Genesis of the mafic granophyre of the Vredefort impact structure (South Africa): Implications of new geochemical and Se and Re-Os isotope data
*corresponding author: wolf.uwer@gmail.com
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Published:August 02, 2021
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Wolf Uwe Reimold*, Toni Schulz, Stephan König, Christian Koeberl, Natalia Hauser, Dschamilja Wannek, Ralf-Thomas Schmitt, 2021. "Genesis of the mafic granophyre of the Vredefort impact structure (South Africa): Implications of new geochemical and Se and Re-Os isotope data", Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI, Wolf Uwe Reimold, Christian Koeberl
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This contribution is concerned with the debated origin of the impact melt rock in the central uplift of the world’s largest confirmed impact structure—Vredefort (South Africa). New major- and trace-element abundances, including those of selected highly siderophile elements (HSEs), Re-Os isotope data, as well as the first Se isotope and Se-Te elemental systematics are presented for the felsic and mafic varieties of Vredefort impact melt rock known as “Vredefort Granophyre.” In addition to the long-recognized “normal” (i.e., felsic, >66 wt% SiO2) granophyre variety, a more mafic (<66 wt% SiO2) impact melt variety from Vredefort has...
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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.
GeoRef
- Africa
- chemical composition
- felsic composition
- Free State South Africa
- Gauteng South Africa
- granophyre
- igneous rocks
- impact craters
- impact features
- Johannesburg South Africa
- mafic composition
- major elements
- melts
- metals
- platinum group
- Re/Os
- selenium
- South Africa
- Southern Africa
- spectra
- trace elements
- Vredefort Dome
- X-ray fluorescence spectra