THE EFFECTS OF HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT ON CRYSTALLINE ROCKS FROM THE HAUGHTON IMPACT STRUCTURE, DEVON ISLAND, CANADA

• Main Author: Singleton, Alaura C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2010
• Subjects: Haughton impact structure Devon Island Shock metamorphism Shock effects Shocked zircon Raman spectroscopy; Canada; Devon Island
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/digitizedtheses/4635; https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/digitizedtheses/article/8450/viewcontent/2024_03_11_Effects_of_Impact_on_Crystalline_Rocks_OCR.pdf

The Earth is constantly being struck by objects from space, which can create enormous pressures and temperatures on a limited area over a very short period of time creating conditions unlike those created by any other geological process. The resulting “shock†metamorphism can occur at pressures t...