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Sep 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998m%26ps...33.1053b&link_type=abstract
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 1053-1647
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The Marquez Dome, Leon County, Texas represents a 13 km diameter Paleocene/Eocene impact structure formed in largely unconsolidated sediments in a near-shore environment. The present study is an analysis of samples from cores taken from boreholes drilled on the edge of the central uplift and in the surrounding annular basin, respectively. The borehole drilled in the annular basin of the structure penetrated a sequence of interbedded sands, silts, and shales, typical of the stratigraphy of the surrounding area. In contrast, the borehole drilled on the edge of the central uplift penetrated material that is relatively homogeneous in chemical composition and texture and may represent a mixture of sand, silt, clay, and minor carbonate derived from deeper levels in the pre-impact stratigraphy. Veins containing pseudotachylitic breccias are not found and are not expected in this environment because low- strength target materials are not conducive to frictional melting. Similarly, the low strength and unconsolidated nature of these target materials are not conducive to the formation of other types of typical impact breccias, e.g., melt rocks or suevites. The absence of such lithologies results either from explosive ejection of these materials caused by the water- rich character of the target sediments or, more probably, from removal of these materials by deeper post-impact erosion than previously suggested. Planar deformation features (PDFs) were not found in quartz grains from any of these samples. The scarcity of quartz grains with PDFs, which have only been reported in rare impact breccias from the central uplift, and the large amount of vertical displacement indicated for the central uplift of this structure may also be a consequence of the low-strength of target materials.
Buchanan Paul C.
Koeberl Christian
Reid Arch M.
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