Meteor Craters and the Flood Year

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Meteor craters and the Flood year

I think that the young-earthers should consider what their theory means in relation to meteor impacts. Consider what one 300 m rock would mean: "A huge meteor with the destructive power of 3,000 hydrogen bombs will skim past the Earth today in a cosmic encounter that has alarmed astronomers. "Codenamed 1996 JA1, the 300 metre-wide chunk of rock was discovered only last Tuesday, suggesting that humanity may have just a few days' warning of disaster if a meteor turns out to be on a collision course."Robert Matthews, "Meteor pass will be a squeaker," Calgary Herald, Sunday, May 19, 1996, p. 1 Now, consider that we geoscientists have found lots of meteor craters in the fossil record. Many of them are much, much bigger than the crater which would be formed by that 300-m diameter chunk of rock mentioned above. Below is a list of the meteor craters we have found in the fossil record. They are not all the same geologic age and this means that they would have come in at slightly different periods during the flood. But the amazing thing is that most YECs who believe in a one-year global flood don't know that their belief system requires accepting that the earth was literally bombarded with millions of megatons of meteoric impacts during the period of time that the geologic column was laid down. The old earther doesn't have a problem with this because he believes that the craters were deposited over 545 million years. But the YEC believes that all these craters were the remnants of impacts which occurred in only 1 year. Think what the ride Noah and company had with such large meteors raining down on their head!!! Here is the list of meteor craters found in the geologic column. this is only a partial list--more comments below: Terrestrial Impact Crater List Acraman, Australia Location: 32�1'S, 135�27'E Diameter: 160.000 km Age: 570.00 million years Ames Location: 36�15'N, 98�10'W Diameter: 16.000 km Age: 470.00 +- 30.00 million years Amguid Location: 26�5'N, 4�23'E Diameter: 0.450 km Age: 100,000 years Aouelloul, Mauritania Location: 20�15'N, 12�41'W Diameter: 0.390 km Age: 3.10 +- 0.30 million years Araguainha Dome Location: 16�46'S, 52�59'W Diameter: 40.000 km Age: 249.00 +- 19.00 million years Avak Location: 71�15'N, 156�38'W Diameter: 12.000 km Age: 100.00 +- 5.00 million years Azuara, Spain Location: 41�10'N, 0�55'W Diameter: 30.000 km Age: 130.00 million years B.P. Structure Location: 25�19'N, 24�20'E Diameter: 2.800 km Age: 120.00 million years Barringer, Arizona Location: 35�2'N, 111�1'W Diameter: 1.186 km Age: 49,000 years Beaverhead Location: 44�36'N, 113�0'W Diameter: 60.000 km Age: 600.00 million years Bee Bluff Location: 29�2'N, 99�51'W Diameter: 2.400 km Age: 40.00 million years Beyenchime-Salaatin Location: 71�50'N, 123�30'E Diameter: 8.000 km Age: 65.00 million years Bigach Location: 48�30'N, 82�0'E Diameter: 7.000 km Age: 6.00 +- 3.00 million years Boltysh, Ukraine Location: 48�45'N, 32�10'E Diameter: 25.000 km Age: 88.00 +- 3.00 million years Bosumtwi, Ghana Location: 6�32'N, 1�25'W Diameter: 10.500 km Age: 1.30 +- 0.2 million years Boxhole, North Territory, Australia Location: 22�37'S, 135�12'E Diameter: 0.170 km Age: 30,000 years Brent, Ontario, Canada Location: 46�5'N, 78�29'W Diameter: 3.800 km Age: 450.00 +- 30.00 million years Campo Del Cielo, Argentina Location: 27�38'S, 61�42'W Diameter: 0.050 km Age: 0 years Carswell, Saskatchewan, Canada Location: 58�27'N, 109�30'W Diameter: 39.000 km Age: 115.00 +- 10.00 million years Charlevoix, Canada Location: 47�32'N, 70�18'W Diameter: 54.000 km Age: 357.00 +- 15.00 million years Chicxulub, Mexico Location: 21�20'N, 89�30'W Diameter: 300.000 km Age: 64.98 +- 0.05 million years Chiyli Location: 49�10'N, 57�51'E Diameter: 5.500 km Age: 46.00 +- 7.00 million years Clearwater Lake East, Quebec, Canada Location: 56�5'N, 74�7'W Diameter: 22.000 km Age: 290.00 +- 20.00 million years Clearwater Lake West, Quebec, Canada Location: 56�13'N, 74�30'W Diameter: 32.000 km Age: 290.00 +- 20.00 million years Connolly Basin, Australia Location: 23�32'S, 124�45'E Diameter: 9.000 km Age: 60.00 million years Crooked Creek, Missouri Location: 37�50'N, 91�23'W Diameter: 7.000 km Age: 320.00 +- 80.00 million years Dalgaranga, West Australia Location: 27�45'S, 117�5'E Diameter: 0.021 km Age: 30,000 years Decaturville, Missouri Location: 37�54'N, 92�43'W Diameter: 6.000 km Age: 300.00 million years Deep Bay, Saskatchewan, Canada Location: 56�24'N, 102�59'W Diameter: 13.000 km Age: 100.00 +- 50.00 million years Dellen, Sweden Location: 61�55'N, 16�39'E Diameter: 15.000 km Age: 110.00 +- 2.70 million years Des Plaines, Illinois Location: 42�3'N, 87�52'W Diameter: 8.000 km Age: 280.00 million years Dobele Location: 56�35'N, 23�15'E Diameter: 4.500 km Age: 300.00 +- 35.00 million years Eagle Butte Location: 49�42'N, 110�35'W Diameter: 19.000 km Age: 65.00 million years El'Gygytgyn, Russia Location: 67�30'N, 172�5'E Diameter: 18.000 km Age: 3.50 +- 0.50 million years Flynn Creek, Tennessee Location: 36�17'N, 85�40'W Diameter: 3.550 km Age: 360.00 +- 20.00 million years Garnos Location: 60�39'N, 9�0'E Diameter: 5.000 km Age: 500.00 +- 10.00 million years Glasford, Illinois Location: 40�36'N, 89�47'W Diameter: 4.000 km Age: 430.00 million years Glover Bluff Location: 43�58'N, 89�32'W Diameter: 3.000 km Age: 500.00 million years Goat Paddock Location: 18�20'S, 126�40'E Diameter: 5.100 km Age: 50.00 million years Gosses Bluff, North Territory, Australia Location: 23�50'S, 132�19'E Diameter: 22.000 km Age: 142.50 +- 0.50 million years Gow Lake, Canada Location: 56�27'N, 104�29'W Diameter: 4.000 km Age: 250.00 million years Gusev Location: 48�21'N, 40�14'E Diameter: 3.500 km Age: 65.00 million years Haughton, Canada Location: 75�22'N, 89�41'W Diameter: 20.5 km Age: 21.5 +- 1.00 million years Haviland Location: 37�35'N, 99�10'W Diameter: 0.015 km Age: 0 years Henbury, North Territory, Australia Location: 24�35'S, 133�9'E Diameter: 0.157 km Age: 10,000 years Holleford, Ontario, Canada Location: 44�28'N, 76�38'W Diameter: 2.350 km Age: 550.00 +- 100.00 million years Ile Rouleau Location: 50�41'N, 73�53'W Diameter: 4.000 km Age: 300.00 million years Ilumetsa Location: 57�58'N, 25�25'E Diameter: 0.080 km Age: 0 years Ilyinets Location: 49�6'N, 29�12'E Diameter: 4.500 km Age: 395.00 +- 5.00 million years Janisjarvi, Russia Location: 61�58'N, 30�55'E Diameter: 14.000 km Age: 698.00 +- 22.00 million years Kaalijarvi Location: 58�24'N, 22�40'E Diameter: 0.110 km Age: 0 +- 0 years Kaluga, Russia Location: 54�30'N, 36�15'E Diameter: 15.000 km Age: 380.00 +- 10.00 million years Kamensk Location: 48�20'N, 40�15'E Diameter: 25.000 km Age: 65.00 +- 2.00 million years Kara, Russia Location: 69�5'N, 64�18'E Diameter: 65.000 km Age: 73.00 +- 3.00 million years Kara-Kul, USSR Location: 39�1'N, 73�27'E Diameter: 52.000 km Age: 25.00 million years Kardla Location: 58�59'N, 22�40'E Diameter: 4.000 km Age: 455.00 million years Karla Location: 54�54'N, 48�0'E Diameter: 12.000 km Age: 10.00 million years Kelly West Location: 19�56'S, 133�57'E Diameter: 10.000 km Age: 550.00 million years Kentland, Indiana Location: 40�45'N, 87�24'W Diameter: 13.000 km Age: 300.00 million years Kursk Location: 51�40'N, 36�0'E Diameter: 5.500 km Age: 250.00 +- 80.00 million years Lac Couture, Quebec, Canada Location: 60�8'N, 75�20'W Diameter: 8.000 km Age: 430.00 +- 25.00 million years Lac La Moinerie, Canada Location: 57�26'N, 66�37'W Diameter: 8.000 km Age: 400.00 +- 50.00 million years Lappajarvi, Finland Location: 63�9'N, 23�42'E Diameter: 17.000 km Age: 77.30 +- 0.40 million years Lawn Hill Location: 18�40'S, 138�39'E Diameter: 18.000 km Age: 515.00 million years Liverpool Location: 12�24'S, 134�3'E Diameter: 1.600 km Age: 150.00 +- 70.00 million years Lockne Location: 63�0'N, 14�48'E Diameter: 7.000 km Age: 540.00 +- 10.00 million years Logancha, Russia Location: 65�30'N, 95�48'E Diameter: 20.000 km Age: 25.00 +- 20.00 million years Logoisk Location: 54�12'N, 27�48'E Diameter: 17.000 km Age: 40.00 +- 5.00 million years Lonar, India Location: 19�59'N, 76�31'E Diameter: 1.830 km Age: 52,000 +- 10,000 years Macha Location: 59�59'N, 118�0'E Diameter: 0.300 km Age: 10,000 years Manicouagan, Quebec, Canada Location: 51�23'N, 68�42'W Diameter: 100.000 km Age: 212.00 +- 1.00 million years Manson, Iowa Location: 42�35'N, 94�31'W Diameter: 35.000 km Age: 65.70 +- 1.00 million years Marquez Location: 31�17'N, 96�18'W Diameter: 22.000 km Age: 58.00 +- 2.00 million years Middlesboro, Kentucky Location: 36�37'N, 83�44'W Diameter: 6.000 km Age: 300.00 million years Mien, Sweden Location: 56�25'N, 14�52'E Diameter: 9.000 km Age: 121.00 +- 2.30 million years Misarai Location: 54�0'N, 23�54'E Diameter: 5.000 km Age: 395.00 +- 145.00 million years Mishina Gora Location: 58�40'N, 28�0'E Diameter: 4.000 km Age: 360.00 million years Mistastin, Labrador, Canada Location: 55�53'N, 63�18'W Diameter: 28.000 km Age: 38.00 +- 4.00 million years Montagnais Location: 42�53'N, 64�13'W Diameter: 45.000 km Age: 50.50 +- 0.76 million years Monturaqui, Chile Location: 23�56'S, 68�17'W Diameter: 0.460 km Age: 1.00 million years Morasko Location: 52�29'N, 16�54'E Diameter: 0.100 km Age: 10,000 years New Quebec, Quebec, Canada Location: 61�17'N, 73�40'W Diameter: 3.440 km Age: 1.40 +- 0.10 million years Nicholson Lake, Canada Location: 62�40'N, 102�41'W Diameter: 12.500 km Age: 400.00 million years Oasis Location: 24�35'N, 24�24'E Diameter: 11.500 km Age: 120.00 million years Obolon Location: 49�30'N, 32�55'E Diameter: 15.000 km Age: 215.00 +- 25.00 million years Odessa, Texas Location: 31�45'N, 102�29'W Diameter: 0.168 km Age: 50,000 years Ouarkziz, Algeria Location: 29�0'N, 7�33'W Diameter: 3.500 km Age: 70.00 million years Piccaninny Location: 17�32'S, 128�25'E Diameter: 7.000 km Age: 360.00 million years Pilot Lake, Canada Location: 60�17'N, 111�1'W Diameter: 5.80 km Age: 445.00 +- 2.00 million years Popigai Location: 71�30'N, 111�0'E Diameter: 100.000 km Age: 35.00 +- 5.00 million years Presqu'Ile Location: 49�43'N, 78�48'W Diameter: 12.000 km Age: 500.00 million years Pretoria Salt Pan, South Africa Location: 25�24'S, 28�5'E Diameter: 1.130 km Age: 200,000 years Puchezh-Katunki Location: 57�6'N, 43�35'E Diameter: 80.000 km Age: 220.00 +- 10.00 million years Ragozinka, Russia Location: 58�18'N, 62�0'E Diameter: 9.000 km Age: 55.00 +- 5.00 million years Red Wing Location: 47�36'N, 103�33'W Diameter: 9.000 km Age: 200.00 +- 25.00 million years Riachao Ring Location: 7�43'S, 46�39'W Diameter: 4.500 km Age: 200.00 million years Ries, Germany Location: 48�53'N, 10�37'E Diameter: 24.000 km Age: 14.8 +- 1.00 million years Rio Cuarto Location: 30�52'S, 64�14'W Diameter: 4.500 km Age: 100,000 years Rochechouart, France Location: 45�50'N, 0�56'E Diameter: 23.000 km Age: 186.00 +- 8.00 million years Roter Kamm, Namibia Location: 27�46'S, 16�18'E Diameter: 2.500 km Age: 5.0 +- 0.30 million years Rotmistrovka Location: 49�0'N, 32�0'E Diameter: 2.700 km Age: 140.00 +- 20.00 million years Saaksjarvi, Finland Location: 61�24'N, 22�24'E Diameter: 5.000 km Age: 514.00 +- 12.00 million years Saint Martin, Canada Location: 51�47'N, 98�32'W Diameter: 40.000 km Age: 220.0 +- 32.00 million years Serpent Mound, Ohio Location: 39�2'N, 83�24'W Diameter: 6.40 km Age: 320.00 million years Serra Da Cangalha Location: 8�5'S, 46�52'W Diameter: 12.000 km Age: 300.00 million years Shunak, Kazakhstan Location: 47�12'N, 72�42'E Diameter: 3.100 km Age: 12.00 +- 5.00 million years Sierra Madera, Texas Location: 30�36'N, 102�55'W Diameter: 13.000 km Age: 100.00 million years Sikhote Alin, USSR Location: 46�7'N, 134�40'E Diameter: 0.027 km Age: 0 years Siljan, Sweden Location: 61�2'N, 14�52'E Diameter: 55.000 km Age: 368.00 +- 1.10 million years Slate Islands Location: 48�40'N, 87�0'W Diameter: 30.000 km Age: 350.00 million years Sobolev Location: 46�18'N, 138�52'E Diameter: 0.053 km Age: 0 years Soderfjarden, Finland Location: 63�0'N, 21�35'E Diameter: 6.000 km Age: 550.00 million years Spider, Australia Location: 16�44'S, 126�5'E Diameter: 13.000 km Age: 570.00 million years Steen River, Canada Location: 59�31'N, 117�37'W Diameter: 25.000 km Age: 95.00 +- 7.00 million years Steinheim, Germany Location: 48�40'N, 10�4'E Diameter: 3.800 km Age: 14.80 +- 0.70 million years Strangways Location: 15�12'S, 133�35'E Diameter: 25.000 km Age: 470.00 million years Sudbury, Ontario, Canada Location: 46�36'N, 81�11'W Diameter: 200.000 km Age: 1850.00 +- 3.00 million years Tabun-Khara-Obo Location: 44�6'N, 109�36'E Diameter: 1.300 km Age: 3.00 million years Talemzane, Algeria Location: 33�19'N, 4�2'E Diameter: 1.750 km Age: 3.00 million years Teague, Australia Location: 25�52'S, 120�53'E Diameter: 30.000 km Age: 1685.00 +- 5.00 million years Tenoumer, Mauritania Location: 22�55'N, 10�24'W Diameter: 1.900 km Age: 2.50 +- 0.50 million years Ternovka Location: 48�1'N, 33�5'E Diameter: 12.000 km Age: 280.00 +- 10.00 million years Tin Bider Location: 27�36'N, 5�7'E Diameter: 6.000 km Age: 70.00 million years Tookoonooka Location: 27�0'S, 143�0'E Diameter: 55.000 km Age: 128.00 +- 5.00 million years Tvaren Location: 58�46'N, 17�25'E Diameter: 2.000 km Age: 0 years Upheaval Dome, Utah Location: 38�26'N, 109�54'W Diameter: 5.000 km Age: 65.00 million years Ust-Kara Location: 69�18'N, 65�18'E Diameter: 25.000 km Age: 73.00 +- 3.00 million years Vargeao Dome Location: 26�50'S, 52�7'W Diameter: 12.000 km Age: 70.00 million years Veevers Location: 22�58'S, 125�22'E Diameter: 0.080 km Age: 1.00 million years Vepriaj Location: 55�6'N, 24�36'E Diameter: 8.000 km Age: 160.00 +- 30.00 million years Vredefort, South Africa Location: 27�0'S, 27�30'E Diameter: 140.000 km see below Age: 1970.00 +- 100.00 million years Wabar, Arabia Location: 21�30'N, 50�28'E Diameter: 0.097 km Age: 10,000 +- 0 years Wanapitei Lake, Canada Location: 46�45'N, 80�45'W Diameter: 7.500 km Age: 37.00 +- 2.00 million years Wells Creek, Tennessee Location: 36�23'N, 87�40'W Diameter: 14.000 km Age: 200.00 +- 100.00 million years West Hawk Lake, Canada Location: 49�46'N, 95�11'W Diameter: 3.150 km Age: 100.00 +- 50.00 million years Wolfe Creek, West Australia Location: 19�18'S, 127�46'E Diameter: 0.875 km Age: 300,000 years Zapadnaya Location: 49�44'N, 29�0'E Diameter: 4.000 km Age: 115.00 +- 10.00 million years Zeleny Gai Location: 48�42'N, 32�54'E Diameter: 2.500 km Age: 120.00 +- 20.00 million years Zhamanshin, Kazakhstan Location: 48�24'N, 60�58'E Diameter: 13.500 km Age: 900,000 +- 100,000 years References Pilkington, M. and R. A. F. Grieve, "The Geophysical Signature of Terrestrial Impact Craters." Reviews of Geophysics, May 1992, vol. 30, pp. 161-181. http://www.meteorite.ch/crater.htm Chesapeake Bay Location 37o 16.5�N 76o 7� W Diameter 90 km (6400 km square crater area) 1.3 km deep Age 35.3-35.5 myr C. Wylie Poag, �The Chesapeake Bay Bolide Impact: A Convulsive Event in Atlantic Coastal Plain Evolution,� Sedimentary Geology 180(1997):45-90 �In so far as the age of the Woodleigh impact is constrained between the Early Permian and Early Jurassic, given the likely environmental consequences of an impact of this magnitude, it is possible that this event correlates with one of the two major extinctions during this time span, i.e., the end-Triassic (214 Ma) extinctions or the Permian-Triassic boundary (247 Ma) extinction.� Arthur J. Mory et al, �Woodleigh, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia: a New 120 Km Diameter Impact Structure,� Earth and Planetary Science Letters 177(2000):119-128, p. 127 �A 2.020 +/- 0.003 GA meteorite impact pierced the ~10-km-thick sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the 3.07 to 2.5 Ga Witwatersrand Basin forming a 300-km diameter impact crater. Isostatic recovery in the center of the Vredefort impact structure overturned and exposed the lower basin strata and underlying crystalline basement, the latter to paleodepths of at least 20 km. Recent discovery of 3.5 to 3.3 Ga mantle rocks at the center of the basement uplift further supports the interpretation that the 37-km-thick crust has been turned on edge.� D. E. Moser, R. M. Flowers and R. J. Hart, �Birth of the Kaapvaal Tectosphere 3.08 Billion Years Ago,� Science 291(2001):465-468, p. 466 The Vredefort has shock metamorphism �We determined the primary ages of shock-metamorphosed zircon grains from two sites using techniques described elsewhere.� D. E. Moser, R. M. Flowers and R. J. Hart, �Birth of the Kaapvaal Tectosphere 3.08 Billion Years Ago,� Science 291(2001):465-468, p. 466-467 Here is an explanation of the effects of large meteor impacts. "Computer models of explosions with energies of 1,000 megatons--about 20 times the energy of the largest nuclear bombs but only 1/100,000 the energy of the KT impact--have shown that the fireball never reaches pressure equilibrium with the surrounding atmosphere. Instead, as the fireball expands to altitudes where the density of the atmosphere declines significantly, its rise accelerates and the gas leaves the atmosphere at velocities fast enough to escape the earth's gravitational field. The fireball from an even greater asteroid impact would simply burst out the top of the atmosphere, carrying any entrained ejecta with it, sending the material into orbits that could carry it anywhere on the earth." "The impact of a comet-size body on the earth, creating a crater 150 kilometers in diameter, would clearly kill everything within sight of the fireball." Walter Alvarez and Frank Asaro, "An Extraterrestrial Impact," Scientific American, Oct. 1990, p. 80-82 [Note to the reader. The fellow named Socrates, remored to be a well known YEC leader was, at this time, denigrating the fact that I only have a bachelors of physics, claiming that only people like, him, who have Ph.D.s were capable of discussing such facts. Thus, I sarcastically added this  to my posting. For an exampls search on Socrates athttp://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11221&perpage=16&highlight=Socrates%20AND%20Ph.D%20AND%20Morton&pagenumber=1 Of course, I apologize to everyone for only having a Bachelors in Physics. I am so ashamed of this, I can hardly speak. But please forgive my lack of having a Ph. D. Thus, having apologized for my B. S. degree, respondents don't need to mention my qualifications when they present their coherent explanations of how Noah survived such a rain of fire from the sky. Ok, it is the turn for the Young-earthers to explain the data. How did Noah survive megatons of impacts occurring in a one year period?????