THE KALAHARI IMPACTS HYPOTHESIS FOR MOON GENESIS: DID THE MOROKWENG METEORITE IMPACT (145MA) BREAK UP THE GONDWANALAND AND LET CONTINENTAL FLUID BASALT (CFB) DISCHARGE TO FORM THE MOON?

摘要

The Morokweng Meteorite Impact of 145 Ma (Million years ago), which constitutes chronological J/K (Jurassic/Cretaceous) boundary, seems to have broken up the Gondwanaland, whose broken edge in the southern coast of South Africa incubated the oldest modern human sites. The north-south separation of Karoo and a vast flat surface of the Kalahari Desert indicate that the basin was filled with the discharge of Continental Fluid Basalt (CFB) from upper mantle. The author surmises that the ejected CFB reached the outer atmosphere and generated the Moon.