Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
May 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010m%26ps...45..759g&link_type=abstract
Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Volume 45, Issue 5, pp. 759-782.
Mathematics
Logic
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Scientific paper
The 1.4-1.6km thick Onaping Formation consists of a complex series of breccias and ``melt bodies'' lying above the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC) at the Sudbury impact structure. Based on the presence of shocked lithic clasts and various ``glassy'' phases, the Onaping has been described as a ``suevitic'' breccia, with an origin, at least in part, as fallback material. Recent mapping and a redefined stratigraphy have emphasized similarities and differences in its various vitric phases, both as clast types and discrete intrusive bodies. The nature of the Onaping and that of other ``suevitic'' breccias overlying impact melt sheets is reviewed. The relative thickness, internal stratigraphic and lithological character, and the relative chronology of depositional units indicate multiple processes were involved over some time in the formation of the Onaping. The Sudbury structure formed in a foreland basin and water played an essential role in the evolution of the Onaping, as indicated by a major hydrothermal system generated during its formation. Taken together, observations and interpretations of the Onaping suggest a working hypothesis for the origin of the Onaping that includes not only impact but also the interaction of sea water with the impact melt, resulting in repeated explosive interactions involving proto-SIC materials and mixing with pre-existing lithologies. This is complicated by additional brecciation events due to the intrusion of proto-SIC materials into the evolving and thickening Onaping. Fragmentation mechanisms changed as the system evolved and involved vesiculation in the formation of the upper two-thirds of the Onaping.
Ames Doreen E.
Artemieva Natalia
Grieve Richard A. F.
Morgan Joanna V.
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