Composition of the Crystalline Basement and Shock Metamorphism of Crystalline and Sedimentary Target Rocks at the Haughton Impact Crater, Devon Island, Canada

• Published in: Meteoritics
• Main Authors: Metzler, A., Ostertag, R., Redeker, H.‐J., Stöffler, D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1988
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Environmental Science; Canada; Devon Island; Eleanor River
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1988.tb01282.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1945-5100.1988.tb01282.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1988.tb01282.x

Abstract— About 100 cobble‐sized samples collected from the surface of the central polymict breccia formation of Haughton impact crater, Canada, have been studied microscopically and chemically. Breccia clasts derived from the 1700 m deep Precambian basement consist of 13 rock types which can be gro...