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Nov 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998m%26ps...33.1317g&link_type=abstract
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 1317-1333.
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The about 400-Ma-old Ilyinets impact structure was formed in Precambrian basement of the Ukrainian Shield and is now mostly covered by Quaternary sediments. Various impact breccias and melts are exposed in its southern section. The crater is a complex structure with a central uplift that is surrounded by an annular deposit of breccias and melt rocks. In the annulus, brecciated basement rocks are overlain by up to 80 m of glass-poor suevitic breccia, which is overlain (and partly intercalated) by glass-rich suevite with a thickness of up to 130 m. Impact melt rocks occur within and on top of the suevites, in some cases in the form of devitrified bomb-shaped impact glass fragments. We have studied the petrographic and geochemical characteristics of 31, mostly shocked, target rock samples (granites, gneisses, and one amphibolite) obtained from drill cores within the structure, and impact breccias and melt rock samples from drill cores and surface exposures. Multiple sets of planar deformation features (PDFs) are common in quartz, K-feldspar, and plagioclase of the shocked target rocks. The breccias comprise more or less devitrified impact melt with shocked clasts. The impact melt rocks ("bombs") show abundant vesicles and, in some cases, glass is still present as brownish patches and schlieren. All impact breccias (including the melt rocks) are strongly altered and have significantly elevated K contents and lower Na contents than the target rocks. The alteration could have occurred in an impact-induced hydrothermal system. The bomb-shaped melt rocks have lower Mg and Ca contents than other rock types at the crater. Only minor enrichments of siderophile element contents (e.g., Ni, Co, Ir) in impact melt rocks compared to target rocks were found.
Gurov Eugene P.
Koeber Christian
Reimold Wolf Uwe
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