one of the world’s most intriguing meteorite impact ejecta deposits.
Spanish geologists, mainly from the University of Zaragoza, have recently continued what they have been doing for the past two to three decades: denying the existence of the 40-km-diameter Azuara impact and the Pelarda Formation—a prominent ejecta deposit formed as a result—and instead postulating a wide variety of normal geological processes. The most recent example of these thoroughly absurd models was published recently:
Simón, J.L., Arlegui, L.E., Luzón, A., Peiro, A., Soriano, Ma A., Liesa, C.L. (2026) El controvertido complejo conglomerático de Sierra Pelarda (Cordillera Ibérica Central): el reciclado de clastos en un modelo integral morfo-tecto-sedimentario. – Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España 39 (1).https://doi.org/10.55407/rsge.120742
In this manipulative-sounding article, with Prof. Simón of the University of Zaragoza as the lead author, 30 years of extensive literature on the Pelarda Formation as a massive impact ejecta deposit is completely ignored and not even mentioned. We will soon publish a critical commentary on this unbelievable scientific blunder, but we would like to remind visitors here to download our revised articles from 2019 on the Pelarda Formation ejecta of the Azuara impact structure. Click the DOIs:
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10.13140/RG.2.2.20041.51049
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10.13140/RG.2.2.36464.83200
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10.13140/RG.2.2.18396.55685
