“Recent Impact Craters and Human History” with Dallas Abbott (Apr 2006)

Originally presents 8 Apr 2006

Dr. Dallas Abbott explores distant regions and the ocean floors for subtle evidence of some of the greatest catastrophes affecting our planet: asteroid and meteorite collisions. During the past few years, Dallas has shared her explorations to places such as the South Island of New Zealand, where she found evidence of a great tsunami that featured in Maori oral traditions. In this Workshop, she will provide an update about her recent investigations.

To learn more about previous E2C Workshops on this topics:

Introduction to this Workshop

Here is the introductory slide show presented by Dr. Passow.

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Classroom Resources

New Revelations about Impact Craters

LESSON PLAN: “BLAST FROM THE PAST – IMPACT CRATERS” 
[An “Earth2Class Workshops for Teacher” Module]
Created by: Mirtha Landaira, Lawrence Leung, and Linda McCall
E2C Summer Curriculum Development Workshop, Summer 2004

Impact Simulation Model suggested by Dallas Abbott:
“Earth Impact Effects Program”: an easy-to-use, interactive web site for estimating the regional environmental consequences of an impact on Earth http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/

 Hawai’i Space Grant College Teacher Page
http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/CratersTe.html

http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/CrateringDoc.html

 Impact Cratering on a Rainy Day
http://www.teacherlink.usu.edu/tlnasa/units/PlanetaryGeology/9.pdf

 Explore Craters
http://www.kidscosmos.org/kid-stuff/craters.html

 “Crater Crazy” by Andrea Gianopoulos
http://www.astronomy.com/content/static/parentsteachers/activities/cratercrazy.asp

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Of course, the best way to find useful materials for your students is through aDLESE search:
www.dlese.org

Other Resources for This Topic

“Impact Earth” from Purdue University

SELECTED WEB SITES ABOUT IMPACT CRATERS

 Terrestrial Impact Craters site—Calvin J. Hamilton
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/tercrate.htm

 Educator’s Guide to Impact Craters
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/edu/craters.htm

 Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards
http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/index.html

 Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/SIC/impact_cratering/intro/

 Terrestrial Impact Craters, 2^nd ed. by Christian Koeberl and Virgil L. Sharpton
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/craters/

 Hawai’i Space Grant College Teacher Page
http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/CratersTe.html

http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/CrateringDoc.html

 Impact Cratering on a Rainy Day
http://www.teacherlink.usu.edu/tlnasa/units/PlanetaryGeology/9.pdf

 Explore Craters
http://www.kidscosmos.org/kid-stuff/craters.html

 “Crater Crazy” by Andrea Gianopoulos
http://www.astronomy.com/content/static/parentsteachers/activities/cratercrazy.asp

Asteroid impact craters could cradle life (NewScientist.com, 10 Sep 2004)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6383

 SELECTED WEB SITES ABOUT TSUNAMIS
US Geological Survey Southeast Asia FAQ
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/neic_slav_faq.html

USGS Tsunami Information Links
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/bytopic/tsunami.html

Unearthing Proof of a Tsunami in the Northwest
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629401

University of Washington “Tsunami!
”http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/intro.html

USGS Coastal & Marine Geology Program
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/

FEMA Hazards—Tsunamis
http://www.fema.gov/hazards/tsunamis/

NWS Tsunami Awareness Page
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/okx/tsunami.html 

 SELECTED WEB SITES ABOUT NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC TSUNAMIS

 DID A BOLIDE IMPACT CAUSE CATASTROPHIC TSUNAMIS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND?
ABBOTT, Dallas H.¹, MATZEN, Andrew¹, BRYANT, Edward A.², and PEKAR, Stephen F.¹
(1) Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, PO Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964-8000, dallas@ldeo.columbia.edu, (2) Faculty of Science, Univ of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2522, Australia
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2003AM/finalprogram/abstract_65239.htm

 New Zealand Hazard Watch
http://www.gns.cri.nz/hazardwatch/latest/index.html

 Tsunami Sites in New Zealand
http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/newzealand/

 Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/abouttsunamis.htm