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Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV

GSA Special Papers

Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV

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Geological Society of America

Volume

465

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1130/SPE465

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© 2010 Geological Society of America

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ISBN print:

9780813724652

Publication date:

September 01, 2010

Book Chapter

Melt particle characteristics of the within- and out-of-crater suevites from the Bosumtwi impact structure, Ghana: Implications for crater formation

Author(s)

Louise Coney

Impact Cratering Research Group, School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, P.O. WITS, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa

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Wolf Uwe Reimold

Wolf Uwe Reimold

Impact Cratering Research Group, School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, P.O. WITS, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa, and Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institute at Humboldt University Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany

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Roger L. Gibson

Roger L. Gibson

Impact Cratering Research Group, School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, P.O. WITS, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa

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Christian Koeberl

Christian Koeberl

Department of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria, and Natural History Museum, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria

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Paula Ogilvie

Impact Cratering Research Group, School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, P.O. WITS, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa

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Doi:

https://doi.org/10.1130/2010.2465(21)

Published:

September 01, 2010

A petrographic and geochemical comparison of suevites from the LB-07A and LB-08A cores recovered during 2004 by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program with suevites from outside of the crater rim of the Bosumtwi impact structure indicates contrasting mechanisms of formation for these respective impact breccias. The within-crater suevites form only a small part of the lithic impact breccia–dominated impactite crater fill, in contrast to the impactites from outside of the crater, which consist solely of suevite. The clasts of suevites from within the crater display relatively low levels of shock (for most material <45 GPa). The numbers of shocked...

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