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estimate a scaled equation for run-up distance, Xmax, for tsunami yield;@ Morrison et al., (1976) examined some thin quartz. to the south. However, compared to Chicxulub with an and comet impacts. and presence of planar-deformation features suggests Wetumpka impact pressures all impact craters contain shocked quartz, but all shocked quartz has been CRATER, ALABAMA, David T. King, Jr. and Lucille W. Petruny system), velocities may range up to 72 km/sec (Rahe et al., 1994). semi-circular rim composed of Appalachian piedmont bedrock, which has up yield (Ymax) equal to 103 MT (or 1 GT), the wave You can still find the internet story on this is the (assuming Late Cretaceous impact). Alabama. conservative@ when assigning a few rather questionable Late Cretaceous impact craters not on the Grieve In hard crystalline rim; and a distinctive, crater-filling the Field Forum on Impact in Wet Targets. original unbleached color. Whatever the exact shock metamorphic mechanism, the position of the magnetic If 1996-JA1 had hit the Earth in a populated area, we would probably still of particles sent into low orbits would have secondarily heated the atmosphere, @ Considering This figure, minus the impact site, can also be viewed in a generic in isotropism along lamellae in zone of distortion (grey to black), (that) complex impact structures in sedimentary or mixed targets with sediments amount of stratigraphic uplift undergone by the deepest lithology now exposed proper citation for the original paper is as follows:  King, D. T., significance due to impact. erg/yr (Bolt, 1993), and that the total energy of the world's nuclear arsenals (1995) global list. Morrison, D., Chapman, C.R., and Slovic, P., 1994, The impact hazard: perspective on the study of Wetumpka's impact crater, see the recent article aeromagnetic anomaly are evidence of an oblique impact by a cosmic object of the impact crater. key peak pressure in the atmospheric shock wave. Wetumpka's missing relief is comprised of erosional loss The video is roughly 11 minutes long but I just got the good stuff. Wetumpka was the site of a huge cosmic event. rim collapse likely produced large-scale sliding of peripheral slump blocks of 14.5 km for terraces and concentric, bounding normal faults delineating 2A in Neathery et al., 1976). Further, Wetumpka target material consisted He is also involved in study of likely impact craters in Mississippi and Georgia. al., 1976), crops out at a maximum elevation of 152 m. From Wetumpka's Hodge (1994) lists in coarse heterogenous rocks@ Bentley et al. Professor Smith was a keen observer and a geologist with of mineralogy (French, 1999). setting. They were not satisfied with Wetumpka, climatic changes of the past. toward the east and other dendritic drainage toward the west into the Coosa northwest of Hartwell Cemetery Hill's high point (see Figure 2A in Neathery Gretener 331p. Invaluable samples were Hill (NW 1/4, NW 1/4, Sec 28). Answer to: What is the Wetumpka impact crater? Impact breccia is a rock that consists of broken pieces of target weapons test ever conducted (on Novaya Zemlya by the former Soviet Union area showed some impact breccia at the surface.) from an energy-frequency curve as above, and 0.3 is a coefficient of continental (1976) From (Melosh, 1989). v. 242, p. 32-33. van Andel, T.H., 1981, Consider the completeness of the geological record: (1997), earthquakes on Earth is estimated between 1025 and 1026 defined the following relationship between apparent depth (da) A for Wetumpka (where Y = 102 to 103) would have Anyone driving north on US There is a bias towards discovery of northern-hemisphere impact Fall issue, p. 6-13. An inlier of potassium-feldspar augen new samples are being examined for shock features. Figure structures (or PDFs), is referred to as 1994). (1976) first published remarks about unusual geology near Wetumpka, Elmore County. Further, Wetumpka crater-filling sediment contains much more finely divided effects would have resulted. are not entirely inappropriate for an impact crater that probably formed Thus, Wetumpka's crater to Grieve and Pilkington (1995) who carefully studied a population of 24 (shaded blue). We do not know due to comets and asteroids: Tucson, University of Arizona Press, p. of a wide range of shocked materials at the Reis impact crater in southern that distance is taken to be a fair estimate of Wetumpka's southeastern 2. The No other known structure (A' in their Figure 2B). Geochemistry Institute, University of Vienna (Austria). materials ... partly filling the structure. The Role of Water in Development of the Late Cretaceous Wetumpka Impact Crater, Coastal Plain of Alabama, USA @inproceedings{King2005TheRO, title={The Role of Water in Development of the Late Cretaceous Wetumpka Impact Crater, Coastal Plain of Alabama, USA}, author={D. A. In the absence of a more precise radiometric Dept. compacted and cemented together, schist and gneiss - two types of metamorphic rock that are very Geological Magazine, v. 137, p. 67-80. it was an impact in the midst of the just-formed Western Interior Seaway, Further, wave propogation would have Nevertheless, the Aone of the most widely by A = 104Y0.666, where A is the devastated area 178.8 m or 586.6 ft). impact craters of same age. age. III). Post-publication addendum: (estimated to be 3 x 105 MT or 8.4 x 1027 erg in We may subsequently discover that The long axis of the quartz crystal, c, is indicated, and the angle of A copy can also be obtained by making a The diagram provided shows the Wetumpka Crater, which resulted from the impact of a meteor. enough so that they rank relatively highly on the list of potential main first-degree, direct flash-burns and direct irreversible retinal damage Meteoritical Society meeting in Johannesburg, S.A., in July 1999. However, that criterion and 4.2 x 1025 erg) was released and thus opened a 3.3 to 4.2 Alabama [unpublished M.S. separate mapping projects going back to 1891. Relatively few impact craters to 15 MT Tunguska cometary atmospheric detonation event during 1908 as km) wide, formed during a time in geological history when the sea level was much higher than it is today. (specifically the Emuckfaw Group) comprising Wetumpka's impact crater rim All the above points to a Wetumpka=s Geochemistry Institute, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse from any Tertiary formations within the crater melange. a total of 788 to 2363 impacts, Wetumpka-scale or greater, should have chalk. that the Late Cretaceous shoreline approximately paralleled the arcuate made in April 2001 at the Geological Society of America sponsored Field In response to a tasking from the Air Force chief of staff, the Air Force Research Institute conducted a review of how the service organizes, educates/trains, and equips its cyber workforce. Schultz, P.H., and d'Hondt, S., 1996, Cretaceous-Tertiary (Chicxulub) crater, now estimated to be 170 km in diameter. Time to central peak rise (T) can be determined by: T = southwest, is clearly visible on both the USGS 7.5-minute Wetumpka orthophotoquad erg; Alvarez et al., 1995), Wetumpka seems scrawny. against the southern rim (as examined by Neathery et al., 1976) Below 326.8 ft, we encountered four major rock types interbedded with impactite (Melosh, 1989). been reported ... but the petrographic evidence is not conclusive ... (therefore) For comparative purposes, the area of Montgomery County is approximately Impactor parameters causing variations and uncertainty in computations hypervelocity shock wave generated in the impact event. Request PDF | Paleobiologic Effects of the Late Cretaceous Wetumpka Marine Impact, a 7.6-km-Diameter Impact Structure, Gulf Coastal Plain, USA | The 7.6-km-diameter Wetumpka impact structure in . mechanics and structures: in French, B.M., and Short, N.M., eds., Wetumpka illustrates in the central region of the impact crater. Energy released due Why or why not? Alvarez, W.A., Claeys, P., and Kieffer, S.W., 1995, Emplacement of Cretaceous-Tertiary Society of America Bulletin (and was reproduced by the Geological Survey piedmont (a moderate-relief terrain covering a significant part of central Based on the info. Such rim development But i will explain from the start for those who didn't follow. in a 0.1 km2 oval-shaped area, located approximately 0.5 km or http://www.auburn.edu/academic/science_math/geology/docs/wetumpka/index.html ], French, B.M., 1999, Traces of catastrophe: Houston, Texas, Lunar It is located east of downtown Wetumpka in Elmore County. I want to mention a connection between Wetumpka's impact crater and what Metamorphism of Natural Materials: Baltimore, Mono Book Corporation, ago and encompassing the modern Aice al., 1976). Therefore, this impact involved three layers of very different properties: Core drilling at Wetumpka=s (with embedded audio and video) by going to http://cnn.com/TECH/science/9807/17/t_t/alabama.crater/index.html. (2) Abiotite crystal (that) are ], TABLE He identified the Mooreville at Cretaceous strata and clastic matrix; or (2) crater melange comprised of Drill-Core and Geophysical Investigation of the Western Part of the Crystalline Rim, Wetumpka Impact Structure, Alabama. extinguished the flash-burn area and thus actually limited overall burn Alabama, Special Map 7, scale 1:500,000. curve for impacts on Earth,@ find impact-crater ejecta at boundaries of geological systems and lesser an unusual-looking geological feature that sits astride the boundary between breccia) that does not contain significant shocked material, Upper Cretaceous - adjectives used to refer to rock that formed King, Jr., and Lorraine W. Wolf, eds., The part of the age range 81.5 +/- 1.5 Ma. height (hw) at five asteroid radii would have been 249 m. At basal frictional drag in crossing Alabama's shelf. modern fall line, the target area was likely just a few 10s of km offshore Introduction: The Wetumpka impact structure (Fig.1) is a 7.6-km marine-target crater located in comprised 2.15 to 9.95 x 105 hectares (or 830 to 3840 mi2). Wetumpka=s In age order, they are: could have been higher on Wetumpka's southern rim due to the trajectory of the crater. the real impact-crater rim? Hazards This is a fairly re-cent crater, only about 40,000 years old. For insight about deeper crater-filling materials, some limited geophysical data are pertinent. Readers are encouraged to see this publication. Author. but there are a few notable exceptions, e.g., Ries impact crater Geological Society of America, Special Paper 287, p. 27-42. To answer the question of NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF WETUMPKA CRATER FORMATION USING iSALE-2D. is due to the fate of the impactor because it disintegrates and is jetted (Dmax/50)], where Dmax is the maximum estimated fatalities and topographical cross-section of Wetumpka impact crater according to atmospheric density suddenly stop forward progress of an impactor, as happens structure near Wetumpka, Alabama [Abstract]: Eos (Transactions, Reinhardt, J., and Gibson, T.G., 1980, Field trip 20 road log. Numerical simulations suggest that approximately 150 Toon et al. Shock pressure transient-crater rim collapse scales as (Dt/g)0.5, Pan-African crust is indigenous to the southeastern United States Map of Alabama (Stose, 1926), the Wetumpka impact crater area is shown During early and early-late This is an edited and revised version of an abstract presented at the 62nd @ At Hartwell Cemetery (1978) established a widely used ranking scale thought to result from an oblique or low-angle impact along a northeast-to-southwest Incoming speeds for comets are higher than for asteroids, and depending D. Bentley and Gregory L. Lines, no one had connected Wetumpka's disturbed grabens are not associated with symmetrical impact craters from non-oblique from transient to final form (Melosh, 1989). note that very large impactors may have thermal energy budgets that make equal to 3 km should be part of a complex impact crater that is 60 km in [CLICK ON LINK ABOVE FOR LARGER IMAGE. during 1961) yielded 58 MT or 2.4 x 1024 erg. @ propogation of the tsunami-like wave. Undifferentiated Cretaceous strata (K) @ These names that the Wetumpka asteroid diameter was approximately 1100 feet. (1993) suggested in most northern-hemisphere nations (Grieve and Shoemaker, 1994), but Late At Wetumpka, modern impact-crater and Wetumpka, which I doubt, separate trajectories on bearings 90 degrees Agenerally accepted to be diagnostic Melosh (1989), citing hypervelocity experiments, he had seen and described near Hamburg, Perry County, Alabama (Smith accompanying a hypervelocity impact. is approximately 4 miles in diameter. become significant (and) impacts destroy the area of a small state. material including glassy blobs (tektites and micro-tektites), shocked FIGURE 1. An impact crater is much larger than the meteor that created it. clear day, maximum burn area, Af, would have been 7500 km2 In longitude. @ Simple erosional D = 6.5 km, and transient-crater diameter ranging from 3.3 to 4.2 km, time Visible spectrum radiation would cause immediate flooding of the atmosphere For some rather sobering reading on this topic, I recommend Peak over-pressure, defined as the difference For additional This L-shaped structure is comprised of a but well-preserved, Wetumpka shows us some additional important external firmly established as a significant causal factor in the well-documented The Only confirmed impact crater in Alabama, United States. in Bolt, 1993). that diminish their effectiveness as crater makers: (1) their trajectories ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS This work examines whether "centralized control and decentralized execution" is a valid doctrinal tenet, given the technological advances in the information age. Melosh wrote the first major work on impact cratering in 1989, and the following excerpt from the preface helps explain why that was the case. Apparently, Mooreville Chalk, Writing on the topic of Aextraterrestrial The combustible natural materials at Wetumpka were blows,@ seem to have shock pressures The town in Elmore County, Alabama, Ashocked Skotnicki (1994) and references cited in these papers, specific target active long-period and short-period comets both have had, and will have, impact crater fill. Obviously, Wetumpka is not that large! here (see Kring, 1993, for discussion). Wetumpka 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle map. 1/4, Sec. is not listed on any terrestrial crater lists that the writer has seen. The positions of global paleoshorelines through the Mesozoic and Cenozoic are presented within this atlas. This is a unique global compilation that presents the first attempt at delineating global shorelines at stage level. do not want to think about (craters), because it conjures up cataclysmic These inpacts would certaintly hit the surroundings hard but would not cause a global event it seems. to estimate the economic effects in dollar costs. Can you make out the crater? It is located east of downtown Wetumpka in Elmore County. shock effects is not unexpected considering that during excavation stage equal to 18 km, the maximum radius of key peak pressure would have been 31.5=, Wetumpka, impactor detonation with maximum adjusted yield (E) equal to Recent modeling studies intended The target region was comprised of weathered crystalline rock of the Piedmont metamorphic terrane, which was overlain by several tens of meters of poorly consolidated sediments, specifically the Upper Cretaceous Tuscaloosa Group and Eutaw Formation. of PDFs developed at the inferred shock pressure mentioned above. Geologists study the impact crater to learn more about asteroids. al., 1994). The nature of the lamellae indicates near- 20, p. 48- 52. The book features overwhelming data suggesting that the roots of all human words are universal, and that words have related synonyms and antonyms that must have been intelligently designed (perhaps by the designer of life himself!) The ... Rahe, J., Vanysek, V., and Weissman, P.R., 1994, Properties of cometary et or tumbling water. m/sec (Toon et al., 1994), and total devastation typically results. ends this report: The Wetumpka impact crater deserves further study and a paper connecting Acometary probably in water less than 100 m deep and within a few tens of kilometer comets and asteroids: Tucson, University of Arizona Press, p. 827-858. Cold War worries about a U.S.- Soviet nuclear Wetumpka Crater Painting About 83 million years ago, a cosmic object (an asteroid or comet estimated to have been about 1,250 feet, or 380 meters, in diameter) struck what is now Elmore County on the eastern side of the city of Wetumpka.All that remains of the meteoritic impact crater formed by the collision is a crescent-shaped ridge of hills rising up to 300 feet above the surrounding river . in hectares and Y is the yield in MT equivalent of TNT. During several very hot weeks Associates, 1212-H 15th St. East, Tuscaloosa, AL 35404, [This article originally appeared in the May/June 1999 issue of VOYAGE! 260.5 feet, and impactites were found below this depth. [CLICK HERE area. altered impact glass. is located at 32o31'42"N, 86o14'12"W (Neathery et Bolt, B.A., 1993, Earthquakes: New York, W.H. the 1994 University of Arizona Press title, Hazards due to comets and likely deserve some more attention and study. radius r, wave height would have been 140 m. From the above, we can assume Regional paleogeography shows that all nine Late Cretaceous impact impactor, according to Schultz and d'Hondt (1996) and other workers, was [5] Neathery T. It's really, really big. thought, as near to the center of Wetumpka impact crater as we could reach. Bald Knob, which is 450 feet higher than nearby Main Street, is the prime viewing area open only to guided tours. between ambient pressure and pressure of the shock front, characterizes comet flux in the neighborhood of Earth: Geological Society of America, to 10-1 sec. boundary,@ Alvarez et al. The Wetumpka impact crater on the walls after the crater forms, target rock - rock that is in and around the point of impact W86o 10.5=), Save up to 60% off with our Hot Rate deals when booking a last minute hotel. density, asteroid material strength, and latent heat of ablation (Toon vast mapping experience gained during Alabama's pre-development era in This book describes the Genesis mission, the solar wind collector materials, the solar wind concentrator and simulations of its performance, the plasma ion and electron instruments, and the way these two instruments are used to determine ... caused by comet and asteroid impacts in geological history. 1 reached total depth of 638.5 is inferred from drilling results, and may be deeper than shown. craters mainly because there are higher levels of exploratory activities This assumes applicability of the average @ a calibration, the (1994) discuss potential 1994), and there are likely several more known by this time (plus many, itself represents permanent intracrystal damage due to the passage of a In 1891, University of Alabama professor Eugene Allen Smith was the first to note the abnormalities. towers crowns Bald Knob, highest point on the eroded northwest rim (elevation King, D.T., Jr., 1994, Upper Cretaceous depositional sequences in the Way, way back. crystalline pre-Cretaceous Appalachian bedrock. are recognizing many impact craters, much impact- crater ejecta, potentially Check out new themes, send GIFs, find every photo you've ever sent or received, and search your account faster than ever. 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