Australian impact cratering record: Updates and recent discoveries

There are currently 31 confirmed structures of impact origin in Australia. More than 49 additional structures have been proposed to have formed due to asteroid impact but await confirmation. Many discoveries have been made in Australia in the time since the last comprehensive review of the Australia...

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Main Authors: Quintero, Raiza R., Cavosie, Aaron, Cox, Morgan A., Miljković, Katarina, Dugdale, Allison
Other Authors: Wolf Uwe Reimold
Format: Book Chapter
Published: 2021
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90191
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author Quintero, Raiza R.
Cavosie, Aaron
Cox, Morgan A.
Miljković, Katarina
Dugdale, Allison
author2 Wolf Uwe Reimold
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Quintero, Raiza R.
Cavosie, Aaron
Cox, Morgan A.
Miljković, Katarina
Dugdale, Allison
author_sort Quintero, Raiza R.
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description There are currently 31 confirmed structures of impact origin in Australia. More than 49 additional structures have been proposed to have formed due to asteroid impact but await confirmation. Many discoveries have been made in Australia in the time since the last comprehensive review of the Australian impact cratering record was published in a peer-reviewed journal in 2005. These include further expanding the record of confirmed craters, and providing new insights into a variety of impact-related processes, such as shock deformation, phase transitions in accessory minerals, new impact age determinations, studies of oblique impacts, and more. This update is a review that focuses principally on summarizing discoveries made since 2005. Highlights since then include confirmation of five new Australian impact structures, identification of Earth's oldest recognized impact structure, recognition of shock deformation in accessory minerals, discovery of the high-pressure phase reidite in Australia, determination of the links between impact craters and some ore deposits, and publication of the first generation of numerical hydrocode models for some Australian craters.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-901912025-04-16T04:46:19Z Australian impact cratering record: Updates and recent discoveries Quintero, Raiza R. Cavosie, Aaron Cox, Morgan A. Miljković, Katarina Dugdale, Allison Wolf Uwe Reimold Christian Koeberl There are currently 31 confirmed structures of impact origin in Australia. More than 49 additional structures have been proposed to have formed due to asteroid impact but await confirmation. Many discoveries have been made in Australia in the time since the last comprehensive review of the Australian impact cratering record was published in a peer-reviewed journal in 2005. These include further expanding the record of confirmed craters, and providing new insights into a variety of impact-related processes, such as shock deformation, phase transitions in accessory minerals, new impact age determinations, studies of oblique impacts, and more. This update is a review that focuses principally on summarizing discoveries made since 2005. Highlights since then include confirmation of five new Australian impact structures, identification of Earth's oldest recognized impact structure, recognition of shock deformation in accessory minerals, discovery of the high-pressure phase reidite in Australia, determination of the links between impact craters and some ore deposits, and publication of the first generation of numerical hydrocode models for some Australian craters. 2021 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90191 10.1130/2021.2550(02) restricted
spellingShingle Quintero, Raiza R.
Cavosie, Aaron
Cox, Morgan A.
Miljković, Katarina
Dugdale, Allison
Australian impact cratering record: Updates and recent discoveries
title Australian impact cratering record: Updates and recent discoveries
title_full Australian impact cratering record: Updates and recent discoveries
title_fullStr Australian impact cratering record: Updates and recent discoveries
title_full_unstemmed Australian impact cratering record: Updates and recent discoveries
title_short Australian impact cratering record: Updates and recent discoveries
title_sort australian impact cratering record: updates and recent discoveries
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90191