Sudbury project (University of Muenster-Ontario Geological Survey): Summary of results - an updated impact model

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Dec 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992lmip.conf....5a&link_type=abstract

In Lunar and Planetary Inst., International Conference on Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution p 5-6 (SEE N93-10112 0

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Breccia, Geochemistry, Geological Surveys, Impact Melts, Meteorite Craters, Petrography, Stratigraphy, Structural Properties (Geology), Igneous Rocks, Isotopes, Mineralogy, Ontario, Shatter Cones, Volcanology

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In 1984 the Ontario Geological Survey initiated a research project on the Sudbury structure (SS) in cooperation with the University of Muenster. The project included field mapping (1984-1989) and petrographic, chemical, and isotope analyses of the major stratigraphic units of the SS. Four diploma theses and four doctoral theses were performed during the project (1984-1992). Specific results of the various investigations are reported. Selected areas of the SS were mapped and sampled: Footwall rocks; Footwall breccia and parts of the sublayer and lower section of the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC); Onaping Formation and the upper section of the SIC; and Sudbury breccia and adjacent Footwall rocks along extended profiles up to 55 km from the SIC. All these stratigraphic units of the SS were studied in substantial detail by previous workers. The most important characteristic of the previous research is that it was based either on a volcanic model or on a mixed volcanic-impact model for the origin of the SS. The present project was clearly directed toward a test of the impact origin of the SS without invoking an endogenic component. In general, our results confirm the most widely accepted stratigraphic division of the SS. However, our interpretation of some of the major stratigraphic units is different from most views expressed. The stratigraphy of the SS and its new interpretation is given as a basis for discussion.

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