Impacts are instantaneous events. Texture of sedimentary rocks in this lab will be taken to indicate origin or type of sediment found in the rock. And of course there's the lake itself. Some of this tiny debris makes it to Earth's surface and is mixed with soil and ocean sediment. There are some interesting erosional signs in this observation, which will make for a good comparison with other intracrater fans and fluvial sedimentary landforms. The crater was created instantly when a 50m, 150,000-ton meteor slammed into the desert about 50,000 years ago. Image credit: NASA. Southern cratered highlands. Four minerals that need to be identified are quartz, halite, gypsum and calcite. Textures are based primarily on crystal size. Elastic rebound and collapse cause the excavation trajectories to go into reverse in a way, and the rock masses tend to move upwards and centripetally thus, accompanied by large-scale downfaulting, largely backfilling the transient crater. 21. Clastic sedimentary rocks contain clasts. Near the footprint in the above picture, you can see many small "pock-marks." These marks are the craters made by microscopic particles that hit the surface moving at speeds of several kilometers per second. Moreover, the principles of superposition and cross-cutting relations indicate that a feature which at least partly covers another feature is the younger. 14. April 8, 2015. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars would have formed last, when the Sun was far calmer. American Geological Institute, Alexandria, VA, 788 p. Igneous rocks are rocks that solidify from molten material (magma). <> Image from the Mars Global Surveyor, courtesy of the Lunar and Planetary Institute. 17. Porphyritic texture is composed of crystals of two different sizes. Since tectonic plate movements has erased much of Earths crater record, the answers to the lingering questions about crater formation and timelines lie in the exquisitely preserved craters on the moon. Aphanitic texture is a fine grained texture but the crystals are too small to see. This icy bedrock is potentially unstable, and some impact craters may relax or fade away to unrecognition due to water ice's volatility and weak but strongly temperature dependent rheology. What process do you think formed Reuyl crater (marked B on Figure 5)? Impact basins are very large impact structures that are more than 300 kilometers (185 miles) in diameter. Tycho meteorite crater on the Moon. Although craters look like imprints of a giant fist smashing the ground inward, impact shock waves have the opposite effect, which planetary scientists divide into three phases. Sometimes, impact structures are distinguished from impact craters by their weak morphological signature compared with a true crater. It is colder inside some craters near the lunar poles than it is on the surface of Pluto (25K, or -415F). Source: Google Earth. The impact sprays material ejecta out in all directions. endobj 13. Describe the appearance and orientation of the windstreaks. The compression stage of crater formation involves that initial exchange of energy between the projectile and the impact area. Image courtesy of V. L. Sharpton through the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Fig. [Hint: use the principle of cross-cutting relations to justify your answer.] These volcanoes erupted repeatedly over many millions of years, growing higher with each lava flow. "It is difficult to say exactly . Small craters often are simple bowl-shaped depressions. Apart from the distinct role rarefactions waves play in the formation of the excavation flow field, they are especially relevant geologically. As mentioned above, the composition of most igneous rocks can be identified using this system, formally known as the Color Index. Sedimentary rocks are rocks composed of sediment. Not a model for impact crater formation. Thus, if a valley cuts through a crater, the crater must be older. On impact of a cosmic body, shock waves start from the contact point and propagate into both the underground target rocks and into the impactor. The crater is about 1.2 kilometers (a little more than 0.5 miles) across and 200 meters (650 feet) deep. January 2014; Dark colors, such as black and dark brown, indicate a mafic or ultramafic composition. Halite is common table salt and is most easily identified by taste. !#\k]k)3f}2Xyb=Np. The structure of large craters is more complex because they collapse, forming terraces, central peaks, central pits, or multiple rings. 17. Large impact basins are also found on other planets, including Mars and Mercury. Explain how you can tell. Non-foliated textures are identified by their lack of planar character. 20. Image courtesy of D. Roddy through the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Material Type: Lab; Class: Sci Thought/Processes I; Subject: Honors Program; University: George Mason University; Term: Unknown 1989; Scratch the unknown mineral with a known hardness to determine which mineral is harder. This crater is believed to have formed when an asteroid struck Earth 65 million years ago. This new crater candidate with fluvial morphological units preserved on the floor lead to understand the nature of fluvial processes . Different crystalline structures, or how the atoms and molecules are arranged, result in different minerals. 3. <> Which of the four geologic processes do you think formed this channel? Gypsum is relatively soft (Hardness =2) and can be scratched easily with a fingernail. The impactor is shattered into small pieces and may melt or vaporize. 10. Justify your answer. Note the remarkable difference to the crater-projectile ratio in Fig. Meteor Crater is 1.2km wide and 175m deep. Explain why you believe the way you do. Coal is usually obvious to most students even though few people seem to have ever actually examined it up close. 7 0 obj Hb```,6 u!b`0pT 9, ",8FRc g3g86y~D#*}So ". Source: https://news.discovery.com/earth/how-are-craters-formed.html, Center for Planetary Exploration (CPEx) Opens at Stony Brook University. Craters most often are circular. b. Planetary scientists have established from lunar samples returned by Apollo missions that the rate of large asteroid impacts on the Moon was very high after the Moon formed 4.5 billion years ago and then declined rapidly between 3.8 billion and 3.5 billion years ago. 3. (Viking MDIM mosaic 211-5360) 1. e. 3 strongly resemble meteorite impact craters exhibiting a central uplift like the Tycho impact crater on Earths moon (Fig. 5 0 obj Earth and the other planets are constantly bombarded by tiny debris from space, much of which burns up in the atmosphere. 6. Although impacts of extraterrestrial objects onto the Earth's surface occur at hypervelocity (high speed) and involve much more kinetic energy than any impacts in a classroom lab might do, such a lab can be worthwhile. Reuyl, an early Hesperian crater, provides evidence for diverse fluvial events; Alluvial fans, channels, orthogonally superposed deposits, fan deposits with incised channels, and large deposits suggest fluvial activity; Two sinuous ridges associated with the alluvial fan on the crater floor are the oldest features of fluvial origin 4 0 obj Metamorphic Rock Identification ChartTEXTUREFOLIATIONCOMPOSITIONTYPEPARENT ROCKROCK NAMEFoliatedslatymicaRegionalMudstoneSlatephylliticquartz, mica, chloriteRegionalMudstonePhylliteschistosemica, quartzRegionalSlateSchistschistoseamphibole, plagioclaseRegionalBasalt or GabbroAmphibolitegneissic bandingfeldspar, mica, quartzRegionalSchistGneissNon-FoliatedcarbonContact or RegionalBituminous CoalAnthracite Coalquartz, rock fragmentsContact or RegionalConglomerateMetaconglomeratecalciteContact or RegionalLimestoneMarblequartzContact or RegionalSandstoneQuartzite Mars Surface Introduction In many ways Mars is similar to Earth. a depression formed by an impact (as of a meteorite). 18. The three stages of impact crater formation. HYPERLINK "../Honors227/Images/10_3.jpg"Figure 3. This of course is primarily a matter of energy related with the projectiles mass (and therefore density) and impact velocity, and, subordinately, also a matter of the target lithology. 12. T U ; = B } ~ x z h_X B* CJ ph h_X B* ph So far we have considered the impact of a solid object like a stony or iron meteorite. 10. These are impact craters, each of which was formed when an asteroid or comet collided with the Moon's surface. Scientists record the size and number of impact craters and how eroded they are to determine the ages and histories of different planetary surfaces. Reuyl Crater Central Peak, as seen by HiRISE. In the upper part, the flow field enables the rock masses to escape as ejecta from the growing excavation cavity. 19.) Consider the relationship between Ma'adim Vallis and Gusev, the 160 km . On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Earth has weather, water, and plants. Quite a few interesting questions may remain open. Craters can be used to determine the relative ages of Martian surface materials; in general, older surfaces have craters which are more numerous, larger, and more degraded than those on young surfaces. )y&bS_jW+|z6ADS FZM+q&+rVim#yHNO 8tU#T.f-[`of=XzuEvr+Ll[fXt 7; UGs@wc 6 0 obj Fig. The twoprojectile produced a pair of rimmed simple, bowl-shaped craters quite similar to the dual craters from Fig. 2) we may think it somehow formed from an identical mechanism. * Definitions simplified or modified from Bates, R.L. These are not visible to the unaided eye. Not commonly seen in most introductory lab samples.FractureBreakage of a mineral, not along planes of weakness in the crystral structure.Examine the mineral for areas where the mineral is broken. What process do you think formed Reuyl crater (marked B on Figure 11.5)? stream 03.04.10. Different chemical compositions result in different minerals. The largest impact basin on the Moon is 2500 kilometers (1550 miles) in diameter and more than 12 kilometers (7 miles) deep. Are the craters you observe older or younger than the valleys? Typically, materials from space hit Earth at about 20 kilometers (slightly more than 12 miles) per second. Moreover, the polar caps contain some water ice. Impact shock waves are characterized by an instantaneous onset of extreme pressures (up to the order of megabars) and extreme temperatures (up to 10,000 degrees or more) on release of the pressure. Coquina and limestone are both composed of calcite. {u/ 8`&_@ug,jbAM$[$oPocqM9K'5u"gY2;!1Nb$NfMc,cl9{=ZY6m#v]b1$m|"^K)Ks7q~B-=Cdl/)q&eHdiT) %Iwd`y\*/[Cr|R>/cRN]UyYIcF8`wiaV>bzw]'b+DZbV;zdge4e=00%9)q@B|~1QV, V=~ERZRm -Y 6) Consider the relationship between Ma'adim Vallis and Gusev, the 160 km diameter crater marked C. The larger size gives the foliation a slighly shiny appearance. Very large impact craters greater than 300 kilometers (185 miles) across are called impact basins. Anthracite coal is generally shiny in appearance and breaks with a conchoidal fracture (broken glass also shows this type of fracture). In either case, the conditions of a hypervelocity impact and propagation of shock waves are crucial for the formation of these geologically extraordinary structures. Foliated textures show four types of foliation. We see that shock wave and rarefaction wave propagation are essential in the formation of a meteorite impact crater. The ejecta of the larger crater is different from that of the smaller crater. 1}bRX12AMAWQe'=u"tP]]!|SdX"uk3&~m?B?_OuG+ s6S x> PY4/'!~OFZUT=ayZBxY`=j 0 "(_Cye@2UGDkA;$V+ "+.m Color is often an indicator of the composition of a rock or mineral and can be effectively used to identify the composition of most igneous rocks. The large circular dark areas in the image are impact basins, created as huge impactors struck the Moon. The result is a "bubbly" appearance. Which is larger, and by how much? Spreading outwards from the point of contact, compressive shock waves are permanently reflected from the free target surface as tensile rarefaction waves of comparable intensities and, like the shock waves, are propagated downwards. The faster the incoming impactor, the larger the crater. 7. This impact is thought to have triggered fires and tsunamis and created a cloud of dust and water vapor that enveloped the globe in a matter of days, resulting in fluctuating global climate changes. 23. How can you tell? XX=S;K]3:V-j ,bxHeM?qaZ] R*Jf]x-Tfymoy{!TX&THH9C]NXg 11. Fig. Fig. How looks an impact crater that was produced by an oblique impact? 16 0 obj On relieving of pressure, there is an elastic rebound at the crater floor now hosting a layer of brecciated rocks. This will result in the formation of central uplifts and ring systems, and we may now refer to these as central-uplift or central-peak craters, peak-ring craters or multi-ring craters establishing the group of so-called complex impact craters or complex impact structures (Fig. How big, e.g. Few, if any, crystals will be visible. Reuyl, Dirk. A good example is the mineral plagioclase. Impact craters are relatively shallow, so these "dents" in Earth's rocky . The white material comprising the central peak is glass microbeads. Earth Rocks Introduction Minerals are defined as naturally occurring, inorganic, solids with a definite chemical composition and a regular, internal crystalline structure. Halite has a hardness of 2.5 and cannot be scratched by a fingernail (unpolished fingernail). Foliated textures show a distinct planar character. Valley systems cut through many of the cratered terrains of Mars and have characteristics analogous to water-cut valleys on Earth. Like the other planets, Earth formed . must an impactor be to produce a given size impact structure? Compare the size of Ius Chasma and its tributaries to the size of the Grand Canyon of Arizona (approximate length=175 km and maximum width=29km). Such a high-speed impact produces a crater that is approximately 20 times larger in diameter than the impacting object. Gosses Bluff (Tnorala) Pingualuit Crater. endobj The contact and compression stage of impact cratering. Hailstones and even raindrops may produce on harder ground small craters as well (Fig. Larger, more forceful impact events will form complex craters in which the rock at the center of the crater rebounds from the downward pressure of the shock wave and uplifts into a mound-like formation. As on the Moon, Mercury, Venus, and most of the outer planet satellites, impact craters are found on the surface of Mars. Justify your answer. Sometimes the force of the impact is great enough to melt some of the local rock. Tswaing Crater. A mystery concerning water on Mars is "Where did it go?" Consider the relationship between Ma'adim Vallis and Gusev, the 160 km diameter . 4. The crater retention age on the ejecta of the unnamed crater is 3.7 Ga which suggests that the crater likely formed during the Noachian-Hesperian period boundary or earlier. -yM. Plagioclase is a member of the feldspar group, but there is more than one type of plagioclase. Albite and anorthite are two examples. The force of the impacts create circular structures with raised rimmed wall; spatters of mud and smaller circular secondary craters may be seen (Fig. Whereas volcanic craters arise from deep inside the planet, impact craters originate in outer space. 22. Media Policy Such outbursts can be violent enough that once the eruption is over, the volcano collapses in on its empty vacant magma chamber and forms a caldera, or volcanic crater. Hailstone craters. 1. Although the resulting depression may bear some resemblance to the hole that results from throwing a pebble into a sandbox, the . endobj Name _____ COSMORPHOLOGY - May 2009 Geologic landforms Purpose: By studying aerial photographs you will learn to identify different kinds of geologic features based on their different morphologies and learn the processes involved in their formation. In what direction did the water flow? Justify your answer. Image source: NASA. 11 0 obj A peak ring crater (Clearwater West, Canada, 32 km diameter). endobj Below you will find a chart which defines the physical properties and provides the means for determining the physical property of a mineral sample. In concurrence with this result, the crater age . Therefore, a simplified system is used based on texture and composition. Like snow accumulation on Earth, Martian dust can become so thick that it eventually slides down the . Heavy elements began sinking past the oceans and magma toward the center of the planet. endobj Location: 24S, 245W. Therefore, older surfaces have more impact craters. 19. The Vredefort impact crater, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Johannesburg, South Africa, was formed just a little over 2 billion years ago. During an impact, buried material is ejected while outward pressure pushes the rock at the crater's edge upward, forming a rim. Justify your answer. Then, elongated craters may be formed, and the ejecta blanket may considerably deviate from a circular symmetry. Fig. They concluded this from the already mentioned prevailing frequency of oblique impact trajectories leading in the majority, in their opinion, to craters of elliptical shape. During the excavation phase, the massive shock wave causes the projectile to simultaneously melt and vaporize, spewing plumes of searing hot rock vapor miles high into the atmosphere. Students, staff, and faculty at Stony Brook University are hard at work gathering data on the history of Mars. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This is clearly different from normal, endogenetic geological processes such as volcanism, earthquakes, tsunamis or other tectonic events. d. Maadim Vallis is the channel in the southeast part of the photograph, marked C. Which of the four processes do you think formed Maadim Vallis? Compare Apollinaris Patera (marked A on Figure 5) to Olympus Mons (Figure 1). Ma'adim Vallis (labeled C) is the channel in the southeastern part of the image. Justify your answer? It was declared a national monument by President Calvin Coolidge in 1924. Diameter 290 km. (Viking MDIM Volume 4) 15. Explain why you believe this is so. The rule of thumb holds roughly true also for small-scale hypervelocity impact craters produced in the laboratory (Fig. Explain your answer. <> The now existing bowl-shaped structure surrounded by an uplifted rim and a blanket of ejected material is termed the transient crater obviously indicating a continuation of the impact cratering process arriving in the modification stage. Pegmatitic texture is composed of very large crystals (larger than 2-3 cm). 5. Multi-ring basin Mona Lisa on Venus. <> Earth continues to be a target and contrary to popular opinion, the Moon does not act as a meteoroid deflector (it is too small and too distant!). Computing these vectors (direction and magnitude) for each point in the subsurface, a field of excavation flow with arcuate trajectories as shown in the sketch above (Fig. Metaconglomerate is composed of pebbles and gravel that have been flattened due to directed pressure. : Cf Cf @U ' 8 L D # 8 ^ r ( u u u # # # # # # # $ $ r' -# u u -# B# u" u" u" # u" # u" u" w" " pW 0 {" " X# 0 # " ( ( " ( " l u Z @ u" 4 C l u u u -# -# ! Sometimes lots of particles strike at one time, creating meteor showers. endobj The Measurer should measure from the ground to how high the rock is, and ask the Recorder to write down that height under the heading "Meteor 1, Trial 1". The high-speed impact of a large meteorite compresses, or forces downward, a . 9). The image to the left is a very simple, bowl shaped crater on the Moon and is typical of small craters that have formed relatively recently. Explain your answer. The crater has been extensively eroded, but is believed to originally have been as much as 300 kilometers (185 miles) across. Fig. The dark brown to black color is the most obvious characteristic. Measure and record the diameter of Olympus Mons. | Fig. Both are black in color, and is composed of carbon. 5. 8. Complex craters are large craters with complicated features. It has a raised rim around the edge, and nice, sharp features. This process is comparable to the transition from alluvial fan to debris flow-like evidence reported in the Harris crater, . A complex crater in the northern region of Mars. A good example is diamond and graphite. More about these experiments can be read on the Chiemgau impact website where a hypervelocity impact video may be downloaded. endstream Mars, like the Earth, has seasons. 7. (a) Geomorphic map of Reuyl crater. However, this is not a sensible practice in a large lab with many different people handling the samples. The diameter of the each miniature craters is 5 10 mm. Mafic compositions are poor in silica, but rich in iron (Fe) and magnesium (Mg). Meteorite impact spallation: from mega- to micro-scale, The suevite layer outcrop near Fuentes Calientes, Rubielos de la Crida impact basin (Spain), Selection of other publications of interest, New article on the geology of the Iberian System, Understanding the Impact Cratering Process: a Simple Approach, Making impacts: experimental hypervelocity crater generation, Earth Impact Database - Database of Earth Impact Structures - Meteorite Craters, Impact structure and meteorite crater glossary. Check Pages 101-150 of Planetary_Geology in the flip PDF version. Lava later flowed across the low floors of the basins, giving them a darker, smoother appearance than the surrounding, brighter highlands. It has a summit caldera some 80 km wide. The four major geologic processes (gradation, impact cratering, tectonism, and volcanism) each produce distinct landforms. endobj Limestone may or may not contain fossils. <>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 17 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 1>> And again, one might suspect a process similar to rock tossed into mud. -Un+iJiO&Jsg/kO(*g!FcyvOC&t+3I*cm_5{`7=!MhW&A\8(}HOf%_Pp)G)d:owWt..L HYPERLINK "../Honors227/Images/10_4.jpg"Figure 4. FZ@g(.T*+cv|JfhPR. eA@QBeDT_g[HDJX9D |! ~.5Svs)-b[E9it 9u{-rJ:Lcl F9"8 t(L)Npg:zS}"V|9)4ahyQ!rYkMd8{AY$ eCD:2BRPm-974WY\. Chemical sedimentary rocks are identified by identifying the mineral from which they are composed. Erosion is the dominant geologic process acting on Mars today. Near the Lunar and Planetary Institute ) and can be identified are quartz, halite gypsum. 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