The impact was about 50,000 years ago and could not have hit in a more desolate place than near Flagstaff. I had looked down on it flying to ministerial conferences and "Refresher Programs" that were exhausting. To sit there and consider the moment of impact and all that really is was simply amazing to me. I have a piece of vaporized "Meteoric Iron" which is meteorite impacted with earth rock mixed.
Go if you ever get the opportunity. For big projects it beats a shovel! :)
The 6 mile approach to the Meteor Crater wall
A bit closer
Looking over the rim
(I could not get the entire view in one pic)
Rocky upturned debris on the rim above impact point
Looking down the pulverized rim into impact point
Up ended house size strata on the rim
Turned up strata along the crater walls
Taking home a piece of real Earth history
And now we return to our regularly scheduled postings...
It's one of those places where pictures simply don't capture the scale. Worth a visit.
ReplyDeleteI have a piece of metal from that crater on my desk. Also saw some visual on the tidal wave that hit the dinosaur in "wyoming" when THE astroid struck the Gulf of Mexico and half of Yucatan.
ReplyDeleteThat sure beat noah's flood.
I have 10 dinosaurs just miles from the office.
But my span of interest is mostly in humans. Humans in extreme conditions. I like those explorers wandering across the Bering Strait or älong the Ice Wall in Northern Germany 10000 BC. Or perhaps even wandering along the ice wall stretching from Spain to North America.
I enjoy your wandering in the Oregon and Arizona wilderness. It reminds me of my own wandering at the Mesa Verde National Park. From the plateau I could see the Arizona smog, but I imagined it to be the smoke of an astroid impact.
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Bob is no more a scientist than he is a theologian. With a fake degree from an Indian diploma mill, how can any take what he says as true or factual, considering he is a certified liar. The lies he has told to justify his splinter cult start-up are just the tip of the iceberg.
ReplyDeleteWe sound like kindred paleontological spirits NCK. I got into the Missoula Ice Age Food of 15,000 years ago when in Portland, especially how it made Portland look as it does today and the Willamette Meteorite which, at 16,000 lbs of pure iron, was dropped in an ice melt about three miles down from my workplace. It originally was imbedded in the ice sheet above Montana. Cool stuff.
ReplyDeleteSurprisingly , the site is actually privately owned. I thought the ticket price of $18 was a bit steep for the attraction.
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ReplyDeleteSurprisingly , the site is actually privately owned. I thought the ticket price of $18 was a bit steep for the attraction.
Tell me your sad story again? Here are the prices to Fantasy Land in Kentucky for the Bible Literalists
THE ARK ENCOUNTER
Kentucky
Ken Ham
Ages 5 to adult
$15–$48
Ages 5 to adult
$25–$75
before tax
Ages 5 to adult
$79–$499
includes parking | before tax Evidently the first two don't include parking which is an additional $10
Kentucky Fried Chicken is also available there too
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ReplyDeleteAdult (ages 18–59)
$48
Senior (ages 60+)
$38
Youth (ages 11–17)
$25
Children (ages 5–10)
$15
Children (ages 4 and under)
FREE
With
Adult Combo Ticket
(ages 18-59)
$75.00
Package Contents
(1) Web Adult Ark AC GA
(1) Web Adult CM AC GA
Senior Combo Ticket
(ages 60 and up)
$65.00
Package Contents
(1) Web Senior Ark AC GA
(1) Web Senior CM AC GA
Youth Combo Ticket
(ages 11-17)
45.00
Package Contents
(1) Web Youth Ark AC GA
(1) Web Youth CM AC GA
Child Combo Ticket
(ages 5-10)
$25.00
Package Contents
(1) Web Child Ark AC GA
(1) Web Child CM AC GA
4 and Under Combo Ticket
(ages 0-4)
While I differ with you on the dating of the crater Dennis I thank you for sharing your photos. What an awesome place it’d be to visit!
ReplyDeleteWell Dennis, Im sure that we will both agree that the cost for either Ham's attraction or for Meteor Crater is MUCH MUCH less than the entry fee , continuing cost, and full economiic burden of the WCG!
ReplyDeleteBefore the meteor impacted, it was a Near Earth Object.
ReplyDeleteThe pictures brought back some nice memories. My ex-wife and I checked out the meteor crater as we were touring the area to visit the ancient ruins of the Anasazi, her ancestors.
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Yeah Dennis.
ReplyDeleteAs a kid I remember going on a post sermon Feast Activity and seeing 4000 year old stone age graves. The activity had been announced as visiting sites "as old as the pyramids."
I remember the disappointment as expressed by some of the participants "is that all" as he edifices did not resemble the pyramids at all. Personally I was struck for life by the age, engineering and climbing potential.
What a wondrous place it must have been to live downstream the Great ice Wall. Lots of animal, somewhat milder climate, fish.
I must visit Montana once and I am in favor of the efforts of reintroducing Buffalo there since dinosaur would be difficult. I am often at places that look like the beginning of time. Lately I was at the Azores to see whales. I also saw US airmen taking a break half way the Ocean.
nck
Nck I'm All for cloning wooly mammoths to roam free again in Siberia and New York😊👍
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ReplyDeleteHey Dennis,
I have this theory.
First the poor folk at plain at the Isle of Wight got hit.
A couple of years or decaded latern the dam at the Strait of Gibraltar broke and filled the mediteranean plain.
After part of the Mediterrenean plain was filled the large dam at current Istanbul broke and flooded what we now call the Black Sea and used to be a plain also.
Then this guy wrote a song lamenting all that had occured.
Couple of thousand years later someone chisseled the story on clay. Then another wrote his version on parchment.
www.archaeology.org/issues/359-1911/trenches/8086-trenches-england-wooden-platform?fbclid=IwAR1zElZVYm-3hqs6IkfLgugKOrrne-zPUS-c_ykIwg9PKosx5EjgAVH7A64
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Dennis, I'd rather see the Saber Toothed Tiger roaming NYC.
ReplyDeleteOh and Dennis while we're at it.
ReplyDeleteI know volcanoes are a different topic.
However since most of us abhor the idea of the children of Adam and Eve or Noah having "intercourseral relations" since we are programmed in our DNA to refute such utter nonsense as this being a healthy habit.
Therefore my theory about where they could find fair maidens among the hunter gatherers as their agricultural society start up started to ascend.
Of course several possibilities for Mt Ararat can be found around there. This of course was the entire Anatolian high plateau where people survived the previous mentioned floodings of the low lands. (Starting at the "Isle of Whight" North Sea Crossing to what later would be called Brexit land.
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/news/catalhoyuk-mural-the-earliest-representation-of-a-volcanic-eruption/?fbclid=IwAR2ePBRVGyA-BE92x7CkIjypBqfazB4sEP9rtV6vf07Lr-Ro6SVMJdY2pZA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk
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Dennis,
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I late August flew into Bozeman, Montana, rented a vehicle, visited many sites, e.g. Yellowstone Nat'l Park, Grand Tetons, and then to the Sedona, AZ. 6 Sep we visited Meteor Crater and those views you posted describe similar pictures we also took, but there's nothing like visiting this crater and National Parks in the USA in person.
Thanks for sharing,
John