[meteorite-list] Impact evidence in trees?

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:37:17 -0700
Message-ID: <4EF0C7CD.8050708_at_alumni.caltech.edu>

Trees grow like this when subjected to a steady load for several years,
not when they are exposed to a blast.

At high altitude, this kind of bending is common from heavy snow loading
that persists well into the spring growth season. At lower altitudes, as
in the Polish forest, it is most likely that the bending is induced.
Foresters sometimes load young trees on plantations (and that looks like
a plantation) to produce curved wood for a variety of purposes, most
especially for furniture making.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 12/20/2011 10:26 AM, Mike Fiedler wrote:
> OK, check this out . . . .
>
> Check out this picture:
> http://pics.livejournal.com/neferjournal/pic/000zcpp1/g21
>
> Looks like these trees ALL were bent to the ground, radiating away
> from a common point!
>
> The info I was given places this near "Gryfino, Poland", but offers no
> explanation for the trees' shape.
>
> Is there a Meteorite at the vertex of all that flexing???
>
> Anyone on the list know more about it? Anyone live close to Gryfino?
>
> -- Mike
Received on Tue 20 Dec 2011 12:37:17 PM PST