METEOR IMPACT NEW MEXICO USA / Shatter Cones / EXPOSED Heart of a CRATER / UNUSUAL GEOLOGY 

It was a whole new thing for me also. They are so rare that I never learned about them in geology classes. I was so excited to see shatter cones and learn their story!

Thank you. It was a lot of fun to learn about and research. Take care.

Research sandstone concretions / Moqui marbles.

Thanks so much. I will look into it some more. Really appreciate you taking the time to share and commenting. I love learning new things.

Sarah- you are correct. We often see shocked quartz in and around meteor craters. The researchers did see evidence of quartz alteration in microscope samples, however they did not refer to it as shocked quartz. It is probably due to the shatter cones forming so deep below the impact that there is not enough force to shatter the quartz. However I am not an expert in this area. I really appreciate the comment. Thank you.

Shocked quartz was discovered by Eugene Shoemaker at Arizona's Barringer Meteor Crater and also at sites of subterranean nuclear blast sites such as Teapot ESS in Nevada. A Russian geologist named Stishov had made similar discoveries in the former USSR at about the same time. Combining their research, Shoemaker and Stishov named their discoveries _coesite_ and _Stishovite,_ respectively. It was Shoemaker's discovery at Meteor Crater that finally proved beyond any doubt that MC is, indeed, a meteor impact site as no other natural occurrence could have caused sufficient force to change the crystalline structure of quartz.

@@-oiiio-3993 thanks for sharing. Appreciate it and I learned something new. Thank you.

@@earthandtime5817 No problem. I was a tour guide at Meteor Crater a couple of decades ago.

@@-oiiio-3993 What a cool gig. I would love to do that sometime. I really appreciate you sharing :)

Thank you and glad you enjoyed. Welcome to the channel.

Thank you. Appreciate you watching and commenting.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much. It was a fun place to find and learn about.

I combed the literature but couldn’t find a depth or if the size of the shatter cones can tell you the size of the meteor. Thanks so much for watching and enjoying and thank you for the comment.

@@earthandtime5817 But what happened to the meteor, or, at least, the majority of it that created all these gigantic, so-called, "craters" around the globe? With all the craters we've all seen on TV, books, through telescopes, etc., in our entire lives, not a one of us can say that we've seen an impact spot that still had the actual object still in it, or, a minor or major part of it. The actual meteors that created these spots on our planet and the other one's we can see through telescopes in outer space don't have their meteors remaining in the spot they created. It's because many of these so-called craters are actually the earth's old ancient water spouts from long ago that stopped workinglong ago. No, I don't know, but a fascinating thought.

@@LanaLaughsRealLoud One wouldn't expect to find material from the impactor in an impact crater. A meteor or comet is traveling on the order of 14 miles per second when it hits the Earth. The shock wave from that doesn't just propagate into the target rock but also back up into the impactor vaporizing it. The best one might hope for is if the impactor is an iron meteor one might find scattered fragments in the region around the crater. The Canyon Diablo iron meteorite is thought to be such fragments from the impactor that created Meteor Crater in Arizona.

@@InkedGnome Thank you for answering. Enjoyed it :)

You are welcome and thank you for watching and the comment.

You are welcome!

Mike thank you so much. Appreciate you subscribing and commenting.

That is really interesting. I had no idea. I will look it up and see if there are any articles on it. Thanks so much for sharing. I appreciate it !

Thank you. Shatter cones were new to me also. I really enjoyed learning about them.

I am glad you enjoyed it. And you are welcome. Thank you for watching.

Really cool. Where is this at? and thank you for sharing.

@@earthandtime5817 I was digging out a grove of Chokecherry trees by hand in Regina Saskatchewan. I was 1 - 1.5 m deep in soil to the clay. Undisturbed. Going to check out the particles imbedded in the melt on Monday. Ranges from 1mm sand colour objects that look like a fractured arrowhead to a nano particle that created a perfect slightly oval splash in molten material and froze with the particle still in the centre. Sparkling. There’s more than one splash impact, but that one is perfect. Some things can be debatable, but no terrestrial process is capable of forming that splash structure. According to several published studies I’ve hunted down. This might get interesting soon. A naturally formed magnetite/red hematite concretion, that just happened to get hit by a meteorite and blasted to central N American prairie land.

Love the questions and I share your excitement and wonder about this place. There are still a lot of unanswered questions about this site, from what I can tell. Hopefully more research is being done to understand the size of the meteor and the timing of it. I am interested in knowing if the size of the shatter cones can tell us about the size of the meteor as well. Thanks again. I really appreciate the questions and excitement.

Thank you for watching and commenting.

Thanks so much for the comment and information. This was my first visit to an impact site. :)

I was thinking about shattered glass as well. Think this is a good analogue. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the question. I looked for breccia around the shatter cones and along the fault zone. Did see a little associated with the fault. None around the shatter cones. Appreciate the comment and you watching. And of course, the A+ !

It is such a beautiful place. I hope you make it back sometime. Thank you for the comment.

Thank you George. I love geology at 60MPH also :) My family always says.."Watch the Road, Not the Rocks".. Think I need to make that a bumper sticker! Appreciate the comment.

Thank you so much.

My reason for commit is I have only seen that cone look on hard rock from building roads were tnt is used

Just to let you know that if you see this rule out the bad before getting radiation treatments many location for nuclear bombs are testing sites another location that this can expect to find this shater cone effect.. and not were you wanting to be.

Thank you for sharing. That is really interesting. I think it is also fascinating that you see something similar in TNT blasts (referring to your next comment). I wonder if the hardness of the material dictates if you will see a shatter cone of not. Appreciate the info.

@@earthandtime5817 it's just a direction of shock pattern if it hard material as it's travels in a wave pattern and it should split to right or left to avoid the hard material and due to size of explode type and power depends on shape

I think that is a great observation. I am hoping to get back there next year and look around some more. Thank you.

I looked into some publications about calculating force from impacts. It looked very complex. Thanks for the comment.

Thank you. Was a cool area to visit. I fell in love with the Santa Fe area.

Interesting thought. I think it would become a pile of slag. Appreciate the thought and comment.

@@earthandtime5817 well, ok, take a hard look at that. Petrified forrests. Does it really take thousands of years or can it happen in a day? The Grand Canyon. Years of erosion or an electrical scar from a thunderbolt caused by certain cyclical planetary alignments. Same thing that could say, melt a large structure. Kinda like that scar on Mars. Looks very much like the Grand Canyon now, don’t it. The way they say mountains are formed seem all too perfect either. Many places are more representative of lichtenburg patterns than crushing land movement. I don’t think mountains are all created equal. Speaking of that electrical stuff I mentioned, isn’t there some weird stuff, idk, (flip my long blond hair) goin on with the sun? Are the ((smacking my bubble gum) planets kinda like big huge capacitors and magnets? Could they like, line up and stuff and maybe do that thing like when you open your car in the winter? That zap ya get? Something like that? I mean, I never went to school for this stuff so I don’t know. I go to you tube university. 😏😘⚡️

Appreciate the question. The meteor explodes on impact. We would expect to find pieces of the meteor but it would no longer be whole. For example people have found pieces of the Arizona meteor around that impact site. Here the crater has been eroded away so no evidence of the meteor would be left. Thanks for the comment.

@@earthandtime5817 No, thankQ for explaining. 😀

I think it's plasma beams and extreme heat hit these areas, to remove past civilization and their technology...... No nuclear blast. No meteor blast either.......two events would have annihilated the entire earth for ever....

@@earthandtime5817 If you are referring to the Barringer Meteor Crater, many tons of Canyon Diablo meteorite have been recovered from the site. I often picked up oxides myself when I was a tour guide there decades ago. A rather large chunk adorns the museum at Meteor Crater along with several smaller examples, large specimens can be found at the Smithsonian Institution, Chicago's Field Museum, Northern Arizona University, others have been sold on the open market since at least the 1890s when tourists bought them at the Volz Trading Post for $1 per pound. In later years Harvey Nininger sold unknown tonnage of meteorite through his trading post / rock shop on Route 66. The majority of the meteorite which caused the 4100 foot wide, 560 foot deep crater (approx. present measurements), however, likely vaporized on impact and rained over the area as tiny 'spherules' of iron / nickel meteorite which can still be found in the sands for a six mile radius about the crater. Shattercones are also found in sandstone at Barringer Meteor Crater though tektites are notably absent.

@@-oiiio-3993 Thank you. I was referring to the Barringer crater. I really appreciate you sharing all of this information with the viewers and me. I am always learning :)

Interesting. I was wondering if some good specimens could be found by searching along the veins. However I ran out of time. Th sls for the comment.

That is a great question. I took some samples but have not cut them for thin sections yet. I hope to do that soon. Thanks for the suggestion and comment :)

Thank you for watching and commenting.

No, millions. Geology, not theology.

Interesting. Is your town in the area?

@@earthandtime5817 No Slovenia.

@@Lateralusaint. Fascinating. Thank you for sharing. What is the name of the lake?

@@earthandtime5817 its called wild lake and its in Slovenia litlle town caled idrija.

@@Lateralusaint. Thank you and apologies for the late reply. I will look it up.

Adults deal in facts and reality, not fantasy.

It has a texture similar to petrified wood, so I can see why you would suggest that. However, the rocks are definitely granitic, making it impossible to be petrified wood. I appreciate the comment.

I like this simplification. It gets right to the point. Thank you for sharing.

There are no remnants. The crater was eroded. Thank you for the question and for watching.

Great eye. I didn’t notice any. There definitely could be some in the area and I could have missed them. Appreciate the question.

I did see that there appears to be lettering of sorts.. Old faded graffiti ? Petroglyphs would be much cooler.

@@bailey1000100 Next time I am in that area I will take a closer look. I am thinking faded graffiti. Thanks for the comment.

I will look it up. I am not familiar with him. Thank you.

Great question. It is at least 350 million years ago based on the rock package that were affected. The impact could have been older. Check out the publications in the description for this video to learn more. Thank you for the question.

Great question. I imagine a meteor impact could create enough force to activate a fault. The fault plan I saw here cut through the shatter cones suggesting it came after. However the stress put on a fault from a meteor could cause it to slip at some point after the impact. Really enjoyed this question and thinking through it. Thank you.

@@earthandtime5817 do you realize what these cone shapes are and are what their revealing to scientists? Do the scientists notice?

@@earthandtime5817 it's not a guess. Its logical. Think about it. Oh and their not paying closer attention to the shock cone formation. Its telling the scientists something. Tell them to put their beanies on and think about them. The shock comes are in a pattern, I bet. The cones are shown gravitational force as meteor compresses the electrical current.

@@rh1960 It tells them about the impacting force that caused the 'shattercone' formations.

Thank you. That is a great add and I appreciate the feedback. I will remember that for other videos.

Interesting. Are you suggesting Air is water?

Great question. A dike is an intrusion that cuts across and through preexisting rock layers or bodies and generally forms a tabular shape. Most often they are igneous (related to volcanism). However I have seen mud dikes as well in ocean deposits. A vein is a fracture that has been filled with a mineral. The minerals often precipitate out of water that is traveling through the fractures. I hope this helps. Thanks again for the question.

@@earthandtime5817 Excellent answer.

@@-oiiio-3993 Thank you :)

I like that explanation. 😊thanks for the comment.

I am not sure I follow. There is plenty of evidence of meteor impacts. The other way to get these is through a nuclear blast and we can confidently rule that out.

@@earthandtime5817 You don't need to follow me. All I'm saying is: space is not proven nor is gravity, & I'm not debating or saying things do not impact the terra. Lest we forget, heliocentricism is also just a theory. Skål 🐾

@@theScrupulousBerserker thanks for sharing your thoughts. I do think gravity is well established mathematically and space can be an interesting philosophical question. I will check out your stuff. Thanks.

thank you for commenting.

Thank you for the comment. I am not familiar with Andy Hall. Can you point me to his info? I am always up for learning more.

Interesting idea. I think the conical shape would face the other direction though if a geyser. That is based on my work on mapping geothermal fields.

Thanks for the comment. All of the sciences are intertwined. Geology is an amalgamation of biology, chemistry, and physics. One of the reasons I love being a geologist.

Thank you for the comment. I am not sure I follow. Can you elaborate on DNA samples tests?

no, because that would be just silly.

Is this a joke or have you been watching RU-vid 'gurus'?

Good question. I think it is eroding. There is a lot of it and granite is pretty resistive already and with how thick it is, some of the shatter cones have been preserved.

I'm not an expert in any way, no knowledge at all of any of this. But what came to mind from your question is the glass that's formed by lightening strikes in sand. Maybe in some way its actually stronger than surrounding rock.

@@merrymata2547 I like the idea. The shatter cones could strengthen the rock. Interesting. Appreciate you sharing.

Thank you so much for sharing. I have not looked into those impacts before. Really appreciate the reference.

@@earthandtime5817 I forgot to also mention this reference en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_impact_crater#:~:text=The%20Chesapeake%20Bay%20impact%20crater,impact%20craters%20in%20the%20world. It may have more detail about the identification of fracture cone formations and how quartz will sometimes show fracture planes see: impactcraters.us/crater_identification/chapter_5 This is new information to me as well. I stumbled onto this last week myself. I was somewhat dismayed to learn my knowledge database of important geologic events is roughly 40 years out of date. I ask myself, "how could I not remember this"? Well, because 40 years ago it was not "common knowledge". This "information gap" is happening more often the older I get. I don't realize this gap exists most of the time though, but when I do I realize I am a part of history now, my relevance is rooted in my past and I have less and less to contribute to the perpetuation of knowledge into the world around me. I am becoming a relic inside my own mind.

@@stevecummins7834 Thank you again for sharing!

Not sure I follow. Thank you for watching though.