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


Locality type:Impact Crater
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1611424
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1611424:3
GUID (UUID V4):32b810b7-7bf6-4616-9752-fd8866174dff
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
1.5km (0.9 miles) ⓘHaughton Crater, Devon Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
References
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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...dolomitic rock (in the crater rim), limestone (wall), gypsum-rich carbonate (floor), and limestone again (central
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Intracrystalline lipids within sulfates from the Haughton Impact Structure—Implications for survival of lipids on...December 2006 Abstract Lipids can be present within gypsum as intracrystalline inclusions if they become incorporated...samples of gypsum and gypsum-rich soils from the Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island, Canadian High...hopanes and steranes, are not present in the Haughton gypsum in sufficient quantities to have been readily...biomarkers within mineral phases we have analysed gypsum- 423 rich materials that are present in the Recent/Quaternary
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within a hydrothermal vug at the Haughton impact structure, Canada Rebecca N. GREENBERGER1,9,*, John...University, 324 Brook St, Box 1846, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA 2 Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration...1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada 3 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western...1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada 4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University...1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada 5 SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Ave, Mountain View
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enhanced magnetization at the center of the Haughton impact structure? W. ZYLBERMAN1,2* , Y. QUESNEL1 , P....University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada 3 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University...University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada * Corresponding author. E-mail: zylberman@cerege...Abstract–Haughton is a ~24 Myr old midsize (apparent diameter 23 km) complex impact structure located...located on Devon Island in Nunavut, Canada. The center of the structure shows a negative gravity anomaly of
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Route de l’Aeroport, Saint-Hubert, Quebec, J3Y 8Y9, Canada 5Department of Geology, University of Aberdeen...microorganisms. Using evidence from the Haughton impact structure, Nunavut, Canadian High Arctic, we describe...the nature of the lithophytic ecological niche. Impact-induced increases in rock porosity and fracturing...commonly increased in abundance as a result of impact bulking. Chasmoendolithic habitats require less...formation is likely to be common to most impact events. Impact events are unlikely to have an influence
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study of impact-induced hydrothermal activity: The Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Canadian...5A3, Canada †Canadian Space Agency, 6767 Route de l’AÈroport, Saint-Hubert, Quebec, J3Y 8Y9, Canada *Corresponding...state and excellent exposure at the 39 Ma Haughton impact structure, 23 km in diameter, allows a clearer picture...complex impact craters. A moderate- to low-temperature hydrothermal system was generated at Haughton by the...the interaction of groundwaters with the hot impact melt breccias that filled the interior of the crater
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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
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Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University...destroy as well as create habitats for life. The impact process can increase the translucency and porosity...up to about 80 GPa from the Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Canada, possess a small, but discernible...dissolved by organic acids. The implication that impact events do not impoverish their capacity to serve...analogous impact structures on Mars. After the deleterious effects of the direct meteorite impact, any microorganisms
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http://meteoritics.org Impactites of the Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic Gordon R...Bailey Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada 2Mars Institute, SETI Institute, and NASA Ames...Route de l’Aeroport, Saint-Hubert, Quebec, J3Y 8Y9, Canada *Corresponding author. E-mail: osinski@lycos.com...presence of a series of impactites at the Haughton impact structure. In the crater interior, there is a consistent...pale grey allochthonous impact melt breccias. The groundmass of the pale grey impact melt breccias consists
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Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3B 2E9 Geological Survey of Canada—Calgary, Natural Resources Canada, 3303 33rd St...St. N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2L-2A7 c Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba...MB, Canada R3T 2N2 d Canadian Space Agency, 6767, route de l’Ae roport, Saint-Hubert, QC, Canada J3Y...Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, Canada N6A 5B7 f Department of Physics & Astronomy, University...Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, Canada N6A 5B7 b a r t i c l e in f o a b s t r a c
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crater formation as revealed by the Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic Gordon R...Bailey Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada †Present address: Canadian Space Agency, 6767 Route...Route de l’Aeroport, Saint-Hubert, Quebec, J3Y 8Y9, Canada *Corresponding author. E-mail: osinski@lycos.com...systematic field mapping campaign at the Haughton impact structure have revealed new information about the...the tectonic evolution of mid-size complex impact structures. These studies reveal that several structures
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in USA The Surface Structure of the Haughton Impact Crater, Devon Island, Canada L. BISCHOFF AND W. OSKIERSKI...existing descriptions of the Haughton structure being a dome-like structure. The central area represents...of rocks belonging to the oldest part of the Devon Island Paleozoic sediment cover. The orientation of...of the blocks partly reflects this dome-like structure. The morphologically defined "inner ring" is a...a structurally distinct zone, predominated by gypsum beds of the Bay Fiord Formation. These beds dip 30
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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
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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
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Magnetic Investigations in the Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island, Canada JEAN POHL,' ALFONS ECKSTALLER'...-Geological Survey of Canada, Geophysics Division, I Observatory Crescent, Ottawa, Canada (Received 22 March...of a new gravity survey show that the Haughton impact structure is associated with a 24 km diameter negative...amplitude of -4 mgal is located at the center of the structure. A positive magnetic total field anomaly with...anomaly is explained by lowered rock densities due to impact-related fracturing in the crater area. The central
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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
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Street, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, N6A 5B7 Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1151...Street, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, N6A 5B7 c University of Toronto Institute for...Toronto, ON, Canada, M3H 5T6 d MDA Space Missions, 9445 Airport Road, Brampton, ON, Canada, L6S 4J3 e Optech...Incorporated, 300 Interchange Way, Vaughan, ON, Canada, L4K 5Z8 b a r t i c l e in fo abstract Article...the 23 km diameter, 39 Ma, Haughton impact structure located on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic. Several
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shock melting of sulfates from the Haughton impact structure, Arctic Canada Gordon R. Osinski  , John G....Brunswick, 2 Bailey Drive, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3 Canada Received 5 February 2003; received in revised form...carbonate-rich impact melt breccias at the 24 km diameter, 23 Ma Haughton impact structure, Arctic Canada. The...carbonates and silicates, crystallized directly from an impact-generated melt. Evidence for this includes (1)...the presence of Si, Al and Mg in the anhydrite structure, which were probably ‘trapped’ by quenching from
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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,
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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
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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...constrains the onset of melting of calcite in the Haughton sandstones to >10 < 20 GPa. At higher pressures
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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
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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...corundum (A120 3) in feldspar and in the AI/Si ~ 1 region, and (4) mullite in association with SiO 2 glass
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isotope study of carbonates from the Haughton impact crater, Canada Isabelle Martinez a, Pierre Agrinier...allochtonous polymict breccia from the Haughton impact crater (Canada) were studied by Scanning Electron...instead, were produced by back-reactions between impact-released CO 2 and highly reactive residual oxides...general mechanism for retaining impact-produced volatiles during impact events. [UC] 0012-821X/94/$07...meteorite impacts, therefore, quantification of impact-released CO 2 is important for evaluating their
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for an impact-induced biosphere from the ÎŽ 34 S signature of sulphides in the Rochechouart impact structure...2016 Editor: C. Sotin Keywords: rochechouart impact impact hydrothermal sulphur stable isotopes bacterial...diameter Rochechouart impact structure, France, has extensive evidence for post-impact hydrothermal alteration...subsurface and are probably related to the post impact hydrothermal system. The source of the sulphate...penecontemporaneous to the impact, as inferred from the marginal marine paleogeography of the structure. In other eroded
 
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