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	Meteor Crater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The crater is somewhat misnamed, as it was actually excavated by a meteorite, not a meteor.
		Barringer and his partner, the mathematician and physicist Benjamin C. Tilghman, documented the evidence for the impact theory in papers presented to the U.S. Geological Survey in 1906 and published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
		Barringer's arguments met with skepticism, as there was a general reluctance at the time to consider the role of meteorites in terrestrial geology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barringer_Crater (1400 words)

	Impact crater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An impact crater (impact basin or sometimes crater) is a circular depression on a surface, usually referring to a planet, moon, asteroid, or other celestial body, caused by a collision of a smaller body (meteorite) with the surface.
		In the center of craters on Earth a crater lake often accumulates, and a central island or peak (caused by rebounding crustal rock after the impact) is usually a prominent feature in the lake.
		Few underwater craters have been discovered because of the difficulty of surveying the sea floor; the rapid rate of change of the ocean bottom; and the subduction of the ocean floor into the Earth's interior by processes of plate tectonics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Impact_crater (1993 words)

	Barringer Crater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Barringer Crater, also known as the Meteor Crater, is a famous impact crater created by a meteorite, located about 55 kilometers east of Flagstaff in the northern Arizona desert (USA).
		Barringer's company, the Standard Iron Company, conducted research on the crater between 1903 and 1905, and concluded that the crater had indeed been caused by a violent impact.
		Barringer and his partner, the mathematician and physicist, presented their first papers to the U.S. Geological Survey in 1906, outlining the evidence in support of the impact theory.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Barringer_Crater (832 words)

	meteorcratervisit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After making a mining claim, Barringer and a group of investors started drilling in the crater for a large mass of meteorite he believed to be in the bottom of the crater, and the commercial profits that would be made from its minerals.
		Barringer should be recognized for going against the currant science of his day and believing in the true crater's origin.
		Barringer's interest was in mining the crater for a meteorite he believed to be a the bottom of the crater and the nickel content the meteorite would have.
	www.meteoritearticles.com /meteorcratervisit.html (2411 words)

	AllRefer.com - crater (Geology And Oceanography) - Encyclopedia
		Complex craters have a raised central peak surrounded by a trough and a fractured rim.
		Craters that have been obliterated by erosion over thousands of years, leaving only a circular scar on the earth's surface, are called astroblemes.
		Craters are also commonly formed at the surface opening, or vent, of erupting volcanoes, particularly of the type called cinder cones, where the lava is extruded rather explosively.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/crater.html (582 words)

	Crater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Craters are typically caused by meteorite impacts, although some are caused by volcanic activity (see volcano for more on these).
		In the center of craters on Earth a crater lake often accumulates, and in craters formed by meteorites a central island (caused by rebounding crustal rock after the impact) is usually a prominent feature in the lake.
		Daniel Barringer was one of the first to identify a geological structure as an impact crater, the Barringer Meteorite Crater (or the "Meteor Crater") in Arizona, but at the time his ideas were not widely accepted, and when they were, there was no recognition of the fact that Earth impacts are common in geological terms.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/cr/Crater.htm (1197 words)

	Meteor Impact Craters
		Craters are bowl shaped depressions made when a meteorite collides with a planet or moon.
		This peak is caused by the surface's attempt to rebound from the impact.
		The Barringer's Meteor Crater which is near Winslow, Arizona (see if you can find it on the map at left), is one the worlds most well known craters.
	liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /Academy/SPACE/SolarSystem/Meteors/Craters.html (332 words)

	American West Travelogue - Meteor Crater - Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, Arizona
		This is the best preserved impact crater in the world and the first crater which scientists agreed was caused by an extra-terrestrial impact.
		He believed the asteroid was buried in the crater and that there was a fortune to be made mining the iron.
		Sunset Crater Volcano, located a few miles to the east, was the final eruption along a four mile fissure, a weak spot in the earth's crust.
	www.amwest-travel.com /awt_flagcraters.html (732 words)

	Terrestrial Impact Craters
		In larger craters, however, gravity causes the initially steep crater walls to collapse downward and inward, forming a complex structure with a central peak or peak ring and a shallower depth compared to diameter (1:10 to 1:20).
		The central peak or peak ring of the complex crater is formed as the initial (transient) deep crater floor rebounds from the compressional shock of impact.
		Chemical, isotopic, and age studies demonstrate that the crater is the most probable source for the Ivory Coast tektites, which are found on land in the Ivory Coast region of central Africa and as microtektites in nearby ocean sediments.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/tercrate.htm (2496 words)

	Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites \| American Museum of Natural History
		The story of Meteor Crater, also called Barringer Crater, began 50,000 years ago with an asteroid roughly twice as wide as this hall hurtling to Earth at about 50 times the speed of sound.
		Once the dust and debris settled, the crater sat quietly for tens of thousands of years as the Arizona climate gradually grew drier, helping to preserve evidence of the impact.
		When mining engineer Daniel Barringer first argued in 1906 that an impact formed the crater, he noted that the meteorites and other rock debris around the crater were randomly mixed together in one layer.
	www.amnh.org /exhibitions/permanent/meteorites/impacts/crater.php (843 words)

	Planetary Society
		This crater is buried beneath a kilometer of younger rock.
		The impact causing the crater is believed to have triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs found at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) boundary layer.
		While the crater is filled with water, the central portion of the crater is slightly raised, creating a donut shaped lake.
	www.planetary.org /html/neo/Objects-Impacts/impacts.html (390 words)

	Earth Impact Database
		Barringer, B. 1964 Daniel Moreau Barringer (1860-1929) and his crater (The beginning of the Crater Branch of Meteoritics).
		Fahey, J.J. 1964 Recovery of coesite and stishovite from Coconino sandstone of Meteor Crater, Arizona.
		Foster, G.E. 1957 The Barringer (Arizona) meteorite crater.
	www.unb.ca /passc/ImpactDatabase/images/barringer.htm (2667 words)

	Barringer Meteorite Crater * Meteorites Craters and Impacts
		Recognizing that the Crater is a unique natural land-mark of great scientific importance, strong public interest, and significant educational value, it is the company's long-held policy to maintain the property in as nearly a natural state as possible and to ensure appropriate and controlled access to it by the general public.
		Barringer's attempts to convince the scientific community of the truth of his theory were, of course, intimately connected with his growing need to raise capital for continued drilling.
		The Barringer Meteorite Crater (also known as "Meteor Crater") is a gigantic hole in the middle of the arid sandstone of the Arizona desert.
	www.barringercrater.com /science (10017 words)

	Impact crater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, in 1936, the geologists and revisited Bucher's studies and concluded the craters he studied were probably formed by impacts.
		Armed with the knowledge of shock-metamorphic features, and colleagues at the Dominion Observatory, (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), and of the University of Tübingen in Germany began a methodical search for "impact structures".
		Charles A. Wood and Leif Andersson, New Morphometric Data for Fresh Lunar Craters (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/LPSC./0009//0003669.000.html), 1978, Procedings 9th Lunar and Planet.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Impact_crater (2034 words)

	Geology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barringer Meteor Crater, AZ The Barringer Crater is a gigantic depression in the sandstone desert of Northern Arizona.
		The crater was created about 50,000 years ago by a meteorite smashing into the Earth that was 150 feet across, weighing 300,000 tons, and travelling at about 40,000 miles per hour.
		The meteorite was primarily made of nickel and iron, as evident by the abundance of nickel-iron meteorites found in or around the crater.
	www.utm.edu /departments/ggp/TNgeol/highland/barringer.html (165 words)

	Articles - Daniel Barringer (geologist) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Daniel Barringer graduated from Princeton University in 1879 at the age of 19, and in 1882 graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Law School.
		Upon hearing of the existence of the crater and the meteoritic iron, Barringer became convinced that the crater was of meteoritic origin.
		Barringer died of a heart attack on November 30, 1929, shortly after reading the very persuasive arguments that no iron was to be found.
	gaple.com /articles/Daniel_Barringer_(geologist)?... (672 words)

	ASE: USA Gallery 2 : Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona, USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The crater is 1.2 kilometres in diameter, and 200 metres deep.
		The Barringer Crater was one of the official centres by NASA for training Apollo astronauts.
		The photograph of the whole crater was taken by D.Roddy of the Lunar Planetary Institute.
	www.webschool.org.uk /scitravel/meteor.htm (587 words)

	Meteor Crater Photo Tour
		This telephoto view of the bottom of the crater, as viewed from the north rim.
		The Barringer Meteorite Crater - "Of course I had not been at the crater one day before I knew that the crater was an impact crater..." - Letter of D.M. Barringer to Elihu Thomson, 4/25/1911.
		Meteor Crater Rim Tour - This is a journal of a group that made the hike around the rim.
	jamesmskipper.tripod.com /jamesmskipper/meteor_crater.html (799 words)

	Odessa Crater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For a number of years, the crater was ignored and forgotten by all but Bibbins.
		Instead, he offered five possible hypotheses to its formation, one of them being the fall of a meteorite. ; As for the meteorite theory he noted, "It is of course possible the occurrence of the meteorite fragments....
		The main crater was eventually filled to within six feet of the level of the surrounding plain.
	www.meteoritearticles.com /odessacraterarticle.html (646 words)

	Morien Institute - Terrestrial Impact Craters caused by Asteroids and Meteorites
		Secondly, any crater on dry land would be at the mercy of the elements, and should there have been collisions with cometary debris, or asteroids, in the Amazon Basin, say, then vegetation would without doubt obscure them in a very short time indeed.
		The crater is 28 miles in diameter, and the lake is 16 miles across.
		The Clearwater Lakes craters are the only examples on Earth of a pair of impact craters that were formed simultaneously by two separate meteorite impacts.
	www.morien-institute.org /impact_craters.html (3297 words)

	Barringer Crater Discussion - Mars Rover Blog
		I am happy to hear Barringer crater was surrounded by sources of salts that could flow into the crater.
		Since the Barringer crater is only 50,000 years young, it would be interesting to know how much more concentrated the salts are in the crater.
		In an area with no surface water egress like Barringer Crater, concentrated salt deposits do form as water evaporates, and trying to backcalculate the relative salt concentration at multipple source beds would be difficult.
	www.markcarey.com /mars/discuss-15682-barringer-crater.html (1010 words)

	crater on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A caldera is a much larger crater, typically ranging from 3 to 18 mi (5-30 km) in diameter, and represents a considerable fraction of the volcano's basal diameter.
		Probing the Depths of Crater Lake: During much of its 100 years of National Park status, this national treasure saw little scientific study, despite significant environmental threats.
		The age of the Laguna Hule explosion crater, Costa Rica, and the timing of subsequent tephra eruptions: evidence from lake sediments.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c1/crater.asp (918 words)

	The Tswaing/Soutpan Meteor Crater
		Drilling in the crater has shown that the rocks forming it have been shocked by an explosion, and are not volcanic in origin.
		The absence of such a buried object at the Barringer crater in Arizona caused confusion as to its origins for many years, although in that case traces of the original iron asteroid have been found.
		As the Tswaing crater is slightly smaller than the Barringer crater, we shall assume that the energy of the explosion there was equivalent to 10 million tonnes of TNT.
	www.hartrao.ac.za /other/tswaing/tswaing.html (1129 words)

	Barringer Meteor Crater - Arizona - OutdoorPlaces.Com
		In an instant the 150-foot long meteor was vaporized and a crater, 700 feet deep and one mile wide was formed.
		It is a good thing the meteor didn't hit during modern times, located less than 40 miles east of Flagstaff, the energy released during the impact is estimated to be equal to 200 megatons, more than enough to level the city and surrounding area.
		The tiny dark protrusions on the edge of crater rim are house-sized boulders, placed there after the meteorite struck the ground.
	www.outdoorplaces.com /Destination/secret/barringer (826 words)

	The Barringer Lectures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barringer, a mining engineer, was a pioneer in the study of the meteorite crater.
		The company remains under the ownership of the Barringer family, Drew Barringer, grandson of Daniel Moraeu Barringer, being the current President of the company.
		The company supports research and education in the impact crater and meteorite studies in many ways, most notably through the Barringer Medal which is awarded annually for lifetime contributions to research on craters and related topics.
	www.uark.edu /depts/cosmo/barringr.htm (148 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Barringer Meteor Crater, Arizona
		Barringer Crater, also known as Meteor Crater,” is a 1,300-meter (0.8 mile) diameter, 174-meter (570-feet) deep hole in the flat-lying desert sandstones 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) west of Winslow, Arizona.
		It shows the crater much as a lunar crater might appear through a telescope.
		The ejecta blanket around the crater appears somewhat lighter than the surrounding terrain, perhaps in part due to its altered mineralogic content.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=4598&topic=land (254 words)

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