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Crater Name |
Location |
Latitude |
Longitude |
Diameter (km) |
Age (Ma)* |
Exposed |
Drilled |
Target Rock ** |
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South Australia |
S 32° 1' |
E 135° 27' |
90 |
~ 590 |
Y |
N |
C |
Chondrite |
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Australia |
S 20° 55' |
E 134 ° 50' |
~20 |
1640 - 600 |
Y |
N |
M |
- |
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Northern Territory |
S 22° 37' |
E 135° 12' |
0.17 |
.0540 ± 0.0015 |
Y |
N |
C |
IIAB |
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Western Australia |
S 23° 32' |
E 124° 45' |
9.00 |
< 60 |
Y |
N |
S |
- |
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Australia |
S 34° 43' |
E 139° 2' |
8.5 |
> 35 |
Y |
N |
C-Ms |
- |
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Western Australia |
S 27° 38' |
E 117° 17' |
0.02 |
~ 0.27 |
Y |
N |
C |
Stony Iron |
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Australia |
S 34° 37' |
E 139° 4' |
10 |
> 35 |
Y |
N |
C-Ms |
- |
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Northern Territory
|
S 16° 40'
|
E 136° 47'
|
6
|
> 545
|
Y
|
N
|
M |
- |
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Australia |
S 23° 59' |
E 121° 34' |
~19 |
< 508 |
Y |
N |
M |
- |
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Western Australia |
S 18° 20' |
E 126° 40' |
5.10 |
< 50 |
Y |
Y |
S |
- |
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Northern Territory |
S 23° 49' |
E 132° 19' |
22.00 |
142.5 ± 0.8 |
Y |
Y |
S |
- |
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Northern Territory |
S 13° 28' |
E 135° 2' |
3.00 |
< 1400 |
Y |
N |
S |
- |
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Northern Territory |
S 24° 34' |
E 133° 8' |
0.15 |
.0042 ± 0.0019 |
Y |
N |
S |
IIIAB |
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Northern Territory |
S 19° 56' |
E 133° 57' |
10.00 |
> 550 |
N |
N |
C-Ms |
- |
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Queensland |
S 18° 40' |
E 138° 39' |
18.00 |
> 515 |
Y |
N |
M |
- |
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Northern Territory |
S 12° 24' |
E 134° 3' |
1.60 |
150 ± 70 |
Y |
N |
S |
- |
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South Australia |
S 27° 57' |
E 135° 22' |
4.00 |
< 110 |
Y |
N |
S |
- |
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Western Australia |
S 17° 32' |
E 128° 25' |
7.00 |
< 360 |
Y |
N |
S |
- |
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Western Australia |
S 25° 52' |
E 120° 53' |
30.00 |
1630 ± 5 |
Y |
N |
M |
- |
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Western Australia |
S 16° 44' |
E 126° 5' |
13.00 |
> 570 |
Y |
N |
S |
- |
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Northern Territory |
S 15° 12' |
E 133° 35' |
25.00 |
646 ± 42 |
Y |
N |
M |
Achondrite |
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Queensland |
S 27° 7' |
E 142° 50' |
55.00 |
128 ± 5 |
N |
Y |
M |
- |
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Western Australia |
S 22° 58' |
E 125° 22' |
0.08 |
< 1 |
Y |
N |
S |
IIAB |
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Western Australia |
S 19° 10' |
E 127° 48' |
0.87 |
< 0.3 |
Y |
N |
S |
IIIAB |
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Western Australia |
S 26° 3' |
E 114° 39' |
40.00 |
364 ± 8 |
N |
Y |
M |
- |
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Western Australia |
S 27° 10' |
E 118° 50' |
30.00 |
~ 2000 |
Y |
N |
C |
- |
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* pre-1977 K-Ar, Ar-Ar and Rb-Sr ages recalculated using the decay constants of Steiger and Jager (1977) Ages in millions of years (Ma) before present.
** Abbreviations: C - Crystalline Target; C-Ms - Metasedimetary Target; M - Mixed Target (i.e.sedimentary strata overlying crystalline basement); S - sedimentary target (i.e. no crystalline rocks affected by the impact event). From Osinski. G. R., Spray J. G., and Grieve R. A. F. 2007. Impact melting in sedimentary target rocks: A synthesis. In The Sedimentary Record of Meteorite Impacts, Geological Society of America Special Paper. Editors: Evans K. Horton W., King D., Morrow J., and Warme J. Geological Society of America: Boulder, in press.
*** From Koeberl,C. Identification of meteoritic components in impactites. 1998, Koeberl, C. The Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry of Impacts. 2007 and PASSC Files.
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