Lunar impact features and processes

GR Osinski, HJ Melosh… - … in Mineralogy and …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This chapter is dedicated to H. Jay Melosh who tragically passed away during this endeavor.
From his earliest publications on the concept of acoustic fluidization, to the publication of his …

[HTML][HTML] Impact Earth: A review of the terrestrial impact record

GR Osinski, RAF Grieve, L Ferrière, A Losiak… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, it has become increasingly clear that the impact of interplanetary
bodies on other planetary bodies is one of the most ubiquitous and important geological …

The first day of the Cenozoic

SPS Gulick, TJ Bralower, J Ormö… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Highly expanded Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary section from the Chicxulub peak
ring, recovered by International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)–International Continental …

Density current origin of a melt-bearing impact ejecta blanket (Ries suevite, Germany)

S Siegert, MJ Branney, L Hecht - Geology, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Melt-bearing clastic deposits (suevites) at impact craters have traditionally been regarded as
plume fallout deposits. We present new field, textural, and chemical evidence that the …

Formation of the crater suevite sequence from the Chicxulub peak ring: A petrographic, geochemical, and sedimentological characterization

P Kaskes, SJ de Graaff, JG Feignon, T Déhais… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This study presents a new classification of a∼ 100-m-thick crater suevite sequence in the
recent International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)-International Continental Scientific …

Diverse lithologies and alteration events on the rim of Noachian‐aged Endeavour crater, Meridiani Planum, Mars: In situ compositional evidence

DW Mittlefehldt, R Gellert, S VanBommel… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We report the results of geological studies by the Opportunity Mars rover on the Endeavour
Crater rim. Four major units occur in the region (oldest to youngest): the Matijevic …

Are large sulfur isotope variations biosignatures in an ancient, impact-induced hydrothermal Mars analog?

CJ Tino, EE Stüeken, G Arp, ME Böttcher, SM Bates… - Astrobiology, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Discrepancies have emerged concerning the application of sulfur stable isotope ratios as a
biosignature in impact crater paleolakes. The first in situ δ34S data from Mars at Gale crater …

Impact cratering: the south American record–Part 1

AP Crósta, WU Reimold, MAR Vasconcelos, N Hauser… - Geochemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
The Earth's impact record is known to be rather limited in both time and space. There are ca.
190 impact structures currently known on Earth, representing a minor fraction of all the …

Explosive interaction of impact melt and seawater following the Chicxulub impact event

GR Osinski, RAF Grieve, PJA Hill, SL Simpson… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The impact of asteroids and comets with planetary surfaces is one of the most catastrophic,
yet ubiquitous, geological processes in the solar system. The Chicxulub impact event, which …

The “suevite” conundrum, Part 2: Re‐examining the type locality at the Ries impact structure, Germany

GR Osinski, RAF Grieve - Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
One of the most common types of allochthonous impactite produced in hypervelocity impact
events is impact breccia that contains melt particles. In numerous terrestrial hypervelocity …