re: #107 Jay C

OK then: Wikipedia had the guy from Trinity Southwest as the lead on the dig: so maybe the organization of the project isn’t that simple. I wouldn’t be surprised

And you may be quite right about the shocked quartz and the rest: as I said, the evidence (at least as far as my untutored eye can tell) is not conclusive one way or another. But what triggers my suspicions - at least for now - is that whoever is managing the project has made public announcements trumpeting the “facts” of the bolide hypothesis as a given - several “givens” AFAICT -, and that, to me, is *unscientific* - so more (properly peer-reviewed) research needed.

More research is always good. Just not from those grifters.

But anyway, yeah, the shocked quartz is about as diagnostic as an iridium anomaly with tektites. It’s pretty much a QED thing for an impact event.