Goat Paddock cryptoexplosion crater, Western Australia

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Aug 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980natur.286..704h&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 286, Issue 5774, pp. 704-706 (1980).

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Goat Paddock, a crater slightly over 5 km in diameter (18°20' S, 126°40'E), lies at the north edge of the King Leopold Range/Mueller Range junction in the Kimberley district, Western Australia (Fig. 1). It was noted as a geological anomaly in 1964 during regional mapping by the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics and the Geological Survey of Western Australia. The possibility of its being a meteorite impact crater has been discussed1, although this suggestion was subsequently ignored2. Two holes were drilled by a mining corporation in 1972 to test whether kimberlite underlay the structure. Here we report the findings of five days of reconnaissance in August 1979 which established that Goat Paddock is a cryptoexplosion crater containing shocked rocks and an unusually well exposed set of structural features.

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