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Coesite from
Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada


Locality type:Impact Crater
Classification
Species:Coesite
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Coesite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1611420
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1611420:7
GUID (UUID V4):ec9c9108-da74-49bb-8ad2-9208bad22542
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
shock-metamorphosed crystalline rocks, Haughton impact structure, Canada Alaura C. SINGLETON1*, Gordon R. OSINSKI1...Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St., London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University...Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St., London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 * Corresponding author. E-mail: asingle2@uwo...basement material from the Haughton impact structure on Devon Island, Arctic Canada. Shock levels were assigned...classification schemes proved to incompletely describe the Haughton samples so a modified shock classification system
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
overview and cratering model for the Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic Gordon R...Route de l’Aeroport, Saint-Hubert, QC J3Y 8Y9, Canada and Space Science Centre, Department of Geology...Brunswick, 2 Bailey Drive, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada 3Mars Institute, SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research...accepted 11 November 2005) Abstract–The Haughton impact structure has been the focus of systematic, multi-disciplinary...sequence at the time of impact to ∼1880 m. New 40Ar–39Ar dates place the impact event at ∼39 Ma, in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
http://meteoritics.org Impact metamorphism of CaCO3-bearing sandstones at the Haughton structure, Canada Gordon R....Route de l’Aeroport, Saint-Hubert, Quebec, J3Y 8Y9, Canada Present address: Department of Earth Sciences and...Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada E-mail: gosinski@uwo.ca (Received 16 October 2006;...2007) Abstract–Impact-metamorphosed CaCO3-bearing sandstones at the Haughton structure have been divided...intergrowths of quartz, diaplectic glass, and coesite. Textural evidence, such as the intermingling of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
http://meteoritics.org Re-evaluating the age of the Haughton impact event Sarah C. SHERLOCK1*, Simon P. KELLEY1...Route de l’Aeroport, Saint-Hubert, QC J3Y 8Y9, Canada 6Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical...the published age information for the Haughton impact structure, which was believed to have formed ∼23...context. We have found that the age of the Haughton impact structure is ∼39 Ma, which has implications for...for both crater recolonization models and post-impact hydrothermal activity. Future work on the relationship
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam 207 [uc] Impact-induced phase transformations at 50-60 GPa in continental...allochthonous polymict breccia of the 23 Ma old Haughton impact crater were studied by optical microscopy,...implications for post-shock thermal regimes and impact age dating. In the gneiss fragments, the original...about 3% Al and K and traces of Fe and Mg, (3) a region with AJ/Si = l, which does not correspond to any...shocked biotite, (2) a-quartz, cristobalite, and coesite in shocked quartz, (3) an unknown polymorph of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1988. Printed in USA The Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island, Canada: Setting and History of Investigations...BLYTH ROBERTSON Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ont. KIA OY3, Canada (Received 1 August 1988; accepted...discovery of shock metamorphism in clasts of an impact breccia, shatter cones in outcrops of uplifted... confirmed a meteorite impact origin for the Haughton structure, Devon Island. Results of three field...significance. As a result, in 1984 the HISS (Haughton Impact Structure Studies) group carried out a program of
Report (issue)
31.44 65.92 1.25 0.06 0.09 0.01 0.09 98.86 (1) Impact ejecta layer, USA continental shelf; average of...Epitaxially oriented in shock-metamorphosed zircons in an impact ejecta layer in marine sediment on the upper continental...detrital in clastic sedimentary rocks. Association: Impact glass (tektites), shocked quartz and feldspar with...multiple sets of planar deformation features, coesite, stishovite. Distribution: From the USA upper continental...Cliff. From numerous impact structures, including the Woodleigh impact structure (Western Australia);
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sedimentary Target Rocks at the Haughton Impact Crater, Devon Island, Canada A. METZLER, R. OSTERTAG,' H...central polymict breccia formation of Haughton impact crater, Canada, have been studied microscopically...conclude that vaporization and melting due to the Haughton impact affected the lower section ofthe sedimentary...possible. INTRODUCTION THE HAUGHTON IMPACT STRUCTURE, Devon Island, Canada, is a complex crater with a...the regional geology of the Haughton area and the Haughton impact structure (Frisch and Thorsteinsson,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mapping of impact-exposed subsurface lithologies at the Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Canadian...Chapman Space Centre, Longueuil, Quebec J3Y 8Y9, Canada 3Mars Institute, SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research...infrared (TIR) spectroscopic observations to map impact-exposed subsurface lithologies and stratigraphy...of the 23 km diameter Haughton impact structure (Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada) were mapped as distinct...compositions agree with the lithologic units and the pre-impact stratigraphic sequence as mapped during recent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Polymict Breccia Layer of the Haughton Impact Crater, Devon Island, Canada H.-J. REDEKER AND D. STOFFLER...allochthonous polymict breccia ofthe Haughton impact structure is up to about 90 m thick and as much...800 m) and that the total depth of excavation at Haughton is in the order of 2000 m. The mixing of sedimentary...estimates of the energy and crater geometry of the Haughton impact confirms the observed maximum depth of excavation...of the structure below the excavation cavity. INTRODUCTION THE HAUGHTON IMPACT STRUCTURE, Devon Island
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metamorphism in Sillimanite from the Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island, Canada P. Blyth Robertson 1 and A...Physics Branch, Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Canada, K1A OY3 2 Central Laboratories and Technical Services...Division, Geological Survey of Canada, Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Canada, K1A OE8 Abstract. Clasts...fraction of the allochthonous breccia at the Haughton impact structure. Refractive indices of the diaplectic...temperatures produced by hypervelocity meteorite impact has been only partially defined (Sttffler 1970
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Meteoritical Society, 1988. Printed in USA The Haughton Impact Structure: Summary and Synthesis of the Results...Geophysics Division, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa KIA OY3, Canada (Received 11 April 1988; accepted in...structural studies undertaken under the Haughton impact structure study (HISS) project indicate that the...the 23 Ma-old Haughton impact structure, (Devon Island, Canadian Arctic) consists ofa central basin of...peak of uplifted bedrock at Haughton but studies of the post-impact Haughton Formation suggest that the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rb-Sr in naturally shocked rocks; the Haughton Impact Structure, Canada URS SCHARER”* and ALEX DEUTSCH* ’...Monttial, C.P. 8888, Succ. A, Montrial, Qu&ec, Canada H3C 3P8 * Institut ftir Planetologie, Universitgt...breccia of the 23-Ma-old Haughton impact crater on Devon Island (Arctic Canada) were analysed for U-Pb...product of time integrated Pb-diffusion prior to the impact event, which occurred 23 Ma ago. This constrains...patterns are not a reliable chronometer to date impact events. Small rock fragments and a coherent block
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
eddmeteor Impact-induced hydrothermal activity within the Haughton impact structure, arctic Canada: Generation...Bailey Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B SA3,Canada 2SETI Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett...was created by the interaction of water with hot, impact-generated rocks following formation of the 24 km...km diameter, 23 Ma Haughton impact structure. Hydrothermal alteration is recognized in two settings:...settings: within polymict impact breccias overlying the central portion of the structure, and within localized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada *Corresponding author. E-mail: g.collins@imperial...revision accepted 21 October 2008) Abstract–Large impact crater formation is an important geologic process...not fully understood. The current paradigm for impact crater formation is based on models and observations...Germany; Haughton, Canada; and El’gygytgyn, Russia. Based on the first-order assumption that the impact energy...with interpreted geological profiles of Ries and Haughton, based on detailed new and published geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fossils of the Haughton Formation: A Post-Impact Crater-Fill, Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada LEO J. HICKEY...form 7 June 1988) Abstract-After the impact that formed Haughton crater, 22.4 ± 1.4 Ma ago (early Miocene)...preserve detailed evidence of pre-impact stratigraphy and post-impact morphology and development of the...report we formally designate these sediments as the Haughton Formation, of which only a 48 m thick remnant...unconformably overlies a blanket of allochthonous impact breccia forming the floor of the original crater
Book
Impact Struwues jinCanada Richard A.F. Grieve QB755.5 C3G76 > Geological Association of Canada Association...Association géologique du Canada GE@text |iS) Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2021 with funding...rie Impact Structures in Canada eetutouiie to ‘spbsnsO ni Impact Structures in Canada Richard...Natural Resources Canada ly Geological Association of Canada Association géologique du Canada Library and...and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Grieve, R. A. F. Impact structures in Canada / Richard A
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphic rock from the suevite breccia of the Ries impact crater was studied by scanning-electron microscopy...Boslough 1991; French 1998). At present, about 170 impact structures have been discovered on our planet,...transformations in target rocks of impact craters. The ca. 25 km wide and 600 m deep structure of the Ries in southern...40Ar/39Ar age of 14.3±0.2 Ma measured directly on Ries impact glasses (Buchner et al. 2003). Further argon ages...behaviour of sillimanite may help to recognize fossil impact structures within metamorphic terrains. Similar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Shock Metamorphism of Minerals Impact melt glass with a schlieren-type flow texture in a suevite sample...sample from the Chesapeake Bay impact crater, USA Falko Langenhorst1 and Alex Deutsch2 1811-5209/12/0008-0031$2...10.2113/gselements.8.1.31 T he hypervelocity impact of extraterrestrial objects causes unequivocal...nature for just a few seconds —even during the impact of kilometer-sized projectiles— resulting in the...comprehensive description of effects related to impact cratering, the reader is referred to French and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
available online at http://meteoritics.org Post-impact alteration of surficial suevites in Ries crater...Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada *Corresponding author. E-mail: nele.muttik@ut.ee...been previously interpreted as resulting from post-impact hydrothermal processes. The results of this study...hydrothermally modified during the early stages of post-impact cooling, then the alteration was of limited character...The Ries impact crater (Fig. 1) is one of the most studied impact structures on Earth. Its impact origin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
elsevier.com/locate/epsl Evidence of impact melting and post-impact decomposition of sedimentary target...target rocks from the Steen River impact structure, Alberta, Canada Erin L. Walton a,b,∗ , Nicholas E. Timms...Centre Campus, 10700 104 Ave, Edmonton, AB, T5J 4S2, Canada Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University...Earth Science Building, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E3, Canada c Department of Applied Geology, The Institute...Atria Building, 4999 98 Ave, Edmonton, AB, T6B 2X3, Canada b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
importance of being cratered: The new role of meteorite impact as a normal geological process Bevan M. FRENCH...past development of impact geology and of the newly recognized importance of impact events in terrestrial...range of impact effects preserved on the Earth, to apply the knowledge obtained from impact phenomena...exotic field of impact geology with mainstream geosciences. Since the recognition of an impact event at the...Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary, much current activity in impact geology has been promoted by traditionally trained
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Shocked lithologies at the Wanapitei impact structure, Ontario, Canada R. A. F. GRlEVEI,t AND T. J. BER2...Ottawa, Canada tPennanent address: Geophysics Division, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, KIA...25) Abstract-The ~7.5 Ian diameter Wanapitei impact structure (46°45'N; 80 045'W) lies entirely within Lake...Lake Wanapitei in central Ontario, Canada. Impact lithologies are known only from glacial float at the...the southern end ofthe lake. Over 50% ofthe impact lithologies recovered from this float can be classified
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dating the cooling of exhumed central uplifts of impact structures by the (U–Th)/He method: A case study...Bailey Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada Noble Gas Geochemistry and Geochronology Laboratories...metamorphosed anorthosite from the Manicouagan impact structure were dated by the (U–Th)/He technique. A (U–Th)/He...zircon age of 214 ± 1 Ma (2σ) derived from the impact melt. Manicouagan's central uplift formed due to...km depth as part of the modification stage of the impact process, which has facilitated the dating of its
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogist, Volume 87, pages 562–565, 2002 Reidite: An impact-produced high-pressure polymorph of zircon found...zircon with the scheelite structure. It has been found in an upper Eocene impact ejecta layer in marine...shock-metamorphosed zircons. It is associated with impact glass (tektites), shocked quartz and feldspar with...multiple sets of planar deformation features, coesite, and trace amounts of stishovite. This phase was...shock effects in zircon grains recovered from an impact ejecta layer found in upper Eocene sediments on
 
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