Research Paper on:
Wylie Poag's The Chesapeake Invader

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we drilled some cores into [the ground in southeastern Virginia] and we did a seismic survey of the area," says Poag. "We were looking at the subsurface geology and the  groundwater aquifers of the southeastern area(Lloyd, Tsai). But, what they discovered has had geologists and astrologists debating the impact of a meteor and the likelihood of its recurrence. C.Wylie  Poag states that from these mundane assays from water well drilling he observed that the subsurface arrangement of aquifers was chaotically abnormal(Poag,20). Part of that abnormality was the presence of  fossilized organisms found in the rocks that allowed scientists to state that the impact occurred nearly thirty-five million years ago. What is particularly amazing about this find was that  it opened the door to how other meteor impact sites might be found. In addtion to his own growing body of evidence, both Texaco and Exxon corporations drilled in the  area and the prospective core samplings that they took corroborated Poags findings. Basically, the drilling they did found that the difference in the sediment types on the Bay floor were  vastly different from one another, which suggested that the layers had at one time been scattered and dispersed by a heavy impact. "No part of the crater is visible  at the surface, but you can see the edge of a geological ridge, a scarp, a sharp slope, occurs at the middle of the peninsula," Poag said, contrasting it with  the gentle rolling topography an untouched landscape would have(Lloyd, Tsai). Poag surmises that the prospect of the Earth encountering another seismic collision such as the Chesapeake Invader are about  the same as it would be of a person dying in a commercial airline crash, which is nearly one in twenty thousand. The discovery, he argues, of the Chesapeake Invader