Thermo‐mechanical interaction of a large impact melt sheet with adjacent target rock, Sudbury impact structure, Canada
Thermo‐mechanical interaction of a large impact melt sheet with adjacent target rock, Sudbury impact structure, Canada
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大型冲击熔体片与相邻目标岩石的热机械相互作用,萨德伯里冲击结构,加拿大
DOI:
10.1111/maps.13268
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Riller
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文献类型:
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作者:
Göllner;Wüstemann;Bendschneider;Reimers;Gibson;Lightfoot;Riller
The 1.85 Ga Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC) and its thermal aureole are unique on Earth with regard to unraveling the effects of a large impact melt sheet on adjacent target rocks. Notably, the formation of Footwall Breccia, lining the basal SIC, remains controversial and has been attributed to impact, cratering, and postcratering processes. Based on detailed field mapping and microstructural analysis of thermal aureole rocks, we identified three distinct zones characterized by static recrystallization, incipient melting, and crystallization textures. The temperature gradient in the thermal aureole increases toward the SIC and culminates in a zone of partial melting, which correlates spatially with the Footwall Breccia. We therefore conclude that assimilation of target rock into initially superheated impact melt and simultaneous deformation after cratering strongly contributed to breccia formation. Estimated melt fractions of the Footwall Breccia amount to 80 vol% and attest to an extreme loss in mechanical strength and, thus, high mobility of the Breccia during assimilation. Transport of highly mobile Footwall Breccia material into the overlying Sublayer Norite of the SIC and vice versa can be attributed to Raleigh–Taylor instability of both units, long‐term crater modification caused by viscous relaxation of crust underlying the Sudbury impact structure, or both.
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影响因子:
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作者:
E. Rutter;D. H. K. Neumann
通讯作者:
E. Rutter;D. H. K. Neumann
DOI:
10.1144/gsl.sp.2005.248.01.01
发表时间:
2005
期刊:
Geological Society, London, Special Publications
影响因子:
--
作者:
R. Grieve
通讯作者:
R. Grieve
影响因子:
2.2
作者:
Markus Osterman;U. Schärer;A. Deutsch
通讯作者:
A. Deutsch
影响因子:
4.9
作者:
M. Zieg;B. Marsh
通讯作者:
B. Marsh
影响因子:
5.8
作者:
P. Lightfoot;R. Keays;G. Morrison;A. Bite;K. P. Farrell
通讯作者:
K. P. Farrell