Claim CD110:
Meteor craters are never found in deeper strata, as they should be if the
strata were deposited over many millions of years.
Source:
Wysong, R. L., 1976. The Creation-Evolution Controversy. Midland, MI:
Inquiry Press, p. 171.
Response:
- At least 130 fossil craters have been found, ranging from the
Precambrian to the Recent. (Grieve 1997).
- In addition to craters, we also find other evidence of meteor impacts,
including shocked quartz, glass microspherules, and fullerenes with
extraterrestrial gases (Becker et al. 2000), and meteorites.
Links:
Earth Impact Database, 2003.
http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/
Greene, Todd S., 2000, 2002. Impact craters on Earth.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/7755/ancientproof/impactcraters.html
Matson, Dave E., 1994. How good are those young-earth arguments?
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind/howgood-yea.html#proof4
References:
- Becker, Luann, Robert J. Poreda and Ted E. Bunch, 2000. Fullerenes: An
extraterrestrial carbon carrier phase for noble gases. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Science USA 97:
2979-2983.
- Grieve, R. A. F., 1997. Extraterrestrial impact events: the record in
the rocks and the stratigraphic column. Palaeogeography,
Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology 132: 5-23.
Further Reading:
Becker, Luann, 2002. Repeated blows. Scientific American 286(3)
(Mar.):
76-83.
Montanari, A., and C. Koeberl, 2000. Impact Stratigraphy: The Italian
Record. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag. (technical)
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