Publication Date:
2019-07-20
Description:
Barringer Meteorite Crater (a.k.a. Meteor Crater), Arizona, is one of the youngest and best preserved impact craters on Earth. For that rea-son, it provides a baseline for similar craters formed in the geologic past, formed elsewhere in the Solar Sys-tem, and illuminates the astronomical and geological processes that produce them. The crater has not, how-ever, escaped erosion completely. While Shoemaker [1] mapped a breccia with fallback components inside the crater, he did not locate it beyond the crater rim. He only found remnants of that type of debris in re-worked alluvium [1; see also 2]. Fallback breccia and any base-surge deposits have, thus, been missing components in studies of material ejected beyond the transient crater rim.
Keywords:
Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration; Geophysics
Type:
JSC-E-DAA-TN64830
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2019 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC); Mar 18, 2019 - Mar 22, 2019; Woodlands, TX; United States
Format:
application/pdf
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