With respect, Eric. I do not have the academic qualifications of JP or yourself. However, I have been in and out of the Sudbury area quite often over a great number of years. when I was a kid I heard people talking of your VMS hypotheses. I have not heard anyone (til now!)defend the volcanogenic origin of the basin. I have attended talks by Dr. Naldrett, by Dr. Walter Peredery of Inco, By Dr. Burkhart Dressler of the Ontario Geological Survey and by numerous other geologists from Inco and Falconbridge who work in the Sudbury area every day. I look at the references cited by Dr. Naldrett in his 2002 presidential address I referred to. There are Yanks from Colorado, Los Alamos, Stanford, Berkely, NASA, the U.S. Navy, Germans, Russians, South Africans, Australians, Brits, and Koan even found some in New Zealand whose work supports the impact theory. There are numerous other impact craters being studied around the world. This work supports the work done at sudbury.
With respect! I think your references from 1948 and the early 1960's are outdated. You refer to Pat Sheridan. He is a very successful man in the mining explor. and dev. business. But I think Pat would be the first to acknowledge Naldrett, Peredery, Dressler and a host of others are more qualified on this subject.
There are hundreds of millions of dollars being spent by companies in the sudbury area under the direction of many brilliant geoscientists. I have not met one in the last 30 years who still subsribe to the theories you talk about. You are definitely in the minority. If you are correct, you should consider being involved in exploration in the Sudbury Basin. You would surely pick up on a lot of stuff overlooked by those using an incorrect theory. |
