The Sylacauga Astrobleme and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Event
Introduction
Since 1989, I have involved myself in an independent study of the geology of central Alabama, first as an investigative journalist then as a geological researcher.
Numerous paleontology, stratigraphic, and geological surveys have been conducted in the area since 1840 but the morphology of the region still remains a mystery. Regional metamorphism is rampant and current theory has it the product of continental collision. While some of this may be true, much of what happened here came about as the result of at least one, perhaps more, impacts of huge asteroids into the region. This impact(s) caused a mojor breach in the earth's crust and triggered major orogenic events, all but destroying the terrestrial signature left by the asteroid(s).
An exhausting, time consuming search exposed the rocks made by impact which led to the exposure of a giant astrobleme centered near Sylacauga, Alabama. Comparing evidence from this impact with the information gathered from the Cretaceous-Tertiary event revealed a startling correlation, which for the first time, provided a major impact in the very heart of the North American strewn field within almost equal distances of known deposits.
This information is offered up in good faith to everyone, so until science has had time to examine the evidence, I urge readers to please not destroy these valuable rock formations.
Harold Clinton Gragg