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suevite
Ilmenite phase transformations in suevite from the Ries impact structure (Germany) record evolution in pressure, temperature, and oxygen fugacity conditions Available to Purchase
Understanding the Ries impact structure subsurface from high-resolution seismic data Open Access
Oceanic resurge deposits at the Rochechouart impact structure (France) suggest a marine target environment Available to Purchase
X-ray computed microtomography of diamondiferous impact suevitic breccia and clast-poor melt rock from the Kara astrobleme (Pay-Khoy, Russia) Available to Purchase
Formation of the crater suevite sequence from the Chicxulub peak ring: A petrographic, geochemical, and sedimentological characterization Open Access
The Mesoproterozoic Stac Fada proximal ejecta blanket, NW Scotland: constraints on crater location from field observations, anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, petrography and geochemistry Available to Purchase
After-coal diamonds: an enigmatic type of impact diamonds Available to Purchase
Kaveri Crater – An Impact Structure in the Precambrian Terrain of Southern India Available to Purchase
Density current origin of a melt-bearing impact ejecta blanket (Ries suevite, Germany) Open Access
Petrography of the impact breccias of the Enkingen (SUBO 18) drill core, southern Ries crater, Germany: New estimate of impact melt volume Available to Purchase
Lateral transport of suevite inferred from 3D shape-fabric analysis: Evidence from the Ries impact crater, Germany Available to Purchase
Impactoclastic Density Current Emplacement of Terrestrial Meteorite-Impact Ejecta and the Formation of Dust Pellets and Accretionary Lapilli: Evidence from Stac Fada, Scotland Available to Purchase
Mechanisms of late synimpact to early postimpact crater sedimentation in marine-target impact structures Available to Purchase
This study is a first attempt to compile sedimentological features of synimpact to postimpact marine sedimentary successions from marine-target impact craters utilizing six well-studied examples (Chesapeake Bay, Gardnos, Kärdla, Lockne, Mjølnir, and Wetumpka). The sedimentary formations succeed autochthonous breccias and, in some cases, allochthonous suevites. These late synimpact and early postimpact depositional successions (on top of the suevites) appear to be in comparable stratigraphic developments and facies in marine-impact craters. Their composition reflects common mechanisms of sedimentation; they were developed from avalanches/scree, slides, and slumps through sequences of mass-flow–dominated deposition before ending with density currents and fine-grained sedimentation from fluidal flow and suspension. With detailed study, it may be possible to separate the late synimpact and early postimpact successions based on their clast composition relative to target stratigraphy. The process-related comparisons presented here are highly simplified, including characteristics of moat, central peak, and marginal basin sedimentation of both simple and complex craters.
Melt particle characteristics of the within- and out-of-crater suevites from the Bosumtwi impact structure, Ghana: Implications for crater formation Available to Purchase
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 quartz grains, as well as fragments of diaplectic glass of quartz and feldspar in suevites decrease with depth through the LB-07A core (maximum three sets of planar deformation features [PDFs]). In contrast, the out-of-crater suevites sampled north and south of the crater contain up to four PDF sets in quartz clasts, ballen cristobalite, and higher proportions of diaplectic glass than the within-crater suevites. In addition, the suevites from outside of the crater contain significantly more melt particles (18–37 vol%) than the within-crater suevites (<5 vol%). Melt fragment sizes in suevites from outside the crater are much larger than those from suevites within the crater (maximum 40 cm versus 1 cm). The currently known distribution of impactites outside of the crater would be consistent with a low-angle impact from the east. We propose that the within-crater suevites and polymict lithic breccias were emplaced either via slumping off the crater walls or lateral movement of some melted and much displaced target rock within the crater. Limited admixture of fallback material from the ejecta plume is evident in the uppermost impactite deposit encountered in core LB-05B. In contrast, the out-of-crater suevites formed by fallout from a laterally differentiated ejecta plume, which resulted in different clast populations to the north and south of the crater.
Geochemistry of basement rocks and impact breccias from the central uplift of the Bosumtwi crater, Ghana--Comparison of proximal and distal impactites Available to Purchase
Crater-fill impact breccia and basement rock samples from the 1.07 Ma Bosumtwi impact structure (Ghana) were recovered for the first time in 2004 during an International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)–sponsored drilling project. Here, we present detailed results of major- and trace-element analyses of 119 samples from drill core LB-08A, together with the chemical compositions of melt particles from suevite. The meta-graywacke and phyllite/slate crater basement rocks can be easily distinguished from each other on the basis of their bulk chemical compositions. A comparison of the chemical compositions of crater-fill and fallout suevites, as well as between proximal and distal impactites, reveals that LB-08A suevites have higher MgO, CaO, and Na 2 O contents than fallout suevites and, similarly, that the CaO and Na 2 O contents are higher by a factor of approximately two in LB-08A suevites than in Ivory Coast tektites. Noticeable differences occur in Cr, Co, and Ni contents between the different impactites; higher abundances are observed for these elements in distal impactites. The observed differences in composition in the various impactites mainly reflect mixing of different proportions of the original target lithologies, as can be seen in the differences in the clast populations between crater-fill and fallout suevites. However, the original impactite compositions may have also been modified by postimpact alteration, particularly in the proximal impactites. Melt particles in suevite show significant differences in major-element compositions between the different samples investigated, but also within a given sample, indicating that they represent melts derived from different lithologies.
Target and impact deposits at Rochechouart impact structure, France Available to Purchase
The 200 Ma, 24-km-diameter Rochechouart impact structure was formed in granitic intrusive and metamorphic rocks of Variscan age (400–300 Ma) close to the margin of the Mesozoic sea. Fractured basement and autochthonous breccias form a several-decameter-thick semicontinuous zone over an 18–20-km-diameter zone. Impact melt rocks, suevite, and polymict lithic breccia are spread over an ~15 km inner zone, forming a centro-symmetric deposit inclined 0.6°N. No topographic expression of the central uplift exists. The crater floor is at the same elevation (~±50 m) over a zone at least 20 km in diameter, corresponding to the central part of the original crater. The pre-erosional diameter of the crater is probably larger than previously thought and possibly reached 40–50 km. The structure appears much less eroded than previously thought, as the sequence of crater fill is complete as exposed near Chassenon. The suevite in Chassenon is capped by an ash-like horizontal deposit of very glass-poor, fine-grained, lithic debris derived from basement rocks. Material with similar grain size and composition is observed in centimeter- to meter-thick multilayered glass-bearing intercalations (dikes) cutting through the suevite. The integrity of the Chassenon sequence strikingly contrasts with the age and morphology of the structure, implying that a rapid and thick sedimentary deposit has covered the crater to protect it from erosion. The impactoclastic top deposit also firmly constrains the thickness and volume of the initial crater fill, which appear extremely depleted (by a factor of 5 or more) compared with similar-sized impact structures and model-based calculations. This anomaly remains unexplained. All the impactites, including the glass-poor and glass-free impactites, are characterized by a prominent K-metasomatism signifying pronounced postimpact hydrothermal activity. Exposed in isolated occurrences from the center to the periphery of the inner 15-km-diameter zone, impact melt rocks are extremely unlikely to have formed a continuous sheet. They display a large variety of textures, grading from pure melt rock into basal suevite, which are distinct in composition, texture, and setting from the main suevite body forming the top of the impact deposit. Heterogeneity and relative inefficiency in mixing are characteristic of the whole impact deposit, resulting in heterogeneous melts at the scale of hand specimens, but also at the kilometer scale, as suggested by close ties between the composition of melt-bearing rocks and the subjacent target rocks.
Ballen quartz and cristobalite in impactites: New investigations Available to Purchase
The study of α-quartz and α-cristobalite ballen in rocks from 16 impact structures (Bosumtwi, Chesapeake Bay, Chicxulub, Dellen, El'gygytgyn, Jänisjärvi, Lappajärvi, Logoisk, Mien, Popigai, Puchezh-Katunki, Ries, Rochechouart, Sääksjärvi, Ternovka, and Wanapitei) shows that ballen silica occurs mainly in impact melt rock and also in suevite, and more rarely in other types of impactites. Ballen α-cristobalite by itself was observed only in samples from the youngest craters studied here (at Bosumtwi and El'gygytgyn), but it occurs in association with α-quartz ballen in impactites from structures with intermediate ages (from ca. 35 to 120 Ma); thus, our observations suggest that α-cristobalite ballen are back-transformed to α-quartz with time. Transmission electron microscope observations show that α-cristobalite and α-quartz ballen have similar microtextures and are formed of several tiny angular crystals with sizes up to ~6 μm. The observation of toasted α-quartz ballen, notably at the Popigai impact structure, further supports the notion that toasting is due to vesicle formation after pressure release, at high post-shock temperatures, and, thus, represents the beginning of quartz breakdown due to heating. Our investigation increases the number of impact structures at which ballen silica has been found to 35.
Ries crater, Germany: The Enkingen magnetic anomaly and associated drill core SUBO 18 Available to Purchase
A detailed total intensity magnetic survey of a local negative magnetic anomaly located in the southern sector of the inner ring in the Ries impact structure was carried out in 2006–2007. As the suevite of the Ries crater is known to have an often strong reverse remanent magnetization causing negative magnetic anomalies, a suevite body lying below shallow lake sediments upon the crystalline basement rocks of the inner ring was suspected to be the cause of the anomaly. A drilling program conducted by the Geological Service of Bavaria offered the opportunity to drill a 100-m-deep core hole into this anomaly in 2006. The core stratigraphy involves from 0 to 4.5 m fluviatile Quaternary lake sediments, from 4.5 to 21 m Neogene clays of the Ries crater lake, and from 21 to 100 m suevite and impact melt rock. The suevite and the impact melt rock have a strong reverse remanent magnetization and very high Koenigsberger ratios. Thermomagnetic and coercivity analyses indicate that magnetite is the dominant carrier of the magnetization. The borehole unfortunately did not penetrate the crystalline basement rocks of the inner ring, but modeling of the magnetic source body indicates that the bottom of the hole could not be far from the contact. A macroscopic survey shows suevite from 21 to 87 m, highly diverse in terms of suevite types, and a gradational transition to massive impact melt rock constituting the lowermost 13 m of the drill core. A detailed macroscopic description and first results of microscopic observations reveal that suevite groundmass is substantially altered to secondary phyllosilicates (mostly smectite, minor chlorite) and locally extensive development of calcite. Crystalline basement–derived lithic clasts and minerals dominate the clast population, and only traces of clastic material derived from the upper sediment parts of the target could be recorded. Macroscopically and microscopically, melt fragments have mostly irregular shapes, which lead to the tentative conclusion that only part of the melt—and by implication suevite—mass is derived from fallout of the ejecta curtain. On the other hand, most melt fragments and larger lithic clasts are seemingly oriented subperpendicular to the core axis. This could be interpreted as being due alternatively to settling through air or lateral movement within the actual crater. The gradational zone between proper suevite and massive impact melt rock is characterized by increasing enrichment of melt component and concomitant reduction of suevitic groundmass, until in the uppermost impact melt rock, only millimeter-wide stringers of groundmass remain between densely packed centimeter- to decimeter-size melt fragments.