Alaska

A Proposal for the existence of a previously undiscovered impact crater in Alaska
by Bill Fikes Jr.

Crater Name: Fikes Crater

Location: South Central Alaska

Discovery date: July/01/2001*

I propose that there was a significant impact on the South Central coast of Alaska.
I surmise from the evidence that this impact far predates the Chicxulub crater in Mexico.
I think that the Chucach mountains represent a central uplift and that the shock metamorphic
features evident along the northern slopes of the Alaska Mountain Range support this proposal.
Gross land form features radiating in a pattern consistent with identified radial and concentric fracture patterns and shock wave propagation from the proposed point of impact may also be observed.

While I have no significant training in geology or earth impact structure it just seems apparent to me that at some time there must have been a cause for the almost perfect arc that can be observed in the following illustrations.

I am compling data to prove or disprove this and would like to solicit input from anyone with interest or education in the fields of geology, geophysics, geomorphology, planetary geology, impact structure or related fields.

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Remnants of fracturing from the impact

*I have had this notion for many years, but chose the date on the earliest published computer image as the "discovery date" (verifiable date)

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References:
Earth Impact Database, 2002. <http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/> (Accessed: 05/JAN/2003)
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/GalleryTwo/digiterrain.gif Jeff Pederson, Digital Design Center, Geophysical Insitute.