what part, if any, do earth craters (derived from meteoric collisions) play in the mining of oil & metals?
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One of the greatest mineral deposits on the planet, the Sudbury, Ontario nickel region, is the result of an ancient meteor impact.  The crater so created was deep enough to tap into molten mantle rock, which partially filled the crater.  Parts of this infill are sulphide rich and form the ore deposits.\n\nThere is some controversy about how much of the nickel and other metals were contributed by the bolide and how much was terrestrial material that was mobilized and focused by the impact structure.\n\nOther ore deposits may be the results of impact structures but Sudbury is the best example.
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soil, timber, oil, minerals, coffee, beans, water, Biotic resources, wind, tides and solar radiation, solar power, bauxite, coal, copper, gold, silver, diamonds, iron, precious metals, lead, limestone, nickel, phosphate, oil shale, rock salt, tin, uranium, and molybdenum, forests, fish, herbs.
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1.  At this stage of the life of the Solar System, there are not many large meteorites left to intersect the Earth's orbit.  The gravitational fields of the large outer planets, especially Jupiter, have had the effect of either hoovering them up, or shepherding them into stable orbits in the asteroid belt.\n\n2.  The Earth is small compared to the separation between large meteorites.  If it was twice the diameter, it would get four times as many impacts, just like an archery target.\n\n3.  Large meteorites reach the surface with so much energy that they usually disintegrate, instead of staying in one piece.  The fragments can disappear by erosion much quicker than the crater does.
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Nickel is a common trace element in rock. Nickel ores are comparatively rare on the earth crust. Most of our planet's nickel is believed to rest in the core, which is supposed to be a nickel-iron alloy similar to comets.
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Fortunately, neither the US nor any other country possesses technology anywhere even close to sufficient to blow up something the size of the moon. If they did, they'd probably blow up Earth first.\n\nAlso, mining the moon for minerals would not be economically feasible, whether the moon is smashed to bits or not.
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The best theory that I've heard is that there was originally another moon around Mars, or a sister planet to it. This moon (or planet) collided with Earth and shattered, thus creating the asteroid belt. This theory has been attached to the theory of a single original continent, with the collision breaking apart the single land mass into multiple continents. It also is used to explain the tilt on the Earth's axis, and some Bible scholars believe it triggered the flood (of Noah).
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depends on the state but usually \n\nGenuine minerals (non-organic rocks)\nCoal/Oil\ndiamonds\nalmost anything below the ground\n\nbut in the mineral rights contract it may specify rights you do not have.
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Yes, I do because Earth is not a closed system. If it were, meteorites would never hit.  I have an interesting comparison (to me at least)  about comets "seeding" the earth....... have you ever noticed that earth resembles an "egg" and comets resemble sperm?  they have heads & tails like sperm...... and the term panspermia......... just a thought.......
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coal, lignite, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, uranium, tungsten, mercury, pyrites, magnesite, fluorspar, gypsum, sepiolite, kaolin, potash, hydropower, arable land
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Search for oil, gold or other precious metal deposits.  Survey sites for faults before putting in a building, road, dam.  Check for landslide or erosion hazards.  Explore volcanoes for eruption risks.  And many more.
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No.  Firstly, no elements are "made" on earth apart from synthetic ones.  All elemental fusion takes place in stars\n\nSecondly, only the elements up to iron are capable of being formed inside a star.  Energetically, it's the wall.  Anything with a higher atomic number than iron can only be formed under the action of a supernova explosion.  Supernovae then seed the interstellar dust with these heavier elements, which eventually coalesce under the effects of gravity to form new stars, and, presumably, planetary systems.  Given the number of new extrasolar planets found recently, this seems to be a relatively common phenomenon.\n\nSo, all the gold on Earth was formed in a supernova explosion, and when the dust particles that condensed out of that explosion gathered together to form the Earth, a small amount of gold was present.  That's where it all came from!\n\nAs Carl Sagan was fond of saying, "We are all star-stuff."
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Its not known for sure-The most widely accepted theory for oil is that it formed primarily from plant life trapped in low oxygen conditions for millions of years- Its not entirely clear if this is true, since we cant seem to find intermediate forms of this transformaion process.  Another theory is that oil is waste product from the deep-crust bacteria that have recently been discovered.  As far as coal goes, there is much better evidence that this was a form of chemically transformed plantlife, probably peat or swamp areas of low oxygen.
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Obviously, it's not an actual explosion, but the effects are very large.  Let's take the one that's supposed to have killed off the dinosaurs.  The meteorite was very large - I don't have the scientific estimates in front of me, but at least a kilometer in diameter, probably more.  Now this thing is big and moving at a very high velocity; it has lots of kinetic energy.  When it hits the earth, the meterite stops moving, but according to the Law of Conservation of Energy, the energy can't just disappear.  Instead, it has to be changed into other forms such as sound, heat, and vibration.\n \n Also, there's Newton's law that says for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.  If you throw a ball at the ground it will bounce back, but if the ball has no elasticity and can't bounce, then the ground itself (part of it, dust etc.) will bounce back instead.  That's what happened when the meteorite hit earth.  Only, of course, it was a lot bigger than a ball, and the crater it created was between 180 and 300 km across.  It's in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, if you're interested.
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Mexico, on what is known as the Yucatan peninsula. 65 million years ago that place was at the bottom of a tropical ocean. The meteorite hit the place at a speed of appr. 90000 kph (55000 mph) and its impact caused 70-80% of life on Earth to be extinguished.\nRecently, new evidence for this was found as far away as New Zealand.
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No.\n\nThe electric charge that causes lightning on the Earth, Jupiter and Saturn is built up in the atmosphere from the solar radiation that hits the atmosphere.\n\nThough the solar particles have an electric charge, without a dense atmosphere, acting as a capacitor to allow the building up of large charges, you don't get lightning bolts. A lightening bolt requires a million volts per meter. \n\nIndividual solar particles interact with other particles but the discharge is of the magnitude of a few electrons worth of charge.  The elves and aurora are caused by solar particles striking the upper atmosphere. But the eleves and aurora are not lightning bolts.   \n\nWithout a dense enough atmosphere there can be no lightning. \n\nThe moon does have a tenuous atmosphere but it is not dense enough to act as a capacitor. \n\nTycho crater was formed from more than one meteorite impact. There was the main impact and then smaller impacts on the big scar.\n\nThe youngest crater is Giordano Bruno and you can see that it has not been overlaid with other impacts.
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Meteors are constantly hitting the Earth.  Most of them are small and burn up in the atsmosphere.
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If an asteroid hits mars, debris is shot up and is sometimes fast enough to escape Mars' gravity. If these rocks get into Earth's orbit, there's a chance that Earth can run into these.\n\nCooldude, please edit your post and give me credit for your first paragraph.