Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011m%26ps...46..574s&link_type=abstract
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Volume 46, Issue 4, pp. 574-586.
Physics
Scientific paper
The petrographic investigation of a shocked, chalcedony-, quartzine-, and quartz-bearing allochthonous chert nodule (probably Upper Cretaceous) recovered from surficial wadi gravels in the inner parts of the central uplift of the approximately 6 km in diameter Jebel Waqf as Suwwan impact structure, Jordan, reveals new potential shock indicators in microfibrous-spherulitic silica, in addition to well-established shock-metamorphic effects in coarser crystalline quartz. The microcrystalline chert groundmass exhibits a macroscopic dendritic and suborthogonal fracture pattern commonly associated with thin "recrystallization bands" that intersect the pre-existing diagenetic chert fabric. Fibrous aggregates of quartzine spherulites in chalcedony-quartzine-quartz veinlets locally have a shattered appearance and show conspicuous "curved fractures" perpendicular to the quartzine fiber direction (and parallel to [0001]) that commonly trend subparallel to planar fractures (PFs) in neighboring shocked quartz. Quartz exhibits PFs, feather features (FFs), and mainly single sets of planar deformation features (PDFs) parallel to the basal plane (0001) (Brazil twins) and, rarely, additional PDFs parallel to {101¯3}. Shock petrography indicates shock pressures of ≥10 GPa and high shock-induced differential stresses that affected the chert nodule. The internal crosscutting relationships of primary diagenetic and impact-related deformational features together with shockpressure estimates suggest that the curved fractures across quartzine spherulites might represent specific (low- to medium-pressure) shock-metamorphic features, possibly in structural analogy to basal plane PFs in quartz. The dendritic-suborthogonal fractures in the microcrystalline chert groundmass and recrystallization bands are likely related to impact-induced shear deformation and recrystallization, respectively, and cannot be considered as definite shock indicators.
Buchner Elmar
Khirfan Maria
Khoury Hani
Reimold Wolf Uwe
Salameh Elias
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