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Title:
Impact-related dike breccia lithologies in the ICDP drill core Yaxcopoil-1, Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico
Authors:
Wittmann, A.; Kenkamnn, T.; Schmitt, R. T.; Hecht, L.; Stöffler, D.
Affiliation:
AA(Institut für Mineralogie, Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany ), AB(Institut für Mineralogie, Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany), AC(Institut für Mineralogie, Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany), AD(Institut für Mineralogie, Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany), AE(Institut für Mineralogie, Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany)
Publication:
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 39, No. 6, p.931-954
Publication Date:
06/2004
Origin:
M&PS
DOI:
10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb00938.x
Bibliographic Code:
2004M&PS...39..931W

Abstract

Petrographic descriptions of three dike breccia lithologies from drill core Yaxcopoil-1 (Yax-1) are presented. They occur within allochthonous units of displaced sedimentary megablocks of the Chicxulub impact structure. The suevitic dike breccias are the uppermost dike lithology. They contain melt rock particles and melt injections into the dike groundmass. Shock features occur ubiquitously and indicate a strong thermal annealing. Flow textures suggest a highly energetic emplacement process, possibly during the excavation stage as a ground-surge related deposit. The impact melt rock dikes are present in a strongly brecciated megablock interval as flow textured, anastomozing veinlets of impact melt rock that were altered to clay minerals. The melt impregnated a dolomitic host rock, indicating a low viscosity and, thus, high initial temperatures. Brecciation of the impact melt rock dikes occurred while they were still below the glass transition temperature, suggesting that dynamic conditions prevailed shortly after the emplacement process. Major element data indicates that the impact melt rock dikes differ in composition from the homogenized impact melt rock of Chicxulub. This could point to an emplacement during the late compression or early excavation stages of cratering. The clastic polymict dike breccias are coeval with pervasive brittle fracturing of the host rocks. They bear clasts including some crystalline basement and possible melt rock particles in a fine-grained dolomite matrix with turbulent flow textures. Fabric and texture indicate a granular flow at ambient pressures. Such conditions could be envisaged for the excavation phase while the transient cavity grew and fractures opened.
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