Terrestrial Impact Structures- A Bibliography By JACQUELYN H. FREEBERG GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1220 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1966 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY William T. Pecora, Director Library of Congress catalog-card No. GS 66-245 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printin~ Office Washin~ton, D.C. 20402 - Price 70 cents (paper cover) CONTENTS Page Abstract---------------------------------------------------------- 1 Introduction-----------------~------------------------------------ 1 Classification of structures _____________________ ------_______________ 2 Seria~----------------------------------------------------------- 4 BibliographY------------------------------------------------------ 12 Distribution and general characteristics of impact structures________ 12 Impact sites ___ -----_____________________________________ ---_- 21 AI Umchaimin Crater-------------------------------------_ 21 Amak Island Crater ____ ---------------------- __ ----------_ 21 Amguid Crater-------------------------------------------- 21 Aouelloul Crater------________________________ -----________ 21 Arnhem Land Crater_______________________________________ 22 Baghdad Craters------------------------------------------ 22 Barringer Crater__________________________________________ 22 Basra Crater------------------------~--------------------- 32 Boxhole Crater-------------------------------------------- 32 Brent Crater---------------------------------------------- 33 Campo del Cielo Craters ___ -------------------------------- 33 Carolina Bays_____________________________________________ 34 Carswell Lake structure____________________________________ 36 Chinge site ______________________________________ --------_ 37 Clearwater Lakes------------------------------------------ 37 Crater Elegante------------------------------------------- 38 Crestone Crater------------------------------------------- 38 Crooked Creek structure___________________________________ 38 Dalgaranga Crater_________________________________________ 38 Decaturville disturbance____________________________________ 39 Deep BaY--------------------------------------------~--- 39 Des Plaines disturbance _______________________________ ----- 40 Duckwater Crater----------------------------------------- 40 Dycus disturbance_________________________________________ 40 Dzioua Craters ___________________________________________ - 41 Ellef Ringnes Island Craters-------------------------------- 41 Eyre Peninsula Craters------------------------------------- 41 Flynn Creek structure______________________________________ 41 Franktown Crater----------------------------------------- 42 Glasford structure ___________________________________ ----_- 42 Glover Bluff structure______________________________________ 42 Gulf of St. Lawrence arc___________________________________ 42 Gwarkuh Crater___________________________________________ 42 IIagens Fjord Craters______________________________________ 43 IIaviland Crater___________________________________________ 43 IIenbury Craters------------------------------------------ 44 IIera ul t Craters _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 45 III IV CONTENTS Page Holleford Crater___________________________________________ 46 Howell structure ___ --------------------------------------- 47 Hungarian Plain___________________________________________ 4 7 Ilumetsa Craters_------- ___ -------__________ -------_______ 47 Jeptha Knob structure _____________ ---------_______________ 47 Ka-imu-hoku ______ ------------------ ____ _____ ____ _____ __ _ 48 Kaalijarv Craters__________________________________________ 48 Kalkkop structure_________________________________________ 50 Keeley Lake---------------------------------------------- 50 Kentland structure________________________________________ 50 Kilmichael structure_______________________________________ 51 Kofels site________________________________________________ 51 Lac Couture---------------------------------------------- 53 Lake Bosumtwi------------------------------------------- 53 Lake Del1en---------------------------------------------- 54 Lake El' gytkhyn _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 54 Lake Humeln_ __ __ __ _ __ __ _ _ _ _ __ __ __ __ _ _ _ _ __ __ _ __ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 55 Lake Michikamau___________ _____ __ _____ _____ __ ___ __ ___ __ _ 55 Lake Mien________________________________________________ 55 LakeSiljan_______________________________________________ 55 Lonar Lake----------------------------------------------- 55 Macamic Lake-------------------------------------------- 56 Malha Crater_____________________________________________ 56 Manicouagan-Mushalagan Lakes area________________________ 56 Mansonstructure__________________________________________ 57 Mecatina Crater___________________________________________ 57 Melville Island Craters_____________________________________ 57 Menihek Lake area________________________________________ 57 Merewether Crater________________________________________ 57 Merriwell Lake____________________________________________ 58 Middlesboro Basin________ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 58 Morasko Craters------------------------------------------ 58 Mount Doreen Crater field ______________ ------ ____ --------- 58 Murgab Craters___________________________________________ 59 Nastapoka Islands arc __________ ----------_____ ----- ___ ---- 59 N ebiewale Crater ___________________ -------- __ -------______ 59 New Mexico Crater________________________________________ 59 New Quebec Crater________________________________________ 60 Odessa Craters____________________________________________ 62 Panamint Crater__________________________________________ 64 Paris (Sucy-en-Brie and Alentours) lakes_____________________ 64 Parry Sound Crater________________________________________ 65 Patomskii Crater __________________ ----- ___ ----______ ------ 65 Pilot Lake________________________________________________ 65 Pretoria Salt Pan__________________________________________ 65 Richat Crater_____________________________________________ 65 Rieskessel________________________________________________ 66 Sault au Cochons structure_-------------------------------- 71 Sayan Crater--------------------------------------------- 71 Semsiyat dome _________________________________ -----____ -- 71 Serpent Mound structure ____________ -------_--------------- 71 Sierra Madera structure ______________________ --___ --____ --- 72 CONTENTS v Pag~ Sikhote-Alin Craters__ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 72 Socotra Crater-------------------------------------------- 76 Steinheim Basin___________________________________________ 76 Sudbury Basin____________________________________________ 77 Talemzane Crater_________________________________________ 77 Temimichat-Ghallaman Crater ______ ------- ____ ------_______ 78 Tenoumer Crater__________________________________________ 78 Tiflin Crater---------------------------------------------- 78 Tunguskaevent___________________________________________ 78 TvarenBaY----------------------------------------------- 81 Ungava BaY---------------------------------------------- 81 Upheaval Dome __ -----_------______ -----------____________ 82 Versailles structure________________________________________ 82 Vredefort structure _______________ -'--_______________________ 82 Wabar Craters_--------____________ .,._;:.. _____ ------_________ 84 Wells Creek area _____________ -~-~ f~ __ :_,..:___ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ __ _ 84 West Hawk Lake__________________________________________ 85 Wilbarger dome__________ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 85 Wilkes Land structure _________ ---------------------------- 85 Winkler Crater-------------------------------------------- 85 Wolf Creek Crater_________________________________________ 85 Indexes---------------------------------------------------------- 87 Authorindex-------------------------------------------------- 87 Index of alternate names_-------------------------------------- 91 ILLUSTRATION PLATE 1. Sketch map showing locations of terrestrial impact struc- tures---------------------------------------------- In pocket TERRESTRIAL IMPACT STRUCTURES-A BIBLIOGRAPHY By JACQUELYN H. FREEBERG ABSTRACT This bibliography lists 110 features for which origin by meteoritic impact has been suggested and gives a comprehensive group of references for each feature. Annotations for the more significant contributions to the literature are included. The structures are divided into six categories, and their geographic locations are indicated on a sketch map. INTRODUCTION The compilation of a bibliography on terrestrial impact structures was prompted by an increasing interest in meteoritic impact as a factor in the geologic process and by the analogy of these structures to similar features on the moon. The bibliography is comprehensive in order to serve as wide a range of public interest as possible. Some­ thing of an attempt to evaluate the entries has been made by reviewing as many of the articles as possible and by including in the bibliography annotations for some of the more significant contributions to the litera­ ture of each structure. The first section of the bibliography lists the references on distribu­ tion and general characteristics