The Chiemgau impact and the Digital Terrain Model DGM 1

Article Part 2: the medium-sized c

Article Part 2: the medium-sized craters

Continuing our description with a summary of the impact inventory of the Chiemgau strewn field (Part 1), we present here the second part, which is again published on the science portal Researchgate as a preprint. The article can be downloaded here as a PDF file (click on the title):

The Chiemgau Impact (Germany) meteorite crater strewn field and the role of Digital Terrain Models. – Model craters, Part 2: the Bergham, Riederting, Seeon, Natural-Monument, Purkering and Windschnur medium-sized craters by Kord Ernstson and Jens Poßekel

The start image above shows a topographic map and terrain surface of the digital terrain model DGM 1 for the natural monument at the Seeon horse farm, which has always been listed in maps and descriptions as a typical dead ice hole from the last ice age and is listed by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) as a geotope particularly worth seeing.

The DGM 1 symbolizes a necessary rethinking of the LfU’s Bavarian ice age research, which continues to adhere to a dead ice hypothesis that has never been scientifically or geologically substantiated, with countless so-called dead ice holes and their designation as geotopes, which was recently documented in an article and can be seen as an example of scientific falsification by the LfU in the case of the Tüttensee meteorite crater.