Research Tools and Sources for
Phenomenal Disaster:
America’s Deadliest Forest Fire
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Google Earth – www.google.com/earth/desktop/
Used to visualize the large area of hundreds of square miles in 3D, to examine the timing and to organize survivor accounts by location.
If you have Google Earth you can view my kmz file – download;
www.kpixels.com/publishing/PhenomenalDisaster1871.kmz
This is a very busy file that I’m in the process of cleaning up and working on an explanation of it’s contents.
Earth Impact Effects Program
The version used for the book to estimate different impact scenarios;
impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEarth/ImpactEffects/
Here is a newer “user friendly” version called Impact: Earth
www.purdue.edu/impactearth/
Hear what a bolide or large exploding meteor sounds like;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JoVq9st9tw
Now compare that terrifying sound to 1871 survivors describing the sounds as blast, thunder, artillery, detonations.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Science Demonstrations;
Magnesium Burning in Water
Magnesium Reacting with Sand
Iron Combustion Products
Sources/Works Cited for
Phenomenal Disaster: America’s Deadliest Forest Fire