Impact Melting in Sedimentary Target Rocks?

Details Impact Melting in Sedimentary Target Rocks? Impact Melting in Sedimentary Target Rocks?

Feb 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003icbg.conf...59o&link_type=abstract

Impact Cratering: Bridging the Gap Between Modeling and Observations, p. 59

Mathematics

Impact Velocity, Melting, Mathematical Models, Targets, Sedimentary Rocks, Ground Truth, Craters, Computer Techniques

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Sedimentary rocks are present in the target sequence of approx. 70% of the world's known impact structures. One of the outstanding questions in impact cratering studies is: do sedimentary rocks undergo impact melting? This question cannot be addressed through experimentation in the laboratory, which is limited to impact velocities generally below that required for wholesale melting. Numerical and computer-based modeling may offer some important information, however, as Pierazzo et al. note, "there is no good model for melt production from impact craters in sedimentary targets". Studies of naturally shocked rocks, therefore, offer the only true ground-truth data on the response of sedimentary rocks to impact. We have carried out detailed field and analytical studies of naturally shocked sedimentary rocks that will hopefully provide constraints for future modeling.

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