Geologic Analysis of Large Impact Basins, Oil and gas exploration
Impact Crater Study Group: A Geoscience Research Collective
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Exploring the Depths: A Photo Gallery of Impact Crater Structures in North America
Interference patterns of the Eocene Wanapitei Lake simple impact structure overprinting the Precambrian Sudbury multi-ringed impact structure's veins. The quartz veins from the Sudbury event are offset by the dry, unfilled open fractures from the Wanapitei structure. Location is the Skead Bay, along the south shore of Wanapitei Lake. PS: if you find this rockhammer, lemme know, argh....
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GEOLOGIC FIELD EXPEDITIONS
Recumbent folds filling in the transient crater at Upheaval Dome and Bee Bluff.
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RESOURCE EXPLORATION
Marquez Dome crater, north crater moat just inside the rim. Gravity slides in to the transient crater.
Global Tectonics
Arcuate mountain ranges in our terrestrial universe. Can you guess where each scene is from?
Thin Section Petrography
Upheaval Dome crater moat purple sandstone breccia, 100x magnification.
Current Research Topics
Upper Miocene, 5.7 Ma, local extinction event. Partially petrified (silicified) and partially coalified tree stump from the Kilcher beach, new Homer, Alaska. Dozens to hundreds of in-place tree stumps during Upper Beluga time, approximately 5.7 Ma, suggest a catastrophic event that drowned the trees with saltwater incursion, similar to the drownings that occurred during Alaska’s catastrophic 1964 earthquake, which registered a magnitude of 9.2 on the Richter scale.
What We Do
Geologic Analysis of Impact Craters
Field Geology, SURVEYS, and Laboratory Analysis of Rocks
Field Geology, SURVEYS, and Laboratory Analysis of Rocks
“Impact Crater Studies” interrogates the hidden potential energy transferred to the Earth during meteor, asteroid, and comet impacts. A vast amount of kinetic energy is instantaneously transformed into potential energy at these impact sites. Most of this energy is expended quickly, cooling, deforming rocks. Most of it. The rest of it is a secret, worthy of pursuit: oil and gas, gold, rare earth elements, metals.
Field Geology, SURVEYS, and Laboratory Analysis of Rocks
Field Geology, SURVEYS, and Laboratory Analysis of Rocks
Field Geology, SURVEYS, and Laboratory Analysis of Rocks
For known and suspected impact craters, we conduct: 1) geophysical surveys, 2) geologic field studies, and 3) laboratory analyses including thin section petrography, CT-Scans, x-ray diffractometry, magnetic susceptibility, specific gravity, geochemistry, vitrinite reflectance, and age dating such as potassium-argon, apatite fission track, paleontology and palynology, carbon-14, and other methods. Data collections precede hypotheses construction.
Industry to University Collaborations
Field Geology, SURVEYS, and Laboratory Analysis of Rocks
Industry to University Collaborations
To develop cross-functional relationships between different arms of the geosciences, from academia, government, and industry--interactions that promote dreaming, and scientific discovery. Too often industry ridicules academia, academia ridicules industry, everyone ridicules government, too little scientific promotion. We are driven by curiosity, hope to provide scholarships, to students studying large Earth impact basins. We attempt to bridge the learnings from academia, government, and industry as it pertains to large impact events.