[meteorite-list] Re: (Ron Baalke) Fossil find...

From: N Lehrman <nlehrman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:17 2004
Message-ID: <010c01c30f84$9b9d8fc0$cc04fea9_at_homeportal.2wire.net>

Marcia, Steve Schoner, and all,

I found your note refreshing for at least two reasons: 1) you, Marcie, were
gracious enough to accept a reasonable answer when you heard it, and 2)
Steve S., we would hate to lose you, but you should be in politics. This
must be the first time anyone graciously accepted a "No" in the matter of
hopeful meteorites!

Congrats to both, may there be many more of you!

Norm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcia Swanson" <MJSOfArc_at_webtv.net>
To: <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 6:31 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: (Ron Baalke) Fossil find...


> Hi List,
> I found this article very interesting and circumstances for me, were
> also reminiscent of what I ran into when I sent the specimen to Steve
> Schoner to identify, as a meteorite, and it turned out to be an "erattic
> ". Local legend had it, that this was a Meteorite that was found in our
> County in the early 1900's. I did tons and tons of research and even
> though it was magnetic, contained nickel and iron, seemed to have a
> crust, and needle, prismlike crystals,plus other metals, which I knew
> were not indigenous to this area, (could see better after tumbling)
> which I had no way of identifying. Wanting to get it authenticated as a
> meteorite , which is what I truly believed it to be. Steve was nice
> enough to get right back to me after I sent in specimen, and explained
> that due to it's size, ect, it was a Glacial Boulder that had been
> deposited here from hundreds of miles away, from the North.
> Did more research and found that Wisconsin, where I am from, in what is
> called the "eastern low-land segment of Wisconsin", is known for it's
> period in the "Ice Age, somewhere between Pleistocene (most recent
> cycle, 24,000 to 10,000 years ago, and the Holocene, in southeast Wi.,
> thats me, (10,000 (or 12,000 years ago) called the "Wisconsinan
> Glaciation."
> Before Ice Age, Wisconsin was mountainous and had volcano's and tropical
> coral reefs. Which is probably why as Glacier melt carved out our "Great
> Lakes', we were left with so many fossils. I guess the trilobite,
> Mastodon, and more recently Kenosha's "Wooly Mammoth" find, are what we
> are most known for. Diamonds have been found in these boulders, in
> Burlington,my county, and next city north, Racine county. The largest of
> these weighed 15-12/32 carats! Their source is unknown, but is supposed
> to be somewhere in Canada.If anyones inerested I can give you the
> web-site addresses to verify my comments.
> Always wondered if the Alberta Asteroid hit and others may have been
> some of the erratics that are scaterred all over Wisconsin? At certain
> periods we were mostly under water.
> It also doesn't help that in the Upper Peninsula and in Northeren
> Wisconsin, there was, in the last 100+ years, alot of Iron Ore mining
> done. Which is why, where I'm at, it would be almost impossible to
> identify an old meteorite or asteroid "find". I would have to actually
> "SEE" it fall from the skys, to be able to be sure I could get it
> authenticated. Too much Past geological and glacial circumstances
> involved.
> I didn't know this till after, Steve was good enough to identify what I
> thought was my "Meteorite, as an erratic. Hope I didn't bore you all to
> tears, it's just an example of how easily a person can get what looks
> like a meteorite, down to the smooth thumb-nailng surface, and if you
> don't know a bit about the history of the area, it can turn out to be
> something totally different. Steve Schoner knew as soon as he saw my
> specimen and pic.s I sent in. Looks like I'll have to watch the sky,
> here,or travel elsewhere to find meteorites , though I know they must
> have fallen here throughout time. End of long story. Thanks, Marcie
>
>
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Received on Wed 30 Apr 2003 09:54:30 PM PDT


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