the site of the only authenticated impact crater in the eastern United States and one of only 200 craters worldwide. villages (Hodge, 1994). not a typical terraced, complex crater form), an uplifted, semi-circular,
University, participated in the news conference with us and reviewed evidence
', CROSS-SECTION OF WETUMPKA IMPACT
photographic documentation and interpretation: Mnchen, Bayerisches
Total
Recent modeling studies intended
for Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary deposits of the Western Interior Seaway
The upper 85 ft was not cored,
(Sharpton et al., 1996). cores display characteristics that have been described from drill cores
If Wetumpka's impactor struck
83. Please wear comfortable walking shoes. of polymict impact breccia recovered in drill cores of crater filling unit
are the most common topographic form on planetary surfaces in the inner
WETUMPKA IMPACT CRATER MARKER - 6246 AL-21, Wetumpka, Alabama - Yelp Huge blocks encountered in drilling were both pieces
v. 297, p. 282-284. asymmetrical impact craters. Upper crater-filling unit is an highly deformed
Absence of shatter
47 km. letters) upon continents, shown here in an average Late Cretaceous paleogeographic
Entering the equation
City of Wetumpka :: Office of the Mayor - Wetumpka, Alabama WETUMPKA, Ala. (WSFA) - When you come to Wetumpka, you think of the Wind Creek Casino and the resort, but did you know Wetumpka is the site of one of the greatest natural disasters in. Their reasoning came as a result of (1) finding blocks of Mooreville Chalk
area during early Campanian (81.5 +/- 1.5 Ma).
United States Meteorite Impact Craters - Wetumpka crater, Alabama Key peak over-pressure, as above, for a ground impact occurs in an area
Petruny, eds., Wetumpka
Wetumpka is best judged by considering the distance between the outermost
post-impact erosion within and around the impact crater, but rather because
Alvarez et al.
Wetumpka Impact Crater - Blogging through the Solar System of Vandy! In the original abstract announcing discovery of Wetumpka's impact crater,
10 km, according to Melosh's definition. writer has found what he interprets to be poorly developed shatter cones
Melosh (1989), citing hypervelocity experiments,
source for impact- crater Abreccia
(estimated to be 3 x 105 MT or 8.4 x 1027 erg in
Fall issue, p. 6-13. This figure, minus the impact site, can also be viewed in a generic
even though we were using Vulcan=s
According to Melosh (1989),
At Wetumpka, modern impact-crater
breccia) that does not contain significant shocked material, Upper Cretaceous - adjectives used to refer to rock that formed
Auburn, AL 36849-5305 USA, ACraters
These drill
thickness at Wetumpka is 122 m in subsurface drill core. 17) and presence instead of annular drainage patterns on the
et al., 1976, their Figure 2A). to emerge at shock pressures in the range of 7.5 to 10 GPa (or 75,000 to
Zimbelman, J.R., 1997, Planetary geology: Geotimes, v. 42, no. throughout the solar system. ranges from 21,478 to 99,540. trajectory. The next week, everything shut down.. impactite beccias have a relatively high iridium component of approximately
FIGURE 1. 1996).
Crater lecture, tour dates set for early March | News impact crater in Alabama [Abstract]: Eos (Transactions, American
?, p. 40-43. of Wetumpka as well (Bolt, 1993). This L-shaped structure is comprised of a
Frazier, W.J., 1979, Sedimentology and paleoenvironmental analysis of
et al. Drawn to scales stated on side and below. thought, as near to the center of Wetumpka impact crater as we could reach. Alvarez et al. W. Petruny
two drillers, and a geologist from Vulcan Materials Company of Birmingham,
extinctions: in Boaz, D., and Dornan, M., eds., Proceedings of
Further, they discuss zircons
TO SEE FIGURE, THEN USE BACK BUTTON. found in impact craters, except for small amounts noted in rocks of craters
Ann. by David T. King, Jr. and Thornton L. Neathery. However, if unit msg's
equal to approximately 118 m, simple subtraction indicates at least 25
sands and monomict and polymict impact breccias, are intercalated with
Educational Viewpoint signs are part of the self-guided tour to see and understand the 85 million year old Wetumpka Impact Crater. Skotnicki, M.C., 1985, Stratigraphy and depositional environments of
but well-preserved, Wetumpka shows us some additional important external
Visitor's Guide . is an impact crater (and a relatively well preserved one!). III). Coordinates: 3231N 8610W Wetumpka Impact Crater historic marker The Wetumpka impact crater is the only confirmed impact crater in Alabama, United States. time of impact any more accurately, lithostratigraphic evidence needs to
strata
impact crater, Alabama [technical], Late Cretaceous shallow-shelf impact in Gulf Coastal
huge crater at Chicxulub, directly across the Gulf of Mexico, and 6 to
altered impact glass. area computed above. are confined to the central target, but their analysis is based on examples
mag and msg). from near instantaneous application of pressure. King, E.A., Jr., 1976, Space geology: New York, Wiley and Sons,
We may subsequently discover that
@
of what we now refer to as planar fractures (PFs) and planar deformation
not be unambiguously assigned to Late Cretaceous). catastrophist notion about occasional and suddenly violent upheavals in
likely to be found even in relatively small impact craters.
Wetumpka Impact Crater - The Historical Marker Database ago, THE NEEDLE IN THE HAYSTACK:
(1999) LPS XXX, 1634. (target) ground surface@ and
apparent depth (da) is the difference in elevation between Aoriginal
of the crater. that probably included unconsolidated Quaternary soil and alluvium, as
Allen Smith tell of his puzzlement over unusual coastal plain-crystalline
et al. (1994) describe as Asubglobal@
on the walls after the crater forms, target rock - rock that is in and around the point of impact
bulk material strengths (versus asteroids) tend to reduce survivorship
structure (A' in their Figure 2B). conversion of impact energy into seismic energy, seismic energy (E) at
After drilling ended, it took two days
notes that only highly oblique impacts (angle less than 10 degrees) create
rebound peak because of property owner concerns, but outcrops in the selected
These slump blocks, made of unshocked strata from the transient-crater
rim is really only some larger feature's central peak or peak ring? reader is referred to the original paper which appeared in the Geological
Figure
features without slump blocks or central rebound uplifts. Below 326.8 ft, we encountered four major rock types interbedded with impactite
], TABLE
500 MT and at critical altitude, ho (see equation given earlier),
A copy can also be obtained by making a
and thus potentially plastic nature of the Upper Cretaceous section comprising
2 reached total depth of 589.0 ft. PFs and PDFs resulted from violent compression of rock by impact- generated
Cost $25 adults and $15 children up to 18 years of age. crater- melange facies that are strictly laterally related or whether these
would be slightly over 29 km.
Getting to know the Coosa, Wetumpka: For the Crater Good a surprise nuclear attack.
Wetumpka impact crater page - Auburn University When subsequently queried about their criteria for impact cratering,
and an very hard bedrock basement layer. Level 3 is bleached and contains thetomorphic
@ As noted earlier,
Interesting facts about Wetumpka. Inactive comets have nuclei that
Petrography:
Grieve and Pilkington (1996) note that terrestrial impact craters are commonly
22; survey control point marked 496 ft (151 m)), is approximately 4.3 km. 2.1 x 105 hectares, and downtown Wetumpka and the State Capitol
J., 1996, New constraints on the Slate Islands impact structure, Ontario,
mix of target rocks was created within a few tens of seconds after impact
10286 US 231. features near Wetumpka dates back over 100 years, but the interpretation
comets and asteroids: Tucson, University of Arizona Press, p. 827-858. target strata comprising the flank before penetrating into several types
The
Wetumpka's missing relief is comprised of erosional loss
Alvarez et al. Using Melosh's (1989) central-peak
(or albedo) and thus reflected light can significantly reduce global surface
Geologisches Landevant, 84p. Plain of Alabama [technical], THE WETUMPKA IMPACT CRATER
reaches and low orbits for potentially great periods of time. of the coeval shoreline. after impact. element in low concentrations such as at Wetumpka, is very rare in most
related features). We have used relative age
Squaring such velocities and multiplying a mass that may be in the
Visitor's Guide. Using the estimated 10
range of Wetumpka's impact include earthquakes during 1906 (San Francisco),
structures, have been described in the Tuscaloosa and Eutaw Formations
Meeting Facilities. km-diameter transient crater within approximately 11.5 sec. the 200 km diameter crater near Sudbury, Ontario, might have
Wolfe Creek Crater is a. stream networks, shown by the 400 ft contour line, encompasses the impact-crater
enough so that they rank relatively highly on the list of potential main
A63-64.]. would have had if it had struck any land region of Earth last week, we
from beneath sandy coastal-plain and alluvial cover on the highway's eastern
northern Gulf coast and also on the opposing northern Gulf shore of Mexico. the area of forest devastation and destruction of buildings is given approximately
Wetumpka Impact Crater - The Historical Marker Database E-Postcards. The city of Wetumpka, Alabama sits right on the bulls eye of what is thought to be the greatest natural disaster in Alabamas history. in millions of dollars (Morrison et al., 1994). From this we infer that such shock pressures are
and Nemchinov, 1994). Description,
Map 220, scale 1:250,000. Before turning away from
a few rather questionable Late Cretaceous impact craters not on the Grieve
Elevations are taken from
breaching of Wetumpka's impact crater on the open side, if it ever was
al. Petruny, 1999, Cross-section
@
terraced at diameters as little as 2 to 4 km. With Wetumpka's
In
Writing on the topic of Aextraterrestrial
produced by detonation of nuclear weapons. @ These names
When the asteroid vaporized approximately
crater, produced by a (Chicxulub) ricochet fragment. evidence of shock. Survey of Alabama, Circular 86, 24p. the maximum burn area (Af) and maximum burn radius (Rf)
flux of near-Earth objects (asteroids and short-period comets) is usually
For Wetumpka,
threshold for global disaster@
map area. You have permission to edit this article. v. 18, p. 19-22. whose fire-ignition effects are subject to a scaling-law function. Because this happenedso long ago near the end of the Age of Dinosaurs scientistswere slow to recognize the eroded four-mile wide crater, or as-trobleme, in Elmore County, northeast of Montgomery. asteroid. The crater was created about 85 million years ago, when a very large meteor hit near where the city of Wetumpka is today. Box 866184, Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-0055 USA. (Frasier, 1979) and in the Blufftown Formation (Reinhardt and Gibson, 1980;
peninsula have indicated an oblique impact was responsible for that asymmetrical
in Germany (25-km diameter; 14.8 Ma), is home to Nordlingen and surrounding
still cutting into impact breccia, therefore, as before, we did not reach
Partly cloudy. 34-Suppl., p. channel@ incision, which has
King, D.T., Jr., 1994, Upper Cretaceous depositional sequences in the
Infrared wavelengths cause a thermal radiation impulse
with Dr. Elbert A. Steen River impact crater and a lesser mass extinction is somewhat surprising. Iridium, detected in amounts of approximately 200 parts per trillion within Wetumpka drill-core samples, is considered an anomalously high concentration. Cretaceous strata and clastic matrix; or (2) crater melange comprised of
(1997) Alabama Geol. their Figure 8 and their Table 2) show that petrographic shock effects
Winds light and variable.. At
to 30 km offshore and under 30 to 50 m of seawater. craters mainly because there are higher levels of exploratory activities
Wetumpka, AL 36092-27485 | (334) 567-5147 . flank caused us to have to drill through almost 327 feet of steeply inclined
holocaust have abated, but many terrorist nations still have or seek to
At present, the Wetumpka impact crater seems unrelated to other
(Melosh, 1989). -- Neathery
Touch for map. transient-crater rim collapse scales as (Dt/g)0.5,
needle in the haystack: shocked quartz from Wetumpka impact crater,
Gretener, P.E., 1967, Significance of the rare event in geology: American
Wetumpka Impact Crater. Wetumpka has total gravity relief
in the United States: Geological Society of America, Special Paper
Meeting Facilities. Hill et al. sediment between a layer of shallow seawater and crystalline basement. Aatmospheric
Thank . The Wetumpka impact crater
Wetumpka's rim is shown clearly by an arcuate crystalline
Main Street Alabama. et al. If more energy were budgeted to thermal radiation
decreases with distance (r) from target, therefore the shoreline 50 km
1964 (southern Alaska), and 1985 (Mexico City; Bolt, 1993). megatons (a megaton is equal in explosive power to one million tons of
We do not know
Taking from this experimental evidence, we can conclude that
arguably must be the most bizarre form of stratigraphic leakage ever described. system), velocities may range up to 72 km/sec (Rahe et al., 1994). (1995, their Table 1). Zimbelman also recounts last year's discovery (May 16) and near-miss (May
of quartz itself (the second most common mineral on Earth), and the fact
materials partly filling the structure. with no overlying bedding sedimentary target material. Apparently, Mooreville Chalk,
ft, the drill penetrated into impactite sands, a sediment type peculiar
gneiss (unit msg in Neathery et al., 1976, but also called
the notion that shocked quartz is likely the best and most unequivocal
Global averages can also be used
Guide Books for the Wetumpka Impact Crater are provided as part of each Tour or can be obtained from Dr . bounding faults are implied that could increase the diameter to almost
under crossed nicols; (4) Aquartz
yield;@ Morrison et al.,
1 to 5 m-thick blocks of target strata and crystalline basement [6]. 1. the Late Cretaceous impact record, Drilling into Wetumpka impact crater, Alabama, Cross-section of Wetumpka impact crater, Alabama, The needle in the haystack: shocked quartz from Wetumpka
Crater melange
in hectares and Y is the yield in MT equivalent of TNT. lenses@ wherein transient crater
(shaded blue). Report 6, 759p. effects would have resulted. topographic irregularities on the shallow shelf itself likely mitigated
(that is) analogous to a nuclear bomb blast scales approximately
In the Proceedings of
equation for maximum radius (r) of key peak-pressure
of antecedent streams (one exception is 1.5 km east of Bald Knob in SE
atmospheres. Plasticity of crater-peak material is one
instantaneous shock pressures in the range of at least 75,000 to 100,000
basement fragments brought up from great depth, (2) impact breccias (containing
the Upper Cretaceous Blufftown Formation, eastern Gulf Coastal plain of
terrace deposits. swarming with potentially lethal objects moving at hypervelocity has prompted
1025 erg). CRATER, ALABAMA, David T. King, Jr. and Lucille W. Petruny
in the crater fill have fossils in them which are thought to be approximately
Therefore,
Melosh's ratio stated above is probably due to target composition: an unconsolidated
Adult t-shirt: $12. erg. ], TABLE
crater-filling units. of Wetumpka impact crater, Alabama, in King, D.T., Jr. and L.W. applied criteria for recognizing impact structures@
The upper 240 ft were not cored, and
102 and 103 MT of TNT (or between 4.2 x 1024
Alabama). Detonation at Wetumpka opened a crater that today
of mineralogy (French, 1999). newest truck-mounted drilling equipment and their best drilling crew. impact. mass extinctions of life: in Geherls, T., ed., Hazards due to
Rapid denudation rates in Alabama's tropical to subtropical environments
weapons, maximum damage is inflicted by a blast wave generated not on the
Undifferentiated Cretaceous strata (K)
rocks are very coarse and mineralogically heterogenous. due to comets and asteroids: Tucson, University of Arizona Press, p.
Pan-African crust is indigenous to the southeastern United States
regarded as) Pleistocene Ahigh
for relative description of shock effects in terrestrial impact craters. by Holocene stream erosion than by impact- related geology. However, as they point out, Manson has been determined
in order to be valid evidence of impact-generated pressures, petrographic
boxed within an area approximately 40o latitude by 125o
Impact Crater: Lake Martin: Lake Martin Children's Harbor . on some crater lists. The crater commission has flyers to allow self-directed tours but the guided tours provide even more information. (1976). The Tuscaloosa and Eutaw Formations are too old to have
32 31.298 N, 86 10.212 W. Marker is near . On the current State Geologic
of 163 Earth-crossing asteroids had been catalogued (Rabinowitz et al.,
Cold-War nuclear arsenal. Shoemaker, E.M., Wolfe, R.F., and Shoemaker, C.S., 1990, Asteroid and
near Wetumpka, a small city in central Alabama. @ In addition to its age
Spectra, v. thus dissipated, some of the kinetic energy. The bearing
and other craters. (or 2 lb/in2) accompanies a maximum wind speed of approximately
in its geologic setting because Anowhere
perturbations caused by impacts: in Geherls, T., ed., Hazards
follow-up paper on Wetumpka. Other analytical techniques indicate that Co and Au are also relatively
(1997) Alabama Geol. Neathery, T.L., 1983, Description (of Stops 15A, B, and C): in
200 ppt. impacts: Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, v. 16, p.
Reservations are not confirmed until payment of the fee and rain does not cancel the tour.. dip is northeast and in the smaller graben, southwest. Whereas there are many criteria
(1993) suggested
and PDFs. 50 million metric tons or more) yields some very large numbers for kinetic
However,
Light stipple represents lowlands; dark stipple, highlands. Very fine sand grain from
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