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Breccia from
Meteor Crater, Meteor Crater area, Coconino County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Impact Crater
Classification
Type:Breccia
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Breccia data
Locality Data:Click here to view Meteor Crater, Meteor Crater area, Coconino County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1288366
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1288366:4
GUID (UUID V4):07b77e57-21ba-473a-8889-ba35169d11c9
Nearest other occurrences of Breccia
95.5km (59.3 miles) ⓘHoskie TSO No. 1 prospect (Hoskie TSO #1), Bidahochi Butte, Bidahochi, Hopi Buttes Mining District, Navajo County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (edition)
the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona (a k a Meteor Crater) Second Edition Prepared by David...to illuminate the world’s best preserved impact crater, our efforts to use this worldclass geologic site...programs, and data relevant to the analysis of the crater. The background image was taken by the author....the Field Training and Research Program at Meteor Crater was taken by teaching assistant Josh Garber...of images showing different perspectives of the crater are, from left to right, LPI’s colorized version
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1700 E. Ft. Lowell, Suite 106, Tucson, Arizona 85719–2395, USA Institute for Dynamics of Geospheres, Russian...unresolved questions about Meteor Crater, the ïŹrst recognized impact crater on Earth. This theoretical...and laboratory studies of Meteor Crater. Our results indicate that Meteor Crater was formed by a high-velocity...compression, and were redistributed randomly around the crater. Thus, the distribution of Canyon Diablo meteorites...ejected from the crater during crater excavation and was dispersed mostly downrange of the crater as molten
Report (issue)
if r IMPACT MECHANICS AT METEOR CRATER, ARIZONA, Eugene M; Shoemake^ Prepared on behalf of the U... Geologic map of Meteor Crater* Ariaona * § , 4. Cross sections of Metoor Crater, Ariaoaa* aad 5...5. Compress Urn of rocks at Metaor Crater, Ari»oaa» a« a function of compression of the meteorite and...showing sequence of events in formation of Meteor Crater, ArUona--- ~~-~ 43 Tables Table 1. Solutions...7.85fm/cna - II Impact mechanics at **«**<>* Crater. Ariaona Eugene Bi* Shoemaker U. S. Geot*g*«»*
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and projectile-bearing ejecta at Barringer Crater, Arizona Gordon R. Osinski a,b,∗ , Ted E. Bunch c ,...Environmental Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article...impactgenerated melt phases within ejecta at Barringer Crater, Arizona, one of the ïŹrst impact craters on Earth to...underwent melting during the formation of Barringer Crater. We propose that the melting of dolomite produces...type at many impact sites, including Barringer Crater, calcite is the dominant melt product. When taken
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uark.edu/meteor Petrographic studies of the impact melts from Meteor Crater, Arizona, USA FRIEDRICH...Texas 77058, USA 2Lockheed-Martin ESC, C23, 2400 NASA Road I, Houston, Texas 77058, USA 3Hemandez Engineering...16055 Space Center Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77062, USA *Correspondence author's e-mail address: Friedrich...the ballistically dispersed melts from Meteor Crater, Arizona, USA to determine the stratigraphic extent...major target formations, Moenkopi, Kaibab, and Coconino. Least-square mixing calculations revealed one
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Devolatilization or melting of carbonates at Meteor Crater, AZ? 1* € F. HORZ , P. D. ARCHER, JR.2, P. B...Houston, Texas 77058, USA 2 Jacobs, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas 77058, USA 3 ARES, NASA Johnson...Houston, Texas 77058, USA 4 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA * Corresponding author...monolithic clast of highly shocked Coconino sandstone of Meteor Crater, AZ to evaluate whether melting or...melts and their crystallization products at Meteor Crater. The carbon and oxygen isotope systematics for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LETTER In situ 1oBe-26A1exposure ages at Meteor Crater, Arizona K. NISHIIZUMI,’ C. P. KOHL,’ E. M. SHOEMAKER...La Jolla, CA 92093-0317, USA 2USGeological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA ‘Department of Physics, University...University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3859,USA (Received March 11, 1991; accepted in revised form...to determine the age of Meteor Crater, Arizona. A lower bound on the crater age of 49,200 + 1,700 years...A new method of dating the surface exposure of crater materials using in situ produced cosmogenic nuclides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reequilibration of fluid inclusions in Coconino sandstone from Meteor Crater, Arizona Megan E. Elwood Madden a,*...VA 24060, USA b Lunar and Planetary Lab, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA Received 2...metamorphosed Coconino sandstone were collected from Barringer Meteorite Crater (Meteor Crater, Arizona) and classified...1971. Shock metamorphism of the Coconino sandstone at Meteor Crater, Arizona, Journal of Geophysical Research...decreases dramatically from unshocked samples of Coconino sandstone through shock stages 1a, 1b, and 2.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1998) 8 Meteoritical Society, 1998. Printed in USA. Compositional variation and mixing of impact melts...77058, USA 2NASA Johnson Space Center, Planetary Sciences Branch, SN4, Houston, Texas 7'7058, USA *Correspondence...holohyaline impact glasses from Ries, Wabar, and Meteor Crater using a Cameca SX 100 scanning electron microprobe...Ries and Meteor Crater impacts involved lithologically heterogeneous targets; whereas, Wabar Crater formed...heterogeneous, schlieren-rich glasses from the Ries Crater illustrate that schlieren of highly variable color
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wolfe Creek meteorite impact: deep structure of the crater and effects on target rock b C. O'Neill & C. Heine...Sciences , Rice University , Houston, TX, 77005, USA E-mail: Published online: 27 Sep 2011. To cite this...Wolfe Creek meteorite impact: deep structure of the crater and effects on target rock, Australian Journal...Wolfe Creek meteorite impact: deep structure of the crater and effects on target rock C. O’NEILL* AND C. HEINE...NSW, 2006, Australia. The Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater is an impact structure 880 m in diameter, located
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA *Corresponding author. E-mail: sahuson@hotmail.com...Madera impact crater, west Texas, unshocked equivalent samples from 95 miles north of the crater and the Mission...dolostone and limestone samples were collected from the crater rim (lower shock intensity) and the central uplift...collected from well cores drilled outside of the impact crater. Carbonate rocks of the Mission Canyon Formation...significant shock intensities at the Sierra Madera impact crater can be differentiated from tectonically deformed
Book
Controversy raged over whether such sites as Meteor Crater in Arizona were attributable to meteorites or volcanism... Within Meteor Crater, Arizona ~ Meteorite Craters KATHLEEN MARK The University of Arizona Press TUCSON...the earth. THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS Copyright © 1987 The Arizona Board of Regents All Rights Reserved...Curious Landforms of the Colorado Plateau 3. Meteor Crater, Arizona 4. More Meteorite Craters 5. Explosive...Shatter Cones 11. Meteorite Craters in Canada and Crater Forms 104 12. 148 More Controversy, More Craters
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
An unusual occurrence of coesite at the Lonar crater, India Steven J. JARET1*, Brian L. PHILLIPS1, David...11794–2100, USA 2 Department of Geosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, USA 3 Jacobs—NASA...Houston, Texas 77058, USA 4 Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA * Corresponding author...basalt at Lonar crater, India. This is the first report of coesite from the Lonar crater. Coesite occurs...identified in natural materials from the Meteor Crater, Arizona (Chao et al. 1960). Since then, coesite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(2001) Available online at http://www.uark.edu/meteor Evidence for shock metamorphism in sandstones...product, no crater structure and no disturbed sandstone strata have yet been found in the area of the LDG...impact structures (e.g., Ries Crater in Germany; Arizona Meteorite Crater, USA), where the ejecta occur in... I), the LDG strewn field covers a roughly oval area of about 130 x 53 km (Spencer, 1939) on an almost...short passage through the southern part of the LDG area, one of the authors (B. K.) collected a few samples
Report (volume)
---_AI Umchaimin Crater-------------------------------------_ Amak Island Crater ____ ----------------------...----------_ Amguid Crater-------------------------------------------Aouelloul Crater------ ________________________...__________ Basra Crater------------------------~--------------------Boxhole Crater------------------...-------------------------Brent Crater---------------------------------------------Campo del Cielo Craters...--------------Crater Elegante------------------------------------------Crestone Crater--------------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
classification developed for sandstones at Meteor Crater. Class 1a sandstones (<3 GPa) display crude...studies of S. Kieffer and co-workers at Meteor Crater, Arizona (Kieffer 1971; Kieffer et al. 1976b). These...Kieffer et al. (1976b) showed that in Coconino Sandstone from Meteor Crater, diaplectic glass forms in rocks...1945 © The Meteoritical Society, 2007. Printed in USA. 1946 G. R. Osinski Fig. 1. Summary and comparison...shock pressures in carbonates from Serpent Mound, USA (Schedl 2006). Given that low shear stresses of ∌10
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
31-33 (1993) @ Meteontical Society, 1993. Printed in USA The Barringer Medal Award Presented 1992 July 30...States Geological Survey Reston, Virginia 22092, USA (Received 1992 November 30) of shock within the...metamorphism, meteorite craters- particularly the Ries Crater of Germany-and tektites. COESITE, STISHOVITE, AND...memory and acquaintance with the Barringer Meteor Crater of Arizona was in 1960 June when Dr. John O'Keefe...Maryland) brought me a small piece of shocked Coconino Sandstone specimen from the U.S. National Museum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
super-Schmidt meteor data. A less specific ablation model is also considered. A method for analyzing meteor light...Approximate lag times can be readily deduced from reduced meteor data. A typical average value of the lag time computed...moving toward the northwest from the Philadelphia area toward Saint Mary's. Even though the sky was partially...partially overcast throughout most of the area, the fireball was well observed by many people and thus...reached the ground. However, the calculated impact area is in almost completely uninhabited state forest
Report (issue)
9 S P Flow. ....................... 11 Meteor Crater ..................... 12 Southern Coulee ...Structure and Composition of the Southern Coulee, Mono Crater, California A Pumiceous Rhyolite Flow, by Robert...Geology and Petrography of the Sonora Pass Site, Mono County, California, by David V. Haines. ........ Abstract......... 170 Petrography of Meteor Crater Core 4, Meteor Crater, Arizona, by David V. Haines .......... Page Topographic map of Southern Coulee, Mono County, California ................... In pocket Figure
Book
OLOGY om GEOLOGY UNDERFOooT in NORTHERN ARIZONA Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with...foot0000abbo GEOLOGY UNDERFOOT in NORTHERN ARIZONA Lon Abbott and Terri Cook Mountain Press Publishing...Abbott, Lon, 1963— Geology underfoot in northern Arizona / Lon Abbott and Terri Cook. —lst ed. p. cm. Includes...Geology—Arizona—Guidebooks. 2.Geoparks—Arizona—Guidebooks. 3. National parks and reserves—Arizona—Guidebooks...(406) 728-1900 www.mountain-press.com 4. Parks—Arizona For Dona, With everything yow doand every, life
Report (volume)
Crater___________________________________________ Merewether Crater---------------------------------------Middlesboro...Craters____________________________________________ Patomskii Crater ___________________________________ -----__ Pilot...31 31 31 31 32 32 32 34 34 34 34 35 VVoli Creek Crater----------------------------------------Authori...consideration three structures: Crestone Crater, Socotra Crater and l{a-imu-hoku. Merri,v·ell Lake is removed...removed, having been a misnomer for ~ferewether Crater (~f. R. Dence, written commun., 1966). Increasing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Meteqitical Society, 1998. Printed in USA. The Aouelloul crater, Mauritania: On the problem of confirming...confirming the impact origin of a small crater CHRlSTIAN KOEBERLl*, WOLF UWE REIMOLD2 AND STEVEN B. SHIREY3...5241 Broad Branch Rd. NW, Washington, D.C. 20015, USA *Correspondence author's e-mail address: christian...3.1 Ma Aouelloul crater (Mauritania), 390 m in diameter, which is exposed in an area of Ordovician Oujeft...studied several fractured sandstone samples from the crater rim for the possible presence of shock metamorphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Printed in USA Authentication controversies and impactite petrography of the New Quebec Crater URSULA B...02138, USA -Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA (Received...meteoritic origin was proposed for the New Quebec Crater in 1949 on the basis of an aerial photograph showing...C. Leonard and Lincoln LaPaz, cited the "Chubb" Crater as a flagrant example for which claims of meteoritic...also listed the Lake Bosumtwi Crater in Ashanti (now Ghana) among crater-like features, clearly ofnon-meteoritic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington D.C. 20560, USA Mailing address: 7408 Wyndale Lane, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815, USA E-mail: french...geological record (the Chesapeake Bay crater, the Alamo breccia, and multiple layers of impact spherules...are 169 © Meteoritical Society, 2004. Printed in USA. 170 B. M. French associated either with the...impact events in other extinctions is now an active area of investigation (Ryder et al. 1996; Koeberl and...longterm climate changes, and the distribution of crater ejecta over regional to global distances. Nor is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
impact structures: Their utility in constraining crater formation Richard A. F. GRIEVE* and Ann M. THERRIAULT...of the target body. Local geology of the target area tends to be of secondary importance, and the net...target area. As a consequence of the nature of the impact process, local geology of the target area is generally...salient 199 © Meteoritical Society, 2004. Printed in USA. 200 R. A. F. Grieve and A. M. Therriault characteristics...some no longer correspond to the definition of a crater, i.e., a negative topographic feature. Therefore
 
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