The Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island, Canada: Setting and History of Investigations

• Published in: Meteoritics
• Main Author: Robertson, P. Blyth
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1988
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Environmental Science; Canada; Devon Island; Fuller
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1988.tb01280.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1945-5100.1988.tb01280.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1988.tb01280.x

Abstract— Although mapped initially as a piercement dome, subsequent discovery of shock metamorphism in clasts of an impact breccia, shatter cones in outcrops of uplifted target rocks and morphological and geophysical characteristics consistent with a complex crater, confirmed a meteorite impact ori...