The allochthonous polymict breccia layer of the Haughton impact crater, Devon Island, Canada

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Breccia, Impact Melts, Meteorite Craters, Mineralogy, Canada, Grain Size, Lithology, Meteoritic Composition, Stratigraphy

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This paper considers the 90-m-thick breccia layer that covers the central depression of the Haughton impact structure. Geological setting of the breccia is discussed, and the results on the modal composition, grain-size characteristics, and the degree of shock metamorphism for the grain-size ranges 10-50, 1-10, 0.03-1, and less than 0.03 mm are presented. The results of this study confirm earlier interpretation of this allochthonous polymict breccia as the erosional remnant of a breccia lens partially filling a complex impact crater with a central uplift. The data obtained in this study should help to set boundary conditions for the geometry of the excavation cavity and the transient crater.

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