An impact melt origin for Earth’s oldest known evolved rocks
Tim E. Johnson, Nicholas J. Gardiner, Katarina Miljković, Christopher J. Spencer, Christopher L. Kirkland, Phil A. Bland & Hugh Smithies Nature Geoscience, Aug 13, 2018 LINK PDF “Earth’s oldest evolved (felsic) rocks, the 4.02-billion-year-old Idiwhaa…
Summanen, a new meteorite impact structure in Central FinlandOPEN ACCESS
Jüri Plado, Satu Hietala, Timmu Kreitsmann, Jouni Lerssi, Jari Nenonen, Lauri J. Pesonen Meteorit Planet Sci. doi:10.1111/maps.13134 First published: 25 June 2018 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “The Summanen structure (62°39.0′N, 25°22.5′E) is located within the Paleoproterozoic…
The Meteorite from Steinheim, SW Germany: Probably a Pallasite
Buchner E. *, Hölzel M., Schmieder M., Ferrière L., Koeberl C., Rasser M., Fietzke J., Frische M., Meier M. M. M., Busemann H., Maden C., Kutterolf S. 81st Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society 2018…
Spectroscopic features of ultrahigh-pressure impact glasses of the Kara astroblemeOPEN ACCESS
T. G. Shumilova, V. P. Lutoev, S. I. Isaenko, N. S. Kovalchuk, B. A. Makeev, A. Yu. Lysiuk, A. A. Zubov & K. Ernstson Scientific Reports Volume 8, Article number: 6923 (2018) doi:10.1038/s41598-018-25037-z LINK (OPEN…
The delivery of water by impacts from planetary accretion to presentOPEN ACCESS
R. Terik Daly, Peter H. Schultz Science Advances 25 Apr 2018: Vol. 4, no. 4, eaar2632 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar2632 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Dynamical models and observational evidence indicate that water-rich asteroids and comets…
Projectile preservation during oblique hypervelocity impacts
Daly, R. T. and Schultz, P. H. Meteorit Planet Sci. . doi:10.1111/maps.13081 LINK “Impact angle plays a significant role in determining the fate of the projectile. In this study, we use a suite of hypervelocity…
Towards a theoretical determination of the geographical probability distribution of meteoroid impacts on EarthOPEN ACCESS
Jorge I. Zuluaga, Mario Sucerquia Accepted for publication in MNRAS PDF (OPEN ACCESS) update (15 March 2018 ): LINK “Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impact events occurred inside a geographical area of only 3.4% of the Earth’s…
A new type of highly-vaporized microtektite from the Transantarctic MountainsOPEN ACCESS
M. Van Ginneken, M.J. Genge, R.P. Harvey Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 6 March 2018 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We report on the discovery of microtektites (microscopic impact…
An experimental model for the tektite fluvial transport based on the most distal Polish moldavite occurrences
Brachaniec, T. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.13035 LINK “Reworking and redeposition of tektites is a highly complex and multistage geological process including many factors. A tumbling experiment was therefore undertaken with the aim of…
New clues from Earth’s most elusive impact crater: Evidence of reidite in Australasian tektites from Thailand
Aaron J. Cavosie; Nicholas E. Timms; Timmons M. Erickson; Christian Koeberl Geology (2017) https://doi.org/10.1130/G39711.1 Published:December 20, 2017 LINK “Australasian tektites are enigmatic drops of siliceous impact melt found in an ~8000 × ~13,000 km strewn…
Discovery of a meteoritic ejecta layer containing unmelted impactor fragments at the base of Paleocene lavas, Isle of Skye, ScotlandOPEN ACCESS
Simon M. Drake; Andrew D. Beard; Adrian P. Jones; David J. Brown; A. Dominic Fortes; Ian L. Millar; Andrew Carter;Jergus Baca; Hilary Downes Geology (2017) DOI:https://doi.org/10.1130/G39452.1 Published: December 12, 2017 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN…
Australasian microtektites: Impactor identification using Cr, Co and Ni ratios
L. Folco, B.P. Glass, M. D’Orazio, P. Rochette Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 20 November 2017 LINK “Impactor identification is one of the challenges of large-scale impact cratering studies due…
Anatomy of impactites and shocked zircon grains from Dhala reveals Paleoproterozoic meteorite impact in the Archean basement rocks of Central India
Shan-Shan Li, S. Keerthy, M. Santosh, S.P. Singh, C.D. Deering, M. Satyanarayanan, M.N. Praveen, V. Aneeshkumar, G.K. Indu, Y. Anilkumar, K.S. Sajinkumar Gondwana Research Volume 54, February 2018, Pages 81–101 LINK “Highlights • Geochemistry of…
On the history of the early meteoritic bombardment of the Moon: was there a terminal lunar cataclysm?
Greg Michael, Alexander Basilevsky, Gerhard Neukum Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 4 November 2017 LINK “Highlights • Statistics of 269 K-Ar datings of lunar highland returned samples are reviewed. • These are compared…
Kamenetsk—A new impact structure in the Ukrainian Shield.
Gurov, E., Nikolaenko, N., Shevchuk, H. and Yamnichenko, A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12951 LINK “The Kamenetsk impact structure is a deeply eroded simple crater that formed in crystalline rocks of the Ukrainian Shield….
Combining shock barometry with numerical modeling: Insights into complex crater formation—The example of the Siljan impact structure (Sweden)
Holm-Alwmark, S., Rae, A. S. P., Ferrière, L., Alwmark, C. and Collins, G. S. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12955 LINK “Siljan, central Sweden, is the largest known impact structure in Europe. It was formed…
Meteoritic matter from the Ries and Steinheim impactors?
Schmidt, G., El Goresy, A., Pernicka, E. Paneth Kolloquium Nördlingen (2017), abstract #0070 October 11-13, 2017 PDF “Possible meteoritic matter on the fracture surfaces of shattered belemnites from the rim of the Ries impact crater…
A high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Nördlinger Ries impact crater, Germany, and implications for the accurate dating of terrestrial impact events
Martin Schmieder, Trudi Kennedy, Fred Jourdan, Elmar Buchner, Wolf Uwe Reimold Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 September 2017 LINK “40Ar/39Ar dating of specimens of moldavite, the formation of which…
Impact characteristics of different rocks in a pulsed-laser irradiation experiment: Simulation of micrometeorite bombardment on the Moon
Wu, Yanxue; Li, Xiongyao; Yao, Wenqing; Wang, Shijie Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 122. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JE005220 LINK “Without the protection of the atmosphere, the soils on lunar surfaces undergo a series of optical, physical, and chemical…
Hydrocode modeling of the spallation process during hypervelocity impacts: Implications for the ejection of Martian meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Kosuke Kurosawa, Takaya Okamoto, Hidenori Genda accepted for publication in Icarus PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Hypervelocity ejection of material by impact spallation is considered a plausible mechanism for material exchange between two planetary bodies. We have…
Hydrothermally enhanced magnetization at the center of the Haughton impact structure?
Zylberman, W., Quesnel, Y., Rochette, P., Osinski, G. R., Marion, C. and Gattacceca, J. (2017), Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12917 LINK “Haughton is a ~24 Myr old midsize (apparent diameter 23 km) complex impact…
Morphology of the Morasko crater field (western Poland): Influences of pre-impact topography, meteoroid impact processes, and post-impact alterations
Wojciech Włodarski, Joanna Papis, Witold Szczuciński Geomorphology, Volume 295, 15 October 2017, Pages 586-597 Available online 13 August 2017 LINK “Highlights • New detailed topography of small impact craters in unconsolidated sediments • The craters…
Zhamanshin astrobleme provides evidence for carbonaceous chondrite and post-impact exchange between ejecta and Earth’s atmosphereOPEN ACCESS
Tomáš Magna, Karel Žák, Andreas Pack, Frédéric Moynier, Bérengère Mougel, Stefan Peters, Roman Skála, Šárka Jonášová, Jiří Mizera & Zdeněk Řanda Nature Communications 8, Article number: 227 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00192-5 Published online: 09 August 2017 LINK…
On the Nature of the Ni-rich Component in Splash-form Australasian Tektites
Steven Goderis, Roald Tagle, Jörg Fritz, Rainer Bartoschewitz, Natalia Artemieva Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 9 August 2017 LINK “The Australasian tektite strewn field is exceptional, not only as the…
Implications for behavior of volatile elements during impacts—Zinc and copper systematics in sediments from the Ries impact structure and central European tektites.
Rodovská, Z., Magna, T., Žák, K., Kato, C., Savage, P. S., Moynier, F., Skála, R. and Ježek, J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12922 LINK “Moldavites are tektites genetically related to the Ries impact structure,…
Evidence for a chondritic impactor, evaporation-condensation effects and melting of the Precambrian basement beneath the ‘target’ Deccan basalts at Lonar crater, India
Rahul Das Gupta, Anupam Banerjee, Steven Goderis, Philippe Claeys, Frank Vanhaecke, Ramananda Chakrabarti Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 19 July 2017 LINK “The ∼1.88 km diameter Lonar impact crater formed…
The preservation of the Agoudal impact crater, Morocco, under a landslide: Indication of a genetic link between shatter cones and meteorite fragments
Hassane Nachit, El Hassan Abia, Costanza Bonadiman, Mario Di Martino, Carmela Vaccaro Geomorphology, Volume 295, 15 October 2017, Pages 76-83 Review Article LINK “Geological studies and tomographic profiles of a locality nearby the Agoudal village…
A METEORITE FRAGMENT TRAPPED BETWEEN POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SHATTER CONES IN A LIMESTONE BLOCK STORED AT THE METEORKRATER-MUSEUM STEINHEIM, GERMANY
E. Buchner, M. Hölzel, M. Schmieder, M. Rasser, J. Fietzke, M. Frische, S. Kutterolf 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2017 abstract “A metallic fragment on a shatter cone surface of a shattered limestone…
Atomic-scale age resolution of planetary eventsOPEN ACCESS
L. F. White, J. R. Darling, D. E. Moser, D. A. Reinhard, T. J. Prosa, D. Bullen, D. Olson, D. J. Larson, D. Lawrence & I. Martin Nature Communications 8, Article number: 15597 (2017) doi:10.1038/ncomms15597…
A new high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Rochechouart impact structure: At least 5 Ma older than the Triassic–Jurassic boundaryOPEN ACCESS
Cohen, Benjamin E., Mark, Darren F., Lee, Martin R., Simpson, Sarah L. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 10.1111/maps.12880 Available online 16 May 2017 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Rochechourt impact structure in south-central France,…
Reconstruction of the Morasko meteoroid impact—Insight from numerical modeling.
Bronikowska, M., Artemieva, N. A. and Wünnemann, K. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12882 LINK “The Morasko strewn field located near Poznań, Poland comprises seven impact craters with diameters ranging from 20 to 90 m,…
New insights on petrography and geochemistry of impactites from the Lonar crater, India.
Ray, D., Upadhyay, D., Misra, S., Newsom, H. E. and Ghosh, S. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12881 LINK “The Lonar impact crater, India, is one of the few known terrestrial impact craters excavated in…
The behavior of osmium and other siderophile elements during impacts: Insights from the Ries impact structure and central European tektites
Lukáš Ackerman, Tomáš Magna, Karel Žák, Roman Skála, Šárka Jonášová, Jiří Mizera, Zdeněk Řanda Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 27 April 2017 LINK “Impact processes are natural phenomena that contribute…
Asteroid impact effects and their immediate hazards for human populations
Rumpf, Clemens M., Lewis, Hugh G., Atkinson, Peter M. Geophysical Research Letters 10.1002/2017GL073191 19 April 2017 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) until 19 May 2017 “A set of 50,000 artificial Earth impacting asteroids was used to…
Protracted volcanism after large impacts: evidence from the Sudbury impact basin
Ubide, Teresa; Guyett, Paul C.; Kenny, Gavin G.; O’Sullivan, Edel M.; Ames, Doreen E.; Petrus, Joseph A.; Riggs, Nancy Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets Accepted manuscript online: 20 March 2017 LINK “Morphological studies of large…
Cathodoluminescence of moldavites.
Fritzke, B., Götze, J. and Lange, J.-M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12852 LINK “A systematic study of a large set of moldavites and the application of cathodoluminescence (CL)-spectroscopy with a detailed discussion of spectral…
Coesite in suevite from the Ries impact structure (Germany): From formation to postshock evolution.
Fazio, A., Mansfeld, U. and Langenhorst, F. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12849 LINK “Coesite is one of the most common and abundant high-pressure phases occurring in impactites. The mechanism of formation of coesite and…
Geochemical evidence of an extraterrestrial component in impact melt breccia from the Paleoproterozoic Dhala impact structure, India.
Pati, J. K., Qu, W. J., Koeberl, C., Reimold, W. U., Chakarvorty, M. and Schmitt, R. T. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12826 LINK “The Paleoproterozoic Dhala structure with an estimated diameter of ~11 km…
Complex crater formation: Insights from combining observations of shock pressure distribution with numerical models at the West Clearwater Lake impact structureOPEN ACCESS
Rae, A. S. P., Collins, G. S., Grieve, R. A. F., Osinski, G. R., Morgan, J. V. Meteoritic & Planetary Science doi:10.1111/maps.12825 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Large impact structures have complex morphologies, with…
Meteoritic Component in Melt Rocks from the Boltysh (Ukraine) and Lonar (India) Impact Structures: First Assessment
C. Koeberl, B. Mougel, F. Moynier 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #1331 LINK
Late Eocene 3He and Ir anomalies associated with ordinary chondritic spinelsOPEN ACCESS
Samuele Boschi, Birger Schmitz, Philipp R. Heck, Anders Cronholm, Céline Defouilloy, Noriko T. Kita, Simonetta Monechi, Alessandro Montanari, Surya S. Rout, Fredrik Terfelt Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 3 February…
On critical observations that constrain models of terrestrial hypervelocity impact craters
Michael R. Dence Meteoritics & Planetary Science doi: 10.1111/maps.12822 Version of record online: 2 February 2017 LINK “Impact structures in the crystalline rocks of the Canadian Shield range over two orders of magnitude in size…
Laser-induced melting experiments: Simulation of short-term high-temperature impact processes
Ebert, M.; Hecht, L.; Hamann, C.; Luther, R. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 10.1111/maps.12809 First published: 30 January 2017 LINK “This study introduces an experimental approach using direct laser irradiation to simulate the virtually instantaneous melting…
Petrogenesis of the EET 92023 achondrite and implications for early impact events
A. Yamaguchi, N. Shirai, C. Okamoto and M. Ebihara Meteoritics & Planetary Science 27 JAN 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/maps.12821 LINK “We report petrology and geochemistry of an achondrite EET 92023 and compare it with normal…
A previously unrecognized high-temperature impactite from the Steen River impact structure, Alberta, Canada
E.Walton, A.Hughes, E.MacLagan, C.D.K.Herd, M.Dence Geology DOI: 10.1130/G38556.1 First Published on January 23, 2017 LINK “Here, we report a previously unrecognized impactite from the Steen River impact structure in Alberta, Canada, which was intersected by…
A tale of clusters: No resolvable periodicity in the terrestrial impact cratering recordOPEN ACCESS
Matthias M. M. Meier, Sanna Holm-Alwmark MNRAS (2017) stx211. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx211 Published: 25 January 2017 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) (updated: 1 Feb) LINK “Rampino & Caldeira (2015) carry out a circular spectral analysis (CSA) of the terrestrial…
Rare meteorites common in the Ordovician periodOPEN ACCESS
Philipp R. Heck, Birger Schmitz, William F. Bottke, Surya S. Rout, Noriko T. Kita, Anders Cronholm, Céline Defouilloy, Andrei Dronov & Fredrik Terfelt Nature Astronomy 1 Article number: 0035 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41550-016-0035 Published online: 23 January…
Chromium isotope evidence in ejecta deposits for the nature of Paleoproterozoic impactorsOPEN ACCESS
Berengere Mougel, Frederic Moynier, Christa Gopel, Christian Koeberl PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “Non-mass dependent chromium isotopic signatures have been successfully used to determine the presence and identification of extra-terrestrial materials in terrestrial impact rocks. Paleoproterozoic…
Formation of Apollo 16 impactites and the composition of late accreted material: constraints from Os isotopes, highly siderophile elements and sulfur abundances
Philipp Gleißner, Harry Becker Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 18 December 2016 LINK “Fe-Ni metal-schreibersite-troilite intergrowths in Apollo 16 impact melt rocks and new highly siderophile element (HSE) and S…
Evidence for a spatially extensive hydrothermal system at the Ries impact structure, Germany.
Sapers, H. M., Osinski, G. R., Flemming, R. L., Buitenhuis, E., Banerjee, N. R., Tornabene, L. L., Blain, S. and Hainge, J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12796 LINK “The ~15 Ma, 26 km diameter…
The formation of peak rings in large impact craters
Joanna V. Morgan, Sean P. S. Gulick, Timothy Bralower, Elise Chenot, Gail Christeson, Philippe Claeys, Charles Cockell, Gareth S. Collins, Marco J. L. Coolen, Ludovic Ferrière, Catalina Gebhardt, Kazuhisa Goto, Heather Jones, David A. Kring,…
An unusual occurrence of coesite at the Lonar crater, India.
Jaret, S. J., Phillips, B. L., King, D. T., Glotch, T. D., Rahman, Z. and Wright, S. P. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12745 LINK “Coesite has been identified within ejected blocks of shocked basalt…
The Lawn Hill annulus: An Ordovician meteorite impact into water-saturated dolomite.
Darlington, V., Blenkinsop, T., Dirks, P., Salisbury, J. and Tomkins, A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12734 First published: 21 October 2016 LINK “The Lawn Hill Impact Structure (LHIS) is located 250 km N of…
Impact ejecta at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary
Morgan F. Schaller, Megan K. Fung, James D. Wright, Miriam E. Katz, Dennis V. Kent Science 14 Oct 2016: Vol. 354, Issue 6309, pp. 225-229 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf5466 LINK “Extraterrestrial impacts have left a substantial imprint…
Strontium and neodymium isotope systematics of target rocks and impactites from the El’gygytgyn impact structure: Linking impactites and target rocks.
Wegner, W. and Koeberl, C. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12731 LINK “The 3.6 Ma El’gygytgyn structure, located in northeastern Russia on the Chukotka Peninsula, is an 18 km diameter complex impact structure. The bedrock…
The “suevite” conundrum, Part 1: The Ries suevite and Sudbury Onaping Formation compared.
Osinski, G. R., Grieve, R. A. F., Chanou, A. and Sapers, H. M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12728 LINK “The term “suevite” has been applied to various impact melt-bearing breccias found in different stratigraphic…
Morphological changes of olivine grains reacted with amino acid solutions by impact process
Yuhei Umeda, Atsushi Takase, Nao Fukunaga, Toshimori Sekine, Takamichi Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Takeshi Kakegawa Physics and Chemistry of Minerals First Online:04 October 2016 DOI: 10.1007/s00269-016-0849-y LINK “Early oceans on Earth might have contained certain amounts…
The fate of moderately volatile elements in impact events—Lithium connection between the Ries sediments and central European tektites.
Rodovská, Z., Magna, T., Žák, K., Skála, R., Brachaniec, T. and Visscher, C. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12733 Version of Record online: 3 OCT 2016 LINK “Lithium abundances and isotope compositions are presented for…
Survival of the impactor during hypervelocity collisions II: An analogue for high porosity targets.OPEN ACCESS
C. Avdellidou, M.C. Price, M. Delbo, and M.J. Cole MNRAS doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2381 First published online September 16, 2016 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We investigated how a target’s porosity affects the outcome of a collision, with respect…
Hyperspectral mapping of alteration assemblages within a hydrothermal vug at the Haughton impact structure, Canada.
Greenberger, R. N., Mustard, J. F., Osinski, G. R., Tornabene, L. L., Pontefract, A. J., Marion, C. L., Flemming, R. L., Wilson, J. H. and Cloutis, E. A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12716 LINK
Cratering on Ceres: Implications for its crust and evolution
By H. Hiesinger, S. Marchi, N. Schmedemann, P. Schenk, J. H. Pasckert, A. Neesemann, D. P. O’Brien, T. Kneissl, A. I. Ermakov, R. R. Fu, M. T. Bland, A. Nathues, T. Platz, D. A. Williams,…
Diachroneity of the Clearwater West and Clearwater East impact structures indicated by the (U–Th)/He dating method
M.B. Biren, M.C. van Soest, J.-A. Wartho, K.V. Hodges, J.G. Spray Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 453, 1 November 2016, Pages 56–66 LINK “Highlights • We dated the Clearwater Lake impact craters (Canada) via…
Lead isotope evidence for a young formation age of the Earth–Moon systemOPEN ACCESS
J.N. Connelly, M. Bizzarro Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 452, 15 October 2016, Pages 36-43 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • We use Pb isotopes to constrain the timing of the Moon-forming giant impact. •…
Distinction between amorphous and healed planar deformation features in shocked quartz using composite color scanning electron microscope cathodoluminescence (SEM-CL) imagingOPEN ACCESS
Hamers, M. F., Pennock, G. M., Herwegh, M. and Drury, M. R. Meteorit Planet Sci. doi:10.1111/maps.12711 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Planar deformation features (PDFs) in quartz are one of the most reliable and most widely used…
Subsurface deformation in hypervelocity cratering experiments into high-porosity tuffs.
Winkler, R., Poelchau, M. H., Moser, S. and Kenkmann, T. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12694 LINK “Hypervelocity impact experiments on porous tuff targets were carried out to determine the effect of porosity on deformation…
Interaction of aluminum projectiles with quartz sand in impact experiments: formation of khatyrkite (CuAl2) and reduction of SiO2 to Si
Christopher Hamann, Dieter Stöffler, Wolf Uwe Reimold Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 27 July 2016 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.07.018 LINK “We analyzed the interaction of spherical, 6.36-mm-diameter, Cu-bearing aluminum projectiles with quartz sand…
Excess of L-alanine in amino acids synthesized in a plasma torch generated by a hypervelocity meteorite impact reproduced in the laboratory
George G. Managadze, Michael H. Engel, Stephanie Getty, Peter Wurz, William B. Brinckerhoff, Anatoly G. Shokolov, Gennady V. Sholin, Sergey A. Terent’ev, Alexander E. Chumikov, Alexander S. Skalkin, Vladimir D. Blank, Vyacheslav M. Prokhorov, Nina…
The missing large impact craters on CeresOPEN ACCESS
S. Marchi, A. I. Ermakov, C. A. Raymond, R. R. Fu, D. P. O’Brien, M. T. Bland, E. Ammannito, M. C. De Sanctis, T. Bowling, P. Schenk, J. E. C. Scully, D. L. Buczkowski, D….
Olivine on Vesta as exogenous contaminants brought by impacts: Constraints from modeling Vesta’s collisional history and from impact simulationsOPEN ACCESS
D. Turrini, V. Svetsov, G. Consolmagno, S. Sirono, S. Pirani PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 25 July 2016 LINK “Highlights • The Dawn mission revealed the presence of olivine on…
Shatter cones at the Keurusselkä impact structure and their relation to local jointing.
Hasch, M., Reimold, W. U., Raschke, U. and Zaag, P. T. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12676 LINK “Shatter cones are the only distinct meso- to macroscopic recognition criterion for impact structures, yet not all…
Secondary submicrometer impact cratering on the surface of asteroid 25143 Itokawa
Dennis Harries, Shogo Yakame, Yuzuru Karouji, Masayuki Uesugi, Falko Langenhorst Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 450, 15 September 2016, Pages 337-345 Available online 12 July 2016 LINK “Highlights • Submicrometer impact craters on RA-QD02-0265…
Geochemistry of impact glasses and target rocks from the Zhamanshin Impact Structure, Kazakhstan: Implications for mixing of target and impactor matter
Šárka Jonášová, Lukáš Ackerman, Karel Žák, Roman Skála, Jana Ďurišová, Alexander Deutsch, Tomáš Magna Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 27 June 2016 LINK
Mid-Infrared Bi-directional Reflectance Spectroscopy of Impact Melt Glasses and Tektites
Andreas Morlok, Aleksandra Stojic, Iris Weber, Harald Hiesinger, Michael Zanetti, Joern Helbert Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 22 June 2016 LINK “We have analyzed 14 impact melt glass samples, covering the compositional range…
The Kamil Crater (Egypt): A Type Structure for Small Impact Craters on Earth
Folco L. * D’Orazio M. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6427 LINK
On the Nature of the Impactor That Formed the Shackleton Crater on the Moon
Svetlana G. Pugacheva, Ekaterina A. Feoktistova Earth, Moon, and Planets pp 1-24, 10.1007/s11038-016-9489-y First online: 14 June 2016 LINK “The present paper attempts to assess the characteristics of the impactor that formed the Shackleton crater,…
Shock synthesis of quasicrystals with implications for their origin in asteroid collisions
Paul D. Asimow, Chaney Lin, Luca Bindi, Chi Ma, Oliver Tschauner, Lincoln S. Hollister, and Paul J. Steinhardt PNAS2016 ; published ahead of print June 13, 2016, doi:10.1073/pnas.1600321113 LINK “Significance The singular occurrence, to date,…
The Agoudal (High Atlas Mountains, Morocco) shatter cone conundrum: A recent meteorite fall onto the remnant of an impact site
Chennaoui Aoudjehane, H., El Kerni, H., Reimold, W. U., Baratoux, D., Koeberl, C., Bouley, S. and Aoudjehane, M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12661 LINK “Associations between impact structures and meteorite occurrences are rare and…
The Cretaceous/Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary at the J Anomaly Ridge, Newfoundland (IODP Expedition 342, Hole U1403B).
Loroch, D., Deutsch, A., Berndt, J. and Bornemann, A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12667 LINK “We present results of an in-situ geochemical study using laser-ablation inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analyses along a ~4.3…
Target rocks, impact glasses, and melt rocks from the Lonar crater, India: Highly siderophile element systematics and Sr-Nd-Os isotopic signatures.
Schulz, T., Luguet, A., Wegner, W., van Acken, D. and Koeberl, C. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12665 LINK “The Lonar crater is a ~0.57-Myr-old impact structure located in the Deccan Traps of the Indian…
Macrofossil evidence for a rapid and severe Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction in AntarcticaOPEN ACCESS
James D. Witts, Rowan J. Whittle, Paul B. Wignall, J. Alistair Crame, Jane E. Francis, Robert J. Newton, Vanessa C. Bowman Nature Communications 7, Article number:11738 doi:10.1038/ncomms11738 Published 26 May 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Debate…
Differentiated planetesimal impacts into a terrestrial magma ocean: Fate of the iron core
Jordan D. Kendall, H.J. Melosh Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 448, 15 August 2016, Pages 24–33 LINK “The abundance of moderately siderophile elements (“iron-loving”; e.g. Co, Ni) in the Earth’s mantle is 10 to…
A study of the observed shift in the peak position of olivine Raman spectra as a result of shock induced by hypervelocity impacts.
Harriss, K. H. and Burchell, M. J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12660 LINK “Kuebler et al. (2006) identified variations in olivine Raman spectra based on the composition of individual olivine grains, leading to identification…
Differentiated impact melt sheets may be a potential source of Hadean detrital zircon
Gavin G. Kenny, Martin J. Whitehouse, Balz S. Kamber Geology DOI: 10.1130/G37898.1 First Published on April 28, 2016 LINK “Constraining the origin and history of very ancient detrital zircons has unique potential for furthering our…
Peculiarities in the formation of complex organic compounds in a nitrogen–methane atmosphere during hypervelocity impacts
M. A. Zaitsev , M. V. Gerasimov, E. N. Safonova, A. S. Vasiljeva Solar System Research March 2016, Volume 50, Issue 2, pp 113-129 First online: 12 April 2016 LINK “Results of the experiments on…
Chemostratigraphy of the Sudbury impact basin fill: volatile metal loss and post-impact evolution of a submarine impact basin
Edel M. O’Sullivan, Robbie Goodhue, Doreen E. Ames, Balz S. Kamber Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 8 April 2016 LINK “The 1.85 Ga Sudbury structure provides a unique opportunity to…
The oxidation state and mass of the Moon-forming impactor
Jon Wade , Bernard J. Wood Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 442, 15 May 2016, Pages 186–193 LINK (open access) “Physical simulations of the origin of the Moon have, until recently, centred on impact,…
Coesite in suevites from the Chesapeake Bay impact structure.
Jackson, J. C., Horton, J. W., Chou, I.-M. and Belkin, H. E. (2016), Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12638 LINK “The occurrence of coesite in suevites from the Chesapeake Bay impact structure is confirmed within…
The two Suvasvesi impact structures, Finland: Argon isotopic evidence for a “false” impact crater doublet.
Schmieder, M., Schwarz, W. H., Trieloff, M., Buchner, E., Hopp, J., Tohver, E., Pesonen, L. J., Lehtinen, M., Moilanen, J., Werner, S. C. and Öhman, T. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12636 LINK “The two…
Dating a small impact crater: An age of Kaali crater (Estonia) based on charcoal emplaced within proximal ejecta.
Losiak, A., Wild, E. M., Geppert, W. D., Huber, M. S., Jõeleht, A., Kriiska, A., Kulkov, A., Paavel, K., Pirkovic, I., Plado, J., Steier, P., Välja, R., Wilk, J., Wisniowski, T. and Zanetti, M. Meteoritics…
Nanosecond formation of diamond and lonsdaleite by shock compression of graphite
D. Kraus, A. Ravasio, M. Gauthier, D. O. Gericke, J. Vorberger, S. Frydrych, J. Helfrich, L. B. Fletcher, G. Schaumann, B. Nagler, B. Barbrel, B. Bachmann, E. J. Gamboa, S. Göde, E. Granados, G. Gregori,…
WIP: A Web-based program for indexing planar features in quartz grains and its usage.
Losiak, A., Golebiowska, I., Ferrière, L., Wojciechowski, J., Huber, M. S. and Koeberl, C. Meteoritics & Planetary Science Article first published online: 4 MAR 2016 DOI: 10.1111/maps.12614 LINK “Planar deformation features (PDFs) in quartz are…
Frictional melting processes and the generation of shock veins in terrestrial impact structures: evidence from the Steen River impact structure, Alberta, Canada
Erin L. Walton, Thomas G. Sharp, Jinping Hu Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.02.024 LINK
Spherule layers, crater scaling laws, and the population of ancient terrestrial impactors
Brandon C. Johnson, Gareth S. Collins, David A. Minton, Timothy J. Bowling, Bruce M. Simonson, Maria T. Zuber Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 19 February 2016 LINK “Ancient layers of impact spherules provide…
Target-projectile interaction during impact melting at Kamil Crater, Egypt
Agnese Fazio, Massimo D’Orazio, Carole Cordier, Luigi Folco Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 15 February 2016 LINK “In small meteorite impacts, the projectile may survive through fragmentation; in addition, it…
A meteorite perspective on asteroid hazard mitigation
Derek W.G. Sears, Hazel Sears, Daniel R. Ostrowski, Kathryne L. Bryson, Jessie Dotson, Megan Syal, Damian C Swift Planetary and Space Science Review article In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 10 February 2016 doi:10.1016/j.pss.2016.01.016 LINK…
Coeval ages of Australasian, Central American and Western Canadian tektites reveal multiple impacts 790 ka ago
Winfried H. Schwarz, Mario Trieloff, Klemens Bollinger, Niklas Gantert, Vera A. Fernandes, Hans-Peter Meyer, Hal Povenmire, Elmar K. Jessberger, Massimo Guglielmino, Christian Koeberl Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 3 February…
Chemistry of Tertiary sediments in the surroundings of the Ries impact structure and moldavite formation revisited
Karel Žák, Roman Skála, Zdeněk Řanda, Jiří Mizera, Kurt Heissig, Lukáš Ackerman, Jana Ďurišová, Šárka Jonášová, Jan Kameník, Tomáš Magna Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 2 February 2016 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.01.025 LINK
Petrographic and geochemical characterization of the granitic rocks of the Araguainha impact crater, Brazil
Dailto Silva, Cristiano Lana and Carlos Roberto de Souza Filho Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Article first published online: 27 JAN 2016 DOI: 10.1111/maps.12601 LINK “Petrographic and geochemical data obtained on the Araguainha impact crater (Goiás/Mato…
Survival of the impactor during hypervelocity collisions I: An analogue for low porosity targets
C. Avdellidou, M.C. Price, M. Delbo, P. Ioannidis, M.J. Cole PDF (full text) abstract “Recent observations of asteroidal surfaces indicate the presence of materials that do not match the bulk lithology of the body. A…
Phosphate ages in Apollo 14 breccias: Resolving multiple impact events with high precision U–Pb SIMS analyses
J.F. Snape, A.A. Nemchin, M.L. Grange, J.J. Bellucci, F. Thiessen, M.J. Whitehouse Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Volume 174, 1 February 2016, Pages 13–29 LINK “The U–Pb systems of apatite and merrillite grains within four separate…
A comprehensive study of noble gases and nitrogen in Hypatia, a diamond-rich pebble from SW Egypt
Guillaume Avice, Matthias M. M. Meier, Bernard Marty, Rainer Wieler, Jan D. Kramers, Falko Langenhorst, Pierre Cartigny, Colin Maden, Laurent Zimmermann, Marco A. G. Andreoli Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2015) pp. 243-253 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.10.013 arXiv:1510.06594…
Mid-Infrared spectroscopy of impactites from the Nördlinger Ries impact crater
Andreas Morlok, Aleksandra Stojic, Isabelle Dittmar, Harald Hiesinger, Manuel Ahmedi, Martin Sohn, Iris Weber, Joern Helbert Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 20 October 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.10.003 LINK
A terrestrial perspective on using ex situ shocked zircons to date lunar impacts
Aaron J. Cavosie, Timmons M. Erickson, Nicholas E. Timms, Steven M. Reddy, Cristina Talavera, Stephanie D. Montalvo, Maya R. Pincus, Ryan J. Gibbon, and Desmond Moser Geology, First published on October 1, 2015, doi:10.1130/G37059.1 LINK
Cathodoluminescence as a tool to discriminate impact melt, shocked and unshocked volcanics: A case study of samples from the El’gygytgyn impact structure
Pittarello, L., Roszjar, J., Mader, D., Debaille, V., Claeys, P. and Koeberl, C. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12559Article first published online: 15 OCT 2015 LINK “El’gygytgyn (Chukotka, Arctic Russia) is a well-preserved impact structure,…
Saqqar: A 34 km diameter impact structure in Saudi Arabia.
Kenkmann, T., Afifi, A. M., Stewart, S. A., Poelchau, M. H., Cook, D. J. and Neville, A. S. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12555 Article first published online: 15 OCT 2015 LINK “Here we present…
Predictions for impactor contamination on Ceres based on hypervelocity impact experiments
R. Terik Daly and Peter H. Schultz Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL065601 Article first published online: 13 OCT 2015 LINK “New experiments predict that Ceres should be extensively contaminated with meteoritic debris derived from the…
Fragment shapes in impact experiments ranging from cratering to catastrophic disruption
T. Michikami, A. Hagermann, T. Kadokawa, A. Yoshida, A. Shimada, S. Hasegawa, A. Tsuchiyama Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 8 October 2015 LINK (full text)
State shift in Deccan volcanism at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, possibly induced by impact
Paul R. Renne, Courtney J. Sprain, Mark A. Richards, Stephen Self, Loÿc Vanderkluysen, Kanchan Pande Science 2 October 2015: Vol. 350 no. 6256 pp. 76-78 DOI: 10.1126/science.aac7549 LINK Materials/Methods, Supplementary Text, Tables, Figures, and/or References…
The Stac Fada impact ejecta deposit and the Lairg Gravity Low: evidence for a buried Precambrian impact crater in Scotland?
Michael J. Simms Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association Volume 126, Issue 6, December 2015, Pages 742–761 Available online 2 October 2015 LINK “The Stac Fada Member, an impact ejecta deposit within the Mesoproterozoic Stoer Group,…
Indigenous nitrogen in the Moon: Constraints from coupled nitrogen–noble gas analyses of mare basalts
Evelyn Füri, Peter H. Barry, Lawrence A. Taylor, Bernard Marty Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 431, 1 December 2015, Pages 195–205 LINK
Comment on ”John’s stone: A possible fragment of the 1908 Tunguska meteorite” (Anfinogenov et al., 2014, Icarus 243, 139-147)
Henning Haack, Richard C. Greenwood, Henner Busemann Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 25 September 2015 LINK “… Consistent with the O study, the noble gases do not provide any evidence for an extraterrestrial…
The meteorite impact-induced tsunami hazard
K. Wünnemann, R. Weiss Philosophical Transactions Published by the Royal Society 28 October 2015; volume 373, issue 2053 Review article, published 21 September 2015.DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0381 LINK “When a cosmic object strikes the Earth, it most…
Water delivery to the Moon by asteroidal and cometary impacts
V.V. Svetsov, V.V. Shuvalov Planetary and Space Science In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 16 September 2015 doi:10.1016/j.pss.2015.09.011 LINK “Recent spacecraft missions detected presence of hydroxyl or water over large areas on the lunar surface….
Preservation and detectability of shock-induced magnetization
Tikoo, S. M., J. Gattacceca, N. L. Swanson-Hysell, B. P. Weiss, C. Suavet, and C. Cournède J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 120, doi:10.1002/2015JE004840 First published: 15 September 2015 LINK
Two new discovery of parautochthonous moldavites in southwestern Poland, Central Europe
Brachaniec, T., Szopa, K. and Karwowski, Ł. (2015), Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12504 LINK
Ejecta velocity distribution of impact craters formed on quartz sand: Effect of projectile density on crater scaling law
Sayaka Tsujido, Masahiko Arakawa, Ayako I. Suzuki, Minami Yasui Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 2 September 2015 LINK
Precambrian reidite discovered in shocked zircon from the Stac Fada impactite, Scotland
Geology, G37066.1, first published on August 21, 2015 doi: 10.1130/G37066.1 LINK Curtis University – media release (Sept. 1, 2015): Breakthrough mineral discovery points to ancient meteorite impacts Terrestrial impact events have had a profound influence…
Delivering a Projectile Component to the Vestan Regolith
R. Terik Daly, Peter H. Schultz Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 1 September 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.034 LINK Dark material on Vesta may consist of carbonaceous chondrite-like material delivered by impact events. This study uses…
Globally unique double crater identified in Sweden / Världsunik dubbelkrater identifierad i Sverige
LINK (English) LINK (press release, Erik Sturkell, Göteborgs universitet (gvc.gu.se) August 31, 2015) “Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have found traces of two enormous meteorite impacts in the Swedish county of Jämtland, a twin…
Potential for impact glass to preserve microbial metabolism
Haley M. Sapers, Neil R. Banerjee, Gordon R. Osinski Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 430, 15 November 2015, Pages 95–104 LINK
Shock effects in plagioclase feldspar from the Mistastin Lake impact structure, Canada
Annemarie E. Pickersgill, Gordon R. Osinski and Roberta L. Flemming Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12495 Article first published online: 18 AUG 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/maps.12495 LINK
The Basal Onaping Intrusion in the North Range: Roof rocks of the Sudbury Igneous Complex
Denise Anders, Gordon R. Osinski, Richard A. F. Grieve and Derek T. M. Brillinger Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12497 Article first published online: 18 AUG 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/maps.12497 LINK
Nucleobase and amino acid formation through impacts of meteorites on the early ocean
Yoshihiro Furukawa, Hiromoto Nakazawa, Toshimori Sekine, Takamichi Kobayashi, Takeshi Kakegawa Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 16 August 2015 LINK
Bayesian chronological analyses consistent with synchronous age of 12,835–12,735 Cal B.P. for Younger Dryas boundary on four continents
James P. Kennett, Douglas J. Kennett, Brendan J. Culleton, J. Emili Aura Tortosa, James L. Bischoff, Ted E. Bunch, I. Randolph Daniel Jr., Jon M. Erlandson, David Ferraro, Richard B. Firestone, Albert C. Goodyear, Isabel…
