1. Randy's Introduction.

Randy made a note that this was in fact our AGM. Monday night, Davis Earle will be at E2018A at 7:30 pm, the talk will be on Observing the Sun from 2 km underground. Don't forget about the lunar eclipse next week!

2. Election of Officers.

Glyn George presided as Election Officer.

President: Chris Stevenson by Acclamation.

Mover: Randy Dodge.

Vice-President: Gary Case by Acclamation.

Mover: Randy Dodge.

Secretary: David Bourgeois by Acclamation.

Mover: Randy Dodge.

Treasurer: Florence McNeily by Election.

Mover: Randy Dodge for Florence McNeily.
Mover: David Bourgeois for Craig Peterman.
Mover: David Bourgeois for Doug Grouchy.

National Representative: Vacant.

Three declined the position.

Observing Chair: Robert Babb by Acclamation.

Mover: Gary Case.

Equipment Officer: Brian Payton by Acclamation.

Mover: Fred Smith.

Webmaster: Craig Peterman by Election.

Mover: Gary Case for Craig Peterman.
Mover: David Bourgeois for David Caruk.

Librarian: Fred Smith by Acclamation.

Mover: Florence McNeily.

Past-President: Randy Dodge.

3. Gerry Squires.

Gerry works as a Mineral Deposits Geologist with the Newfoundland and Labrador Geological Survey. He is also a member. His talk is on _Terrestrial Impact Cratering_. He presents a few local examples, as well. This is also a practice run for a talk he will be giving when the Survey runs a public event(s) in November.

Information for the talk was provided from many places, including the Geological Survey of Canada, which has a site at the University of New Brunswick.

Some of the topics of the talk:

Geological Effects of Impact.
Environmental Consequences of Impact.
Earth/Moon Formation.
Types of meteorites: chondrite and stony-iron.
Tunguska: 10km size, flattened 2000 km^2
1 km crater implies the impactor was vaporised.
Complex crater: > 8km, uplift and rings.
Geomorphic changes: shatter cones, quartz dislocations (10-70 km/s speeds), melted, shattered granite.
There are about 170 known craters on the earth. Surprisingly, they can be economically important.

Farming
Vredefort dome (50 km) at the Witwatersrand Basin is an enriched gold field. At 300 km it is the largest extant impact structure, though no crater is left.
Oil producing (fracture patterns ideal). Chicxulub, near the Yucatan in Mexico. [The BIG one.]
Sudbury Basin. About 60 km. This was 250 km in size, but erosion and movement has taken place.

A tour of Sudbury and other Canadian craters.

Manicouagan.
East/West Clear Water Lakes here in NL.
Mistastin Lake.
Merewether Crater

Could be 3 in total
Not studied, so no proof its an impact
About 200 m in size
Not in bedrock
Steep walls

Health Sciences/Pippy Park, St. John's

Retrieved and took pictures of shattercones before buried by construction.
One rock on display at MUN Geology Department.
Again, not studied to show it was due to impact

"Howley's Comet"

January 19, 1986.
Flight path roughly south east from observer's reports
Near lakes Howley, Ambrose.
Descriptions match those of a large meteorite siting, including one or two of a dust cloud being released.
Possible sitings of more than one/breaking up of object.
Discovery at Ahwachanjeesh Pond of a trench, with pictures. Whatever happened required force and or speed. Matches with the second flight path acquired after all the data put together.
Dr. Rex Gibbons and other provincial people scrounged a few dollars to look into this, but had no luck in finding any remains. [Dr. Gibbons has spoken about this in a talk to us, as well.]

4. Coffee.

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