or what R. Huber, K. Lauterbach and R. Darga omit in their article in MAPS
The myth of the Chiemgau impact and the actual origins of the landforms according to Huber, Lauterbach and Darga – and what the authors forgot to mention.
The open-access article by Huber, Lauterbach and Darga, published in the latest issue of the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science, with peer reviewers W.-U. Reimold and M. Boslough, and editor C. Koeberl, is of such a low standard that it was never expected from the renowned journal of the Meteoritical Society.
The authors: a former marine geologist and current research data manager, a private individual not involved in science, and the well-known Ice Age geologist, who have never themselves worked on, let alone published on, meteoritic impacts and impact research topics such as impact geology, impact geophysics, impact mineralogy/petrography, impact geochemistry, shock metamorphism, impact crater formation, or impact fracture mechanics.
Their article is currently the latest milestone in an almost 20-year history of bitter, sometimes polemical, attempts to portray the world’s most significant Chiemgau impact event of the Holocene as non-existent and a myth. The fact that some impact databases continue to ignore this makes the matter neither better nor more convincing.
A very brief commentary article by K. Ernstson and J. Poßekel can be found here and on ResearchGate . There, a list of 55 (fifty-five) publications by the researchers on the Chiemgau impact is also included, most of which are clickable.