Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI
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This volume represents the proceedings of the homonymous international conference on all aspects of impact cratering and planetary science, which was held in October 2019 in Brasília, Brazil. The volume contains a sizable suite of contributions dealing with regional impact records (Australia, Sweden), impact craters and impactites, early Archean impacts and geophysical characteristics of impact structures, shock metamorphic investigations, post-impact hydrothermalism, and structural geology and morphometry of impact structures—on Earth and Mars. Many contributions report results from state-of-the-art investigations, for example, several that are based on electron backscatter diffraction studies, and deal with new potential chronometers and shock barometers (e.g., apatite). Established impact cratering workers and newcomers to the field will appreciate this multifaceted, multidisciplinary collection of impact cratering studies.
Extreme plastic deformation and subsequent Pb loss in shocked xenotime from the Vredefort Dome, South Africa
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Published:August 02, 2021
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Aaron J. Cavosie, Christopher L. Kirkland, Steven M. Reddy, Nicholas E. Timms, Cristina Talavera, Maya R. Pincus, 2021. "Extreme plastic deformation and subsequent Pb loss in shocked xenotime from the Vredefort Dome, South Africa", Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI, Wolf Uwe Reimold, Christian Koeberl
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Accessory mineral U-Pb geochronometers are crucial tools for constraining the timing of deformation in a wide range of geological settings. Despite the growing recognition that intragrain age variations within deformed minerals can spatially correlate to zones of microstructural damage, the causal mechanisms of Pb loss are not always evident. Here, we report the first U-Pb data for shock-deformed xenotime, from a detrital grain collected at the Vredefort impact structure in South Africa. Orientation mapping revealed multiple shock features, including pervasive planar deformation bands (PDBs) that accommodate up to 40° of lattice misorientation by <100>{010} slip, and also an ~50-µm-wide...
- actinides
- Africa
- Cenozoic
- deformation
- electron microscopy data
- Free State South Africa
- ion probe data
- isotope ratios
- isotopes
- lamellae
- lead
- mass spectra
- metals
- metamorphism
- microstructure
- Miocene
- Neogene
- numerical models
- phosphates
- planar deformation features
- plastic deformation
- radioactive isotopes
- relative age
- SEM data
- shock metamorphism
- SHRIMP data
- South Africa
- Southern Africa
- spectra
- stable isotopes
- Tertiary
- U-238/Pb-206
- uranium
- Vredefort Dome
- xenotime