Red Wing Creek structure, North Dakota: Petrographical and geochemical studies, and confirmation of impact origin

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May 1996

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Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Vol. 31, p. 335-342 (1996)

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The 9 km diameter Red Wing Creek structure, North Dakota, is located within the oil-rich Williston Basin at 47°36'N and 103°33'W. Earlier geophysical studies indicated that this subsurface structure has a central uplift, surrounded by an annular crater moat, and a raised rim. Breccias were encountered during drilling between ˜2000 and 2800 m depth in the central uplift area, and the presence of shatter cone fragments in drill core samples was suggested to indicate an impact origin of the Red Wing Creek structure. We studied the petrographic and geochemical characteristics of samples of well cuttings from two boreholes at the center of the structure: the True Oil 22-27 Burlington Northern and True Oil 11-27 Burlington Northern wells. We found planar deformation features (PDFs) in quartz with up to three sets of different crystallographic orientations in sandstone- and siltstone-dominated samples from the True Oil 11-27 borehole. U-stage measurements of the crystallographic orientations of the PDFs showed the occurrence of the shock-characteristic (0001), {101bar3}, 101bar2}, (112bar2}, l01bar1}, and (516bar1} orientations, with a dominance of (0001) and (101bar3} orientations. The relative frequencies of the orientations indicate a shock pressure of at least 12-20 GPa. These results provide unambiguous evidence for shock metamorphism at Red Win Creek and confirm that the structure was formed by impact.

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