The Flynn Creek meteorite impact site and changing views on impact cratering

摘要

Abstract: Flynn Creek is one of two confirmed meteorite impact sites in Tennessee, USA. The first published mention of the Flynn Creek Structure was by J.M. Safford, Tennessee's State Geologist, in his Geology of Tennessee (1869). Subsequently, the site was investigated briefly in the 1920s and 1930s, but it was only in the 1960s following the founding of the United States Geological Survey's Astrogeological Studies Group as a lead-up to manned lunar exploration that Flynn Creek.