Authors: Harry K. Hahn
Here a summary of the Raman-spectroscopic analysis of rock-samples which I have collected near the possible Ø 12 x 9 km “Tinajo Impact Crater“ on Lanzarote, and on other interesting sites on the Island. A feldspar-sample collected on the sample site 65, that is close to the center of the hypothetical impact crater, may show a Raman-spectra which indicates (W) weakly-shocked feldspar. (an explanation to Raman spectra of shocked Alkali-Feldspar: see at page 17 in the Appendix 3). Minerals found in the analyses: Labradorite, Apatite-(Ca-F), Nepheline or Dachiardite-Ca, Forsterite, Reyerite, Dolomite or Rosasite, Kutnohorite or Calcite, Reynersonite(?). Images of the analysed rock samples and photos of the sample sites are in the Appendix at page 12). According to my hypothesis the hot spots which caused the Canary Islands originally were impact sites of large ejecta fragments, which were ejected from the Permian Triassic Impact Crater in the Arctic Sea. And I am sure that these impact sites ( hot spots ) were produced by the same large-scale secondary impact event ( caused by the PTI ), which also has formed the "Bay of Lyon Crater" and other impact structures in Spain. However in all collected rock samples no quartz was found. This makes it difficult to provide evidence for this secondary impact of the PTI. The Gravity Anomaly Map of the Canarian Islands indicates a large scale Impact Event. This impact event probably was the result of Ejecta from the PTI (Permian Triassic Impact) which formed a large secondary crater, the hypothetical Ø430x290 km Gibraltar Crater (GIC). (see gravity anomaly map on the next page). The smaller oblique (ellipitical) impact craters indicated on this Gravity Anomaly map, offshore of the Islands Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Teneriffa, belong to this impact event and are located along the hypothetical crater-wall (-rim) of the GIC. A magnetic anomaly map of the Atlantic Ocean-floor south-west of Spain provides indication for this Ø430x290 km Gibraltar Crater. (see the explanation on pages 28 & 29 of my PT Impact Hypothesis Part 2.
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