Computer Science
Scientific paper
Jul 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992metic..27r.279p&link_type=abstract
Meteoritics, vol. 27, no. 3, volume 27, page 279
Computer Science
Scientific paper
The subsurface structure of the buried crater (4 km in diameter) at Kardla town has been studied by means of gravimetry and magnetometry and by drilling more than 300 boreholes in the crater and its surroundings (Puura and Suuroja, 1992). The deepest borehole, reaching 815 m, has revealed that the crater is 420 m deep and has a central peak up to 100 m high. Barely visible in the present-day topography, the crater proper is filled with Palaeozoic and Quaternary deposits and represents mostly low marshy land surrounded in places by a low ridge along the ring wall. In the buried sub-Quaternary bedrock relief, the crater proper occurs as a roundish depression bordered with two 10-30-m high horseshoe-shaped elevations above the buried ring wall. The crater was developed 455 Ma on the bottom of a shallow shelf sea in a composite target consisting of Middle and Lower Ordovician (20 m) and Cambrian (20 m) sedimentary rocks and underlying Precambrian rocks. In the subsurface structure of the crater site quite well preserved elements have been distinguished: in vertical section from the top--a) normally an approximately 100-m-thick cover of Ordovician sedimentary rocks hiding all the elements of the crater, b) strata of different kinds of allochthonous breccias filling the lower part of the crater proper and beds of fall-out breccias and conglomerates, sandstones and sandy limestones consisting of debris of reworked (in marine environments) fall-out breccia, and ring-wall rocks occurring in surroundings of the crater, and c) a body of autochthonous and subautochthonous breccias forming the bottom and the central peak of the crater and also remnants of its rim. Shocked rocks and minerals from autochthonous and allochthonous breccias have been revealed by light microscopy and by studies of fluid inclusions. Among the early Palaeozoic impact structures, Kardla crater is one of the best preserved. According to the recent biostratigraphical data, the Kardla crater is coeval to Tvaren and Lockne craters in central Sweden. The common origin of the three craters--a Middle Ordovician asteroid swarm--has been proposed (Lindstrom et al., 1992).
Puura Väino
Suuroja Kalle
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