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Is granite an extraterrestrial rock?
Kola the Super deep Borehole in Murmansk, Russia. The deepest hole drilled ever. The main stream geology is convinced that both granite and basalt are of volcanic origin, granite is a slow cooling form of magma and basalt is the fast cooling form. But my hypothesis is that the two are not related and granite actually is an extraterrestrial rock. Here you have a story that proves that hypothesis. It’s about the the Kola borehole allowed a direct look at the structure of the crust and put geologist’s theories to the test.
One of the most surprising findings was the absence of the transition from granite to basalt, which scientists had long expected to exist between three and six kilometers below the surface. Known to geologists as the “Conrad discontinuity,” this transition in rock type was reasoned to exist due to the results of seismic-reflection surveys.
Though the discontinuity has been detected beneath all of the continents, the drill at Kola never encountered the proposed layer of basalt. Instead, the granitic rock was found to extend beyond the twelve kilometer point. But the most intriguing discovery made by the Kola borehole researchers is undoubtedly the detection of biological activity in rocks more than two billion years old. The clearest evidence of life came in the form of microscopic fossils encased in organic compounds that remained surprisingly intact despite the extreme pressures and temperatures of the surrounding rock. Which means that the granite is much younger and isn’t part of the earth crust and just hit the area and came after the formation of the original earth crust. What they found beneath was a metamorphic change in the rock (i.e. from intense heat and pressure), and not a change in rock type as they had previously anticipated.
Interesting is the metamorphic rock found beneath as it was formed as a result of the impact of the granite body.
“ Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock types, in a process called metamorphism, which means "change in form".[1] The original rock (protolith) is subjected to heat (temperatures greater than 150 to 200 °C) and pressure (100 megapascals (1,000 bar) or more), causing profound physical or chemical change. The protolith may be a sedimentary, igneous, or existing metamorphic rock.“
Source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kola-superdeep-borehole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphic_rock
Earth crust and impacts
There is evidence that the earth is hosting extraterrestrial rocks but the difference to my hypothesis is that I think that lots of it is much younger than predicted could be even thousands of years and not millions proven by young Iridium traces found in many parts of the earth. Why don’t we find enough craters on earth like on moon although our earth has a stronger pulling power?
it is because the older craters have been covered by younger once.
Here an article by the National Geographic tells a little bit about rocks that visited our planet and made changes in the earth crust;
Holdsworth and his colleagues had an inkling that the rotated layers and other curious features of the rock’s fractures might be the result of a precipitous plunge, but they needed more data to make the case. So Killingback took on the challenge for his master's thesis research.
More about this interesting story:
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-and-technology/2020/10/in-what-is-today-scotland-before-plants-or-animals-existed-this
Granite and impact craters
Another t evidence for the impact is the Verdefort crater in the Transvall Basin in South Africa, the largest impact crater on Earth almost 300 km in diameter. As shown below
It was originally thought to have been formed by a volcanic eruption, It consists of a granite dome 40 km in diameter in the center of the crater. Then we have different kinds of rocks forming rings round the crater center like an arc of Ventersdorp lavas formed by the lava flowing out of Earth after the impact and then we have the outer rings formed mainly by Ghaap Dolomite rocks a form of carbonate mineral like Limestone a part of the carbonate platform in the Transvaal and Griqualand West Basinswhich which belongs to the original Earth before the impact. We find high content of iridium in the area which is mostly found in meteorites . We find also platinum what I think that it has extraterrestrial origin and wasn’t formed on Earth, the same could be the case with gold and the whole platinum-group metals. Vredefort's different magnetism is just simply because it belongs to a different planet.
Also the Tswaing crater in South Africa seen below is a smaller one (1.15 km diameter and 100 m deep) it has enough granite remains remains to be a prove that this meteorite was composed from granite. It's also an evidence for the existence of stony meteorites impacts and not only iron meteorites.The surrounding area known as the Bushveld complex is one of the important sources of the platinum group metals. . The crate floor is covered with a high concentrated saline lake, what could be an indication that the salt on earth could have an extraterrestrial origin.
Source:
www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/epo_web/impact_cratering/enviropages/Tswaing/Tswainggeologypage.html
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