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...science cannot let well enough alone. In the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Geologist Dorsey Hager attempts to prove that Meteor Crater is nothing but an ancient sinkhole that just happened to get peppered, late in its life, by a swarm of meteorites. According to Hager, Meteor Crater started as a steep-sided dome thrust upward several million years ago by geological forces. Its rock was splintered by distortion, and water penetrated to "evaporite" (salt) beds far below it. After millions of years, the water removed a lot of this soluble stuff, leaving enormous caverns. At last...
...this happened, according to Hager, about 200,000 years ago. Much later, a great swarm of meteorites littered the pit and its vicinity with nickel-iron fragments...
...this extraordinary coincidence, says Hager, that made the meteorite theory seem so plausible...
...Hager, no conscious spoilsport, bases his argument on elaborate geological studies of the crater's surroundings. Except for the presence of meteoritic material, he says, there is little or no evidence to prove that the mound or the depression in its center is of meteoric origin. One of his strongest points is that the sides of the mound are made largely of white sand arranged in regular beds. This seems to point to the slow action of normal erosion, not to the sudden impact of a meteorite hitting the earth. Another strong point is that no large mass...
Previous experience is not necessary, Callahan emphasized. President tom Calhoun 2B and Peter Hager 2B, treasurer, will help coach the team for the trip...