Prof. Dr Jan Pajak THE NEW ZEALAND EXPLOSION OF ... - Totalizm

C-31Tapanui explosion as the cause of this rush, is to actually dismiss the historical root onwhich New Zealand society is presently founded.C11. Ceramic deposits that radiate from the Tapanui CraterTwo unusual minerals called "trinitite" and "china stones" are unexplainedgeological features of the South Island, which seem to be directly linked with the TapanuiExplosion. Although both these minerals spread outwards from the Tapanui Crater in alldirections, the evidence available at present indicates that large china stones are mostlygrouped at the east edge of the area where post-explosion debris fell, whereas the finetrinitite deposits mostly occupy the western edge of this area - see the map from Figure C7.In between these two edges the size of pieces changes gradually. Such a gradation of postexplosion fallout probably results from the topography of the hill on whose slope theexplosion occurred, and also from the constituents of materials that originally filled thepresent Crater.The author collected a number of samples of china stones and sent them forresearch to Dr Johannes Fiebag - a West German impact specialist. Fiebag's researchrevealed that New Zealand china stones are quartzites, i.e. metamorphic sand/sandstonesdeformed by high temperature and pressure. Thus the internal structure of china stonesdiffers significantly from the native rock of the places where they are deposited. The quartz(SiO2) of china stones is contaminated with iron (or more specifically - magnetite, i.e.magnetized iron-oxide) and manganese (manganoxide). Iron leads to a reddish or yellowcolour, and manganese to a grey or black colour of the stones. The iron contamination ofchina stones in Tapanui corresponds to a similar contamination in the Tunguska Blast Site,where magnetite was found in "trinitite" globules (see #10 in chapter J).C11.1. Trinitite"Trinitite" is composed of small globules of silicate formed into glassy droplets orbulbs. According to the author's hypothesis it originates from grains of local soil sucked intothe air by the explosion, melted, hardened and then deposited as part of the post-explosiondust fallouts. Trinitite is unknown in nature. So far, all discovered deposits of this raremineral are either formed during tests of nuclear bombs, or in powerful explosions the originof which can also be interpreted as technological, i.e. in Tunguska and Tapanui. Moreinformation about this mineral is contained in the article by Ron Ratkevich: "Trinitite: theorigin of a rare atomic mineral", Lapidary Journal, January 1981, pp. 2276 - 2278.There seems to be large deposits of trinitite-like sands in the Waimea Plains, nearthe town of Mandeville in North Southland, i.e. an area located over 30 kilometres northwestfrom the Tapanui Crater and positioned at the western edge of post-explosion fallout -see Figure C7. Local geologists call these deposits "loess dunes". They take the form ofdunes about 1.5 km long and 200 metres wide, the long axis of which coincides with a linedrawn from the Tapanui explosion (note that this line is an extension of the south-west edgefrom the triangular entry to the Tapanui Crater - see line "T-T" in Figure C2). The Mandevilledeposits were drilled and found to be up to 5.5 metres deep, with traces of more heavyglass droplets at the bottom. Their description is provided in a paper by Peter McIntosh:"Aeolian Deposits in a Loess Source Area of Northern Southland", Geological Society ofNew Zealand NEWSLETTER, No. 71, March 1986, pages 40-41.The present geological explanation for the Mandeville trinitite-like deposits is thatthey consist of volcanic glass originating from the Kawakawa eruption. This explanation,however, has some serious drawbacks, the most important of which are as follows: