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Shatter cone
About: Shatter cone is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 78 publications have been published within this topic receiving 3101 citations.
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1 Jan 1998TL;DR: In this article, a handbook of shock-metamorphic effects in Terrestrial Meteorite Impact Structures emphasizes terrestrial impact structures, field geology, and particularly the recognition and petrographic study of shockmetric effects in terrestrial rocks.
Abstract: This handbook of Shock-Metamorphic Effects in Terrestrial Meteorite Impact Structures emphasizes terrestrial impact structures, field geology, and particularly the recognition and petrographic study of shock-metamorphic effects in terrestrial rocks. Individual chapters include: 1) Landscapes with Craters: Meteorite Impacts, Earth, and the Solar System; 2) Target Earth: Present, Past and Future; 3) Formation of Impact Craters; 4) Shock-Metamorphic Effects in Rocks and Minerals; 5) Shock-Metamorphosed Rocks (Impactities) in Impact Structures; 6) Impact Melts; 7) How to Find Impact Structures; and 8) What Next? Current Problems and Future Investigations.
827 citations
TL;DR: A detailed review of the impact detection methods can be found in this article, with the best diagnostic indicators for shock metamorphism being features that can be studied easily by using the polarizing microscope, such as planar microdeformation features (PFs), isotropization (e.g., formation of diaplectic glasses), and phase changes (high pressure phases; melting).
556 citations
TL;DR: This work presents a comprehensive review of confirmed, proposed (possible) and disproven impact structures in Africa.
149 citations
TL;DR: The Vredefort Dome represents the uplift centre of a well known 2.00 Ga old impact structure of unusually large magnitude as mentioned in this paper, which was poorly documented up to now.
134 citations
TL;DR: Shatter cones (striated percussion fracture cones), apparently formed by explosive percussion, are known only from four cryptoexplosion structures, viz., Steinheim Basin, Wells Creek Basin, the Kentland deformation, and the Crooked Creek structure as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Shatter cones (striated percussion fracture cones), apparently formed by explosive percussion, are known only from four cryptoexplosion (i.e., "cryptovolcanic") structures, viz., Steinheim Basin, Wells Creek Basin, the Kentland deformation, and the Crooked Creek structure. The nature of these shatter cones and their orientation at these four localities are described. It is concluded that the shatter cones may be a useful criterion for establishing that cryptoexplosion structures of the damped-wave type are probably formed by the hypervelocity and explosive impact of large meteorites. In any event, it is hoped that this paper will draw attention to these unusual structures so that geologists will be on the lookout for them in small, highly deformed, circular structures.
131 citations
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| 2019 | 3 |
| 2018 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2 |
| 2016 | 8 |
| 2015 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2 |