Uncommon and Impact-Suspicious Geologic Phenomena across Jordan and Adjacent Areas, Arabian Plate

作     者：Werner Schneider Elias Salameh 

作者机构：Im Ziegenforth 15 D-38108 Braunschweig Germany Faculty of Science University of Jordan Amman Jordan 

出 版 物：《Open Journal of Geology》 (地质学期刊（英文）)

年 卷 期：2014年第4卷第12期

页      面：680-717页

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Impact-Suspicious Phenomena Ricochet Impact Impact-Related SiO2-Modifications Sanidine-Hornfels-Impact Facies Rapid Climate Change Holocene Hoyle’s Comet Rise and Fall of Neolithic/Bronze Age Cultures Coincidence of Natural and Cultural Evidence Jordan 

摘      要：For the discovery and analysis of Jebel Waqf as Suwwan (JWS) Impact Crater, Jordan pushed the authors to consequently focusing on other unusual geologic phenomena such as circular/oval structures (some of “crypto-volcanic origin), disharmonic folding, horizontal stylolites, and a broad stripe of?Sanidine-Hornfels-Facies, all of them hosted in Upper Cretaceous/Paleogene carbonate rocks exposed across Jordan and adjacent areas. Shatter cones are the most useful tools during field work in the realm of circular structures. In addition to the impact-geologic data of JWS Impact Structure hitherto available, the cooling process of melted Lower Cretaceous Kurnub-Sandstone could be verified by microscopically identified SiO2-modifications between the melting point (1714°C) and low temperatures. In comparison with the Suffield 500 tons explosion tests [20] and with the Ries Impact Crater, Germany, excavation and vaporization processes of target rocks demand drilling between Central Uplift and Inner Ring of the JWS Impact Structure (“Chert-Carbonate-Impact-Chess Game). In a scenario: “Impacting meets Plate Tectonics, phenomena like disharmonic folding, horizontal stylolites, and an abundance of circular/oval structures of high diameter variation through northwest Jordan are discussed under aspects of gravitational gliding, effects of seismic surface waves (Love-), transpressional structures related to Jordan Rift-Tectonics, and possible impact processes of unknown number occurred on the Arabian Plate in southeastern direction with northwest-directed impulse. The so-called “Mottled Zone of Jordan and Palestine owning a high number (~100) of mineral neoformations with formation temperatures up to ~1120°C(pseudo-wollastonite = β-CaSiO3), is to be interpreted as of “Sanidine-Hornfels-Impact Facies under ricochet conditions along an “Avenue of Ricochet-Impact-Thermo-Cataclysm. Marble-related travertines represent a low temperature facies of the impact event. The temporal proj