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Kara- Kul
Crater Name |
Location |
Latitude |
Longitude |
Diameter (km) |
Age (Ma)* |
Exposed |
Drilled |
Target Rock** |
Bolide Type*** |
Kara-Kul |
Tajikistan |
N 39° 1' |
E 73° 27' |
52 |
< 5 |
Y |
N |
C |
- |
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References 1. Garvin, J. B., Grieve, R.A.F. and Schnetzler,C.C., Satellite remote sensing signatures of impact structures (abstract). Meteoritics, v. 30, pp. 509. 1995. 2. Gurov, E. P., Gurova, H.P., Rakitskaya, R.B. and Yamnichenko,A.Yu., The Karakul depression in Pamirs - the first impact structure in central Asia (abstract). Lunar and Planetary Science XXIV, pp. 591-592. 1993. 3. Gurov, E. P., Gurova, E. P., The Kurakul depression in the Pamirs - a reliable impact structure. Geologicheskii zhurnal, v. 6, pp. 53-64. 1993. 4. Gurov, E. P., Gurova, E.P., Rakitskaya, R.B. and Yamnichenko,A.Yu., The Karakul depression in the Pamirs: The first impact structure in central Asia. Doklady Akademii Nauk Ukrainskoi SSSR, 43 p. 1992. 5. Gurov, E. P., The Kara-Kul Lake depression in the Pamirs - A Probable Astrobleme (abstract). Eighth Soviet-American Microsymposium, pp. 37-39. 1988. 6. Gurov, E. P., Gurova, E P., Rakitskaya, R B., Jamnichenko, A J. u. and Monastyretsky,V I., The Kara-Kul Lake depression in the Pamirs-A probable astrobleme (abstract). Eighth Soviet-American Microsymposium, pp. 35-36. 1988. 7. Hörz, F., Ostertag, R and Rainey,D A., Bunte breccia of the Ries: Continuous deposits of large impact craters. Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, v. 21, pp. 1667-1725. 1983. 8. Koeberl, C., Sharpton, V.L., Murali, A.V. and Burke,K., Kara and Ust-Kara impact structures (USSR) and their relevance to the K/T boundary event. Geology, v. 18, pp. 50-53. 1990. 9. Koeberl, C., Sharpton, V.L., Harrison, T.M., Sandwell, D., Murali, A.V. and Burke,K., The Kara/Ust-Kara twin impact structure; A large-scale impact event in the Late Caretaceous. Global Catastrophes in Earth History, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 247, pp. 233-238. 1990.
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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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