Fire and brimstone is something more likely associated with a volcanic event, than a meteorite strike.
A meteorite strike or airburst large enough to cause serious destruction is rare - probably at most 1 per 100 years somewhere on the Earth. In a particular area, it would be unknown for millennia. The suggestion that it is happened here is speculation based on multiple lines of evidence.
This paper may have been completely wrong, but, the geological evidence is interesting. I think that destruction myths are often fashioned around a societal memory of something real (and the stories can be borrowed by different cultures). You don't get a flood myth without some societal memory of large floods, even if a true deluge never happened. Likewise you wouldn't get a fire and brimstone myth unless either volcanic or meteoric destruction was something known to happen, at to at least some degree. It doesn't mean that there ever was a city of Sodom, two angels, or a man named Lot.
A meteorite strike or airburst large enough to cause serious destruction is rare - probably at most 1 per 100 years somewhere on the Earth. In a particular area, it would be unknown for millennia. The suggestion that it is happened here is speculation based on multiple lines of evidence.
This paper may have been completely wrong, but, the geological evidence is interesting. I think that destruction myths are often fashioned around a societal memory of something real (and the stories can be borrowed by different cultures). You don't get a flood myth without some societal memory of large floods, even if a true deluge never happened. Likewise you wouldn't get a fire and brimstone myth unless either volcanic or meteoric destruction was something known to happen, at to at least some degree. It doesn't mean that there ever was a city of Sodom, two angels, or a man named Lot.
