The El’gygytgyn impact structure, Siberia: Impactites from a mid-size impact structure in volcanic target rocks : Die Elʼgygytgyn-Impaktstruktur, Sibirien: Impaktite in einer mittelgroßen Impaktstruktur in vulkanischem Zielgestein

• Main Author: Raschke, Ulli
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Freie Universität Berlin 2017
• Subjects: Impact crater; Russia; Shock metamorphism; Volcanism; El'gygytgyn; ICDP drill core; 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie555 Geowissenschaften Asiens; 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie552 Petrologie; Crater Lake; Inner Crater; Kamen’; Reine; Rissen; Russland; Sanden; Tonen; Chukotka; Tschukotka; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-6145; https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/1943

The El’gygytgyn crater in Chukotka (Russia) is one of the best-preserved complex impact structures, worldwide. At ca. 3.6 million years ago a projectile of probably chondritic composition hit into an at least several hundred-meter-thick sequence of different, predominantly felsic, volcanic rocks. Th...