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PDF Linkchapter Index [Italic page numbers indicate major references] A arsenic, 116, 143, 168 brecciation, shock, 225, 231 Ashanti crater, Ghana. See Bosumtwi Brent crater, Ontario, 321 Abitibi Subprovince, 305 crater, Ghana bromine, 137 Acraman depression, South Australia, A thy ris Broodkop Shear Zone, 180 211, 212, 218 gurdoni transversalis, 114 Budevska crater, Venus, 24 geochemistry, 216 hunanensis, 114 Bunyeroo Formation, 209, 210, 219, geochronology, 219 aubrite, 145 220, 221, 222 melt rock, 216, 218 augite, 159 Bushveld layered intrusion, 337 paleomagnetism, 219 Australasian strewn field, 114, 133, See also Acraman impact structure 134, 137, 138, 139, 140, 143, Acraman impact structure, South C 144, 146 Australia, 209 australite, 136, 141, 145, 146 Cabin-Medicine Lodge thrust system, Adelaid Geosyncline, 210, 220, 222 Austria, moldavites, 142 227 adularía, 167 Cabin thrust plate, 173, 225, 226, Aeneas on Dione crater, Earth, 24 227, 231, 232 aerodynamically shaped tektites, 135 B calcite, 112, 166 Al Umchaimin depression, western Barbados, tektites, 134, 139, 142, 144 calcium, 115, 116, 128 Iraq, 259 barium, 116, 169, 216 calcium oxide, 186, 203, 216 albite, 209 Barrymore crater, Venus, 44 Callisto, rings, 30 Algoman granites, 293 Basal Member, Onaping Formation, Cambodia, circular structure, 140, 141 alkali, 156, 159, 167 266, 267, 268, 271, 272, 273, Cambrian, Beaverhead impact alkali feldspar, 121, 123, 127, 211 289, 290, 295, 296, 299, 304, structure, Montana, 163, 225, 232 almandine-spessartite, 200 307, 308, 310, 311, 314 Canadian Arctic, 253 Alpes Formation, Imbrium basin, 5 basalt, 227 Canadian Shield, 265, 272, 319, 321, Altai ring, Nectaris basin, 8 basin excavation, Moon, 8 327 alumina, 124, 127, 128 156 basin ring formation, Moon, 7, 61 Canning Basin, Western Australia, aluminum, 6, 115, 163, 167 Bay of Bengal, 145 111, 112, 117 aluminum oxide, 167 Beaverhead impact structure, 163, 225 Cape York meteorite field, 337 amphibole, 121, 128, 185, 282 age, 231 carbonate rocks, 200, 227, 237, 239 amphibolite, gneiss, 226, 227 geochemistry, 163 Carlile Formation, 238, 244, 245 andesite, 227 geochronology, 163 Cartier granite, 280, 324 anhydrite, 93, 259 petrography, 16 3 cataclasites, 206 anorthosite, 7, 52, 53 size, 232 cavity collapse, 61, 63, 64, 65, 68 igneous, 16 trace elements, 168 Cayley Formation, Moon, 5 Antarctica, pseudotachylites, 171 Beaverhead Mountains, Montana, 163, Cenomanian/Turonian boundary, antimony, 116, 168 164, 225, 226 impact event, 112 apatite, 216 Bedias, Texas, tektites, 142 Central European strewn field, 133, Apennine Bench Formation, Moon, 6, bediasites, 139 137, 140, 142 11, 12 Bee Bluff, Texas, 143 central-peak craters volcanism, 17 Big Creek Formation, 226 Manson Impact Structure, 237, 239, Apennine Front, Moon, 8, 16 biotite, 121, 123, 127, 156, 185, 187, 245 Apennine mountains, 15 200, 282 Mars, 36, 38 Apennine ring, Moon, 5 Birrimian System, 251 Mercury, 36, 38 Apenninus material, Imbrium basin, 5 Black Member, Sudbury Structure, 267, Moon, 2, 31, 46 aphanites, Apollo 17, 6 269, 270, 273, 291, 304, 307, cerium, 136, 216 Apollo collections, 6, 16 308, 310, 314 cesium, 116, 168 Apollo landing sites, 6 Black Reef Décollement Zone, 180 chalcophile elements, 116 Apollo missions, 6, 65 Bohemia, moldavites, 142 Challis, Idaho, 225, 232, 233 Apollo 14, samples, 16 Bosumtwi crater, Ghana, 136, 140, Charlevoix crater, Montana, 197, 232 Apollo 15, 6 141, 145, 249, 250, 251, 255 Chelmsford Formation, 265, 276, 291, KREEP basalts, 11, 12, 13 brachiopods, 112, 114 295, 304, 307, 308, 314, 320 landing site, 11, 13, 15 breccia Chelmsford sandstone, 326 Apollo 16, melts, 6 Beaverhead impact structure, chemical weathering, 167 Apollo 17 Montana, 225, 230 Chesapeake Bay, impact crater, 143 aphanites, 6 Manson Impact Structure, 237 Chicxulub crater, Yucatán, Mexico, 29, melts, 6 Onaping Formation, 265, 266, 271, 30, 48, 93, 337 Aral Sea, 250 295, 296 chlorine, 137, 239 Archimedes crater, Moon, 12 Roter Kamm Crater, Namibia, 197 chlorite, 164, 166, 167, 185, 200, Arecibo radar images, 29, 30, 31, 39, Sudbury Structure, 265 230 42 See also pseudotachylites; Sudbury chondrites, 157, 335 argillite, 153 Breccia chromite, 135, 138 arkose, 292 343 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/chapter-pdf/958507/spe293-bm.pdf by guest on 02 October 2021 344 Index chromium, 13, 116, 145, 168 crystallization, 14, 15 extinction mechanisms, 93 chronology, pseudotachylites, 186 temperature, 121 Cleator shear zone, Arizona, 171 Cuba, tektites, 142 F Cleopatra crater, Venus, 39, 46 cyanobacteria, 117, 119 clinochlore, 166 Falconbridge area, 277 clinopyroxene, 121, 128, 142, 145 D Farm Koppieskraal, South Africa, 183 Cobalt embayment, 324 fauna, Gondwana, 111 cobalt, 116, 145, 168 dacite, 211, 213, 214 feldspar, 121, 159, 164, 177, 185, coesite, 138, 186, 191, 198 Dakota Formation, 238 200, 202, 203, 216, 267 Colesberg Trend, 180 Damman Formation, 259, 260, 263 Flagstad crater, Venus, 24 collapse, lithospheric, Moon, 9 Deccan Trap basalt, 118 fluidization, Moon, 1, 2, 7 complex craters, Venus, 19 Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) fluoride, 239 Cone Center ejecta, 16 cores, microtektites, 114, 134, Flynn Creek structure, Tennessee, 321 conodont zones, 111, 112 138, 139, 141, 142 Footwall Breccia, 290, 292, 293, 294, conodonts, 112, 114, 117 deformations, Beaverhead impact 296, 304, 305, 308, 313 Contact Sublayer, Sudbury Structure, structure, Montana, 225 See also Footwall rocks 278, 290, 291, 304, 306, 307, Descartes material, Nectaris basin, 5 Footwall rocks, 267, 295, 305, 306, 308, 331, 332, 334. See also Devonian 307, 317 Sublayer Late, impact event, 111 See also Footwall Breccia Copernicus crater, Moon, 8, 31, 55 Devonian/Carboniferous boundary, Foy Offset, Sudbury Structure, 278, copper, 143 112, 116 321 Copper Cliff Offset, Sudbury Structure, diamictite, 227 Fra Mauro Formation, Imbrium basin, 278 diamond, 155, 159 5, 16 copper-nickel ore deposits, Sudbury Dmitria hunanensis, 114 Frasnian/Femennian boundary, 111, Igneous Complex, 297, 299, 304, dolerite, 153 112, 116, 117, 118 306, 314 dolomite, 153, 253 French River fault system, 324 coptoclastites, 156 Dresden, Germany, moldavites, 142 Frood-Stobie body, Sudbury Structure, cordierite, 121, 159 Dryden area, 277 278, 280, 282, 286 Cordillera ring, Orientale basin, 4, 8, DSDP, tektites, 142, 143, 144 Frutexites, 111, 117, 119 39, 42, 43, 47 dunites, 338 Cordillera Scarp, Orientale basin, 5, 6, 63, 67 G E Cordilleran thrust belt, 225, 226 gallium, 143 Corpman crater, Venus, 24 Early crepida Zone, 111, 114, 116, Ganymede, rings, 30 corrensite, 166 117, 118, 119 Gariep marble, 198 corundum, 135, 138 Early triangularis Zone, 114, 116 garnet, 121, 126, 156, 199, 200 Cotton crater, Venus, 39 East Bull Lake, 326 Gawler Craton, South Australia, 211, crater degradation, Venus, 23, 24 East Bull Lake intrusion, Sudbury 218, 220, 221 crater depth Structure, 280 Gawler Range Volcanics, Australia, Earth, 20 East Clearwater impact melt, 335 209, 210, 211, 216, 219, 221, Mars, 19, 20 East Rand Basin, 180 222 Mercury, 19 East Range, Sudbury Structure, 266, Gawler Ranges, 210, 218, 221 Moon, 19, 20 269, 277 geochemistry Venus, 19, 23, 25 East-West Clearwater pair, 337 Acraman depression, 216 crater diameters Edenville, South Africa, 178 Beaverhead impact structure, 163 Earth, 57, 284 ejecta impact cratering, 73 Moon, 57 angle, 93 pseudotachylites, 186 crater moat, Manson Impact Structure, basin, 1, 5 geochronology 237, 239, 245, 247 composition, 93 Acraman depression, 219 craters horizon, Acraman, 209 Beaverhead impact structure, 163 complex, 107 Imbrium basin, 7, 13 geomechanical models, impact Mars, 19 Orientale basin, 7 cratering, 81 melt layer thickness, 103 Serenitatis basin, 7 Georgia, tektites, 142 simple, 105 velocity, 93 georginites, 139 See also specific craters Venus, 39, 40, 43, 47 glass, 114, 115, 126, 127, 157, 170, Cretaceous Elgygytgyn crater, Siberia, 128, 140, 172, 198 Early, 211 249 gneiss, 156, 157 Late, thrusting, 226, 227, 229 Enigma Ridge, Montana, 167, 231 gold, 178, 191 Manson Impact Structure, 237, 239, Eocene gold mineralization, 145 243, 244, 246 A1 Umchaimin depression, 259 Goldstone radar, 30 pseudotachylites, 163, 170, 171 Late, geochemical anomalies, 116 Gondwana, extinction event, 111 Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) boundary Late, impact event, 112, 143 grainstone, 112, 114 event, 49, 93, 111, 116, 186, epidote, 185, 230 Graneros Formation, 238, 244 237, 238, 243 Erickson Creek, Montana, 164, 172 granite, 52, 53, 156, 199, 200, 292, crinoid fragments, 114 Eucarro Dacite, 214 319 Crisium basin, Moon, 5, 61 europium, 136 granitoids, 178 cristobalite, 135 experimental studies, geochemical granodiorite, 141 cryptocrystalline, 166 aspects of impact cratering, 73 granodioritic intrusives, 141 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/chapter-pdf/958507/spe293-bm.pdf by guest on 02 October 2021 Index 345 granophyre, 267, 289, 290, 294, 297, illite, 112 Kloof gold mine, South Africa, 181, 300, 304, 307 ilmenite, 121, 159 282 granulites, metamorphic, 16 iltracataclasite, 231 Kolar schist, 337 graphite, 155, 156, 159 See also pseudotachylites Korolev basin, Moon, 4 gravity anomaly, 209 Imbrium basin, Moon, 2, 5, 6, 8, 15, KREEP, 1, 6, 11, 332, 338 Idaho, 225, 232 30, 335 volcanism, 11,16 gravity modeling, 65 age, 15 K/T boundary. See Cretaceous-Tertiary Gray Member, Onaping Formation, impact, 11, 12, 15, 17 boundary event 267, 268, 270, 272, 273, 289, impact angle model, 61 291, 294, 296, 300, 304, 307, impact basins, morphology, 2 L 308,
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