28 October 2009

Shiva Crater


Did a very large comet or asteroid strike (600 by 400 kilometers across, likely made by a body 40 kilometers across) the Indian coastline and kill the dinosaurs?


Shiva: Another K-T Impact?


Diagram of Shiva impact area. Credit: Sankar Chatterjee.
by Leslie Mullen for Astrobiology Magazine
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/deepimpact-04r.html


Shoemaker-Levy 9 revisited: or The Geology of the K/T Impact Craters on Earth or Wiping out the Dinosaur with Five Simultaneous Impacts…or
Thomas J. Teters
http://starmon.com/KT_craters.html


http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=3IORF1Ei3LIC&oi=fnd&pg=PA31&dq=Chatterjee+and+Rudra+1996+Shiva&ots=ngYDm9C0s_&sig=pv_rRhdm0ZaWQ32GCjDhgN4SnuA#v=onepage&q=&f=false


THE SHIVA CRATER: IMPLICATIONS FOR DECCAN VOLCANISM, INDIA-SEYCHELLES RIFTING, DINOSAUR EXTINCTION, AND PETROLEUM ENTRAPMENT AT THE KT BOUNDARY
CHATTERJEE, Sankar1, GUVEN, Necip2, YOSHINOBU, Aaaron2, and DONOFRIO, Richard3, (1) Geosciences, Texas Tech Univ, MS Box 41053, Lubbock, TX 79409-3191, sankar.chatterjee@ttu.edu, (2) Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, TX 79409-1053, (3) Exploration and Development Geosciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73069

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2003AM/finalprogram/abstract_58126.htm


THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CONTEMPORANEOUS SHIVA IMPACT STRUCTURE AND DECCAN VOLCANISM AT THE KT BOUNDARY
CHATTERJEE, Sankar, Geosciences, Texas Tech Univ, MS Box 41053, Lubbock, TX 79409-3191, sankar.chatterjee@ttu.edu and MEHROTRA, Naresh M., Paleobotany, Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleobotany, 53 University Road, Lucknow, 226007, India
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/finalprogram/abstract_160197.htm


Shiva: Another K-T impact?
by Leslie Mullen  
http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/1281/shiva-another-k-t-impact