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Steinheim
Crater Name |
Location |
Latitude |
Longitude |
Diameter (km) |
Age (Ma)* |
Exposed |
Drilled |
Target Rock** |
Bolide Type*** |
Steinheim |
Germany |
N 48° 41' |
E 10° 4' |
3.8 |
15 ± 1 |
Y |
Y |
S |
- |
View from S-rim near Sontheim, towards central uplift (a little left from the centre of the picture).
Village of Sontheim seen in the foreground. Photo Oct. 2000. Submitted by Harald Stehlik.
Aerial Photograph by A. Brugger
Digital Elevation model,
courtesy Peter Seidel
Photograph of central uplift, courtesy Peter Seidel
Digital Elevation model
courtesy Peter Seidel
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K., Ergeblnisse neuer Magnetfeld-Messungen im Gebiet der Impakt-Struktur Steinheimer Becken (in German). Jber. Mitt. oberrheim. geol. Ber., v. 66, pp. 153-160. 1984. 8. Grieve, R. A. F., The record of impact on Earth: Implications for a major Cretaceous/Tertiary impact event. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 190, pp. 25-37. 1982. 9. Groschopf, P., Reiff, W., The geological trail in the Steinheim basin. In: Reiff, W., ed., Guidebook to the Steinheim Basin Impact Crater, Geologisches Landesamt Baden-Wurttemberg, pp. 19-23. 1979. 10. Groschopf, P., Reiff, W., Das Steinheimer Becken als meteorkrater (in German). Meteorkrater Steinheimer Becken, Heimat-und Altertumsverein, pp. 19-28. 1976. 11. Groschopf, P., Reiff, W., It was a meteor impact: Results of drilling in the Steinheim basin (in German). Kosmos, v. 67, pp. 520-525. 1971. 12. Groschopf, P., Reiff, W., The Steinheim Basin - A comparison with the Ries (in German). Geologica Bavarica, v. 61, pp. 400-412. 1969. 13. Groschopf, V. P., Reiff, W., Recent results of examinations in the Steinheim basin (in German). Jh. Ver. vaterl. Naturkde. Wurttemberg, v. 121, pp. 155-168. 1966. 14. Gurov, E. P., Gurova, E. P., Impact structures on the Earth's surface (in Russian). Geologicheskii Zhurnal, v. 47, pp. 117-124. 1987. 15. Gurov, E. P., Gorova, E.P. and Rakitskaya,R.B., On the orientation of planar feature sets in quartz from rocks of explosion meteorite craters (in Russian). Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo mineralogicheskogo obshchestva, v. 108, pp. 578-584. 1979. 16. Heizmann, E. P. J., The tertiary fossil locality of the Steinheim basin. In: Reiff, W., ed., Guidebook to the Steinheim Basin Impact Crater, Geologisches Landesamt Baden-Wurttemberg, pp. 24-30. 1979. 17. Heizmann, E. P. J., Die palaeontologische Erforschung des Steinheimer Beckens (in German). Meteorkrater Steinheimer Becken, Heimat-und Alterumsverein, pp. 29-45. 1976. 18. Ivanov, B. A., Basilevsky, A. T., Meteorite craters (in Russian). Priroda, v. 10, pp. 23-35. 1985. 19. Khryanina, L. P., The structure of meteorite craters and their central uplifts (in Russian). Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, v. 238, pp. 195-198. 1978. 20. Masaitis, V. L., Danilin, A.N., Maschak, M.S., Raykhlin, A.I., Selivanovskaya, T.V. and Shadenkov,Ye.M., The Geology of Astroblemes (in Russian). Leningrad, Nedra, 231 p. 1980. 21. Masaitis, V. L., Some old meteoritic craters on the territory of the USSR (in Russian). Meteoritika, v. 33, pp. 64-68. 1974. 22. McHone J F., Dietz, R. S., Earth's multiple impact craters and astroblemes (abstract). Lunar and Planetary Science, v. XXIII, pp. 887-888. 1992. 23. Melosh, H. J., Stansberry, J., Doublet craters and the tidal disruption of binary asteroids (abstract). Meteoritics, v. 26, pp. 371-372. 1991. 24. Muller, S., Ansorge, J., Emter, D. and Greiner,G., Geomagnetic measurements in the Steinheim Basin region (in German). Oberheinische Geologische Abhandluugen, v. 18, pp. 33-46. 1969. 25. Reiff, V. W., Einschlagkrater kosmischer Korper auf der Schwabischen und Frankischen Alb (in German). Der Aufschluss, v. 25, pp. 369-380. 1974. 26. Reiff, W., Groschopf, P., Geology of the Steinheim basin impact crater. In: Reiff, W., ed., Guidebook to the Steinheim Basin Impact Crater, Geologisches Landesamt Baden-Wurttemberg, pp. 9-18. 1979. 27. Reiff, W., The Steinheim Basin-an impact structure. In: Roddy, D.J., Pepin, R.O. and Merrill, R.B., eds., Impact and Explosion Cratering, Pergamon Press, New York, pp. 309-320. 1977. 28. Roddy, D. J., Tabular comparisons of the Flynn Creek impact crater, United States, Steinheim impact crater, Germany, and Snowball explosion crater, Canada. Roddy, D.J., Pepin, R.A. and Merrill, R.B., eds., Impact and Explosion Cratering, Pergamon Press, New York, pp. 125-161. 1977. 29. Rutte, E., Alemonit - der Suevit-aquivalente impact-gesteinstyp der Sudlichen Frankenalb (in German). Die Naturwissenschaften, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, v. 59, p. 214. 1972. 30. Seeger, C. R., Magnetic investigation of Steinheim Basin, W. Germany (abstract). EOS, v. 53, p. 427. 1972. 31. Skala, R., Rohovec, J., Magic-angle-spinning nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of shocked limestones from the Steinheim crater. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, v 33, n 4, p A146-147. 1998. 32. Skala, R., Rohovec, J., Magic-angle-spinning nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of shocked limestones from the Steinheim crater, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. A146 - A147, Supplement. 1998. 33. Skala, R., Jakes, P., Effects of Impact Metamorphism in Limestones of the Steinhiem Crater, the X-Ray Diffraction Study, LPSC XXVIII, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, Part 3, pp 1331-2 (CD-ROM). 1997. 34. Skála, R., Jakes, P., Effects of impact metamorophism in limestones of the Steinheim crater - the x-ray diffraction study (abstract). Lunar and Planetary Science XXVIII, pp. 1331-1332. 1997. 35. Skála, R., Jakes, P., Shock-induced effects in Malmian limestsones from the Steinheim crater revealed by x-ray powder diffraction study (abstract). Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution,. 1997. 36. Storzer, D., Gentner, W. and Steinbrunn,F., Stopfenheim kuppel, Ries kessel and Steinheim basin: A triplet cratering event. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 13, pp. 76-78. 1971. 37. Zimmermann, R. A., Formation of shatter cones in the Steimheim basin. pp. 19-25. 1970.
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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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