Ages of Zhamanshin Crater Impactites and Projectile Tektites

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Jul 1993

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Meteoritics, vol. 28, no. 3, volume 28, page 372

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Ages, Impact Craters, Impact Melting, Tektites

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The Zhamanshin impact crater is the only one in which impactites have been found together with layered Muong Nong-type glasses and tektites-irghizites associated with microtektites. The K-Ar ages of these tektites vary from 0.69 to 5.2 m.y, while fission-track ages vary from 0.75 to 1.08 m.y. All geological data demonstrate a 10,000-year age of the impact event; this age coincides with the age of the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary [1]. A very young fission-track age of the Zhamanshin basic impactites was obtained [2]; however, these results were contested [3]. To eliminate the suggested high differences in thermal stability between basic and acidic Zhamanshin glasses, glass heating experiments were performed. The ~0.01-m.y. age (Table 1) of the basic impact glass collected from the deep bore holes shows that secondary heating and fission-track annealing by Sun-heating, fires, etc., must be excluded. The same age differences (1-2 orders of magnitude) were confirmed by thermoluminescence. Furthermore, in the Muong Nong-type Zhamanshinite, which is full of target rock inclusions, two different fission-track groups were recognized (Table 2). Therefore the Muong Nong-type Zhamanshinites are not local impactites, but instead represent a part of the projectile, as first suggested by J. O'Keefe [4]. In the Zhamanshin case, few tektites that fell opposite to impact explosion were partially remelted, while tektites that landed just after explosion are practically intact, like all other Australasian tektites [1,5]. Tables 1 and 2 appear here in the hard copy. References: [1] Izokh E. (1991) Soviet Geol. and Geophys., 32, 1-10. [2] Kashkarov L. et al. (1987) 2nd Intl. Conf. on Nat. Glasses, Prague, 199-202. [3] Koeberl C. and Storzer D., ibid., 207-213. [4] O'Keefe J. (1987) Meteoritics, 22, 219-228. [5] Izokh E. and Le duc An (1983) Meteoritika, 42, 158-169.

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