Comments on the reply of R.S. Dietz and W.v. Engelhardt

✍ Scribed by A. R. Crawford

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 105 KB
• Volume: 66
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0028-1042
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00368073

✦ Synopsis

The authors state in their third sentence that the paper is 'a new attempt to discredit the reality of meteoritic impact structures on earth ..... '. That this is untrue will be apparent to anyone who reads the first sentence of my second paragraph, in which I say that '. .... the impact hypothesis is very fashionable and has probably been over-applied'. The authors have not read sufficiently carefully what I tried to write clearly. May I emphasise most strongly that I do accept the existence or almost certain existence on Earth of (a) meteoritic impact craters, (b) Dr. Dietz's 'astroblemes' and, of course, meteorites. What I do not accept is that all structures or bodies so regarded are necessarily correctly identified. The authors' criticism of my grid is, broadly, one that I could (and did) make myself. Many of the localities are no doubt randomly distributed. But some points I must dispute.