[Rockhounds] 60-Million-Year-Old Meteorite Impact Ejecta Discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye

[Paul]

Alien Minerals Discovered at Ancient Meteorite Strike Site
in Scotland by Katherine Hignett, Newsweek, Dec. 15, 2017
http://www.newsweek.com/skye-meteorites-alien-mineral-749103

60-Million-Year-Old Meteorite Impact Zone Discovered
on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, Sci News, December 15, 2017
http://www.sci-news.com/geology/meteorite-impact-scotlands-isle-of-skye-05539.html

“A team of geologists has found 60 million-year-old ejecta
from a previously unknown meteorite impact on the Isle
of Skye, northwest Scotland. This is the first recorded
mid-Paleocene impact event in the region and is coincident
with the onset of magmatism in the British Paleogene
Igneous Province.”

The open-access paper is:

Drake, S.M., A.D. Beard, A.P. Jones, D.J. Brown, A.D. Fortes,
I.L. Millar, A. Carter, J. Baca, and H. Downes, 2017,
Discovery of a meteoritic ejecta layer containing unmelted
impactor fragments at the base of Paleocene lavas, Isle of
Skye, Scotland. Geology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G39452.1
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/525169/discovery-of-a-meteoritic-ejecta-layer-containing


  Yours,


Paul H.