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1. Fig. The impact velocity was 1250 m/s, and the target (flour) sound /seismic velocity is estimated to have been about 100 m/s. -Un+iJiO&Jsg/kO(*g!FcyvOC&t+3I*cm_5{`7=!MhW&A\8(}HOf%_Pp)G)d:owWt..L 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. The force of the impacts create circular structures with raised rimmed wall; spatters of mud and smaller circular secondary craters may be seen (Fig. The number of very large craters in the southern highlands implies a substantial age for the surface. 6 0 obj
19. This process is comparable to the transition from alluvial fan to debris flow-like evidence reported in the Harris crater, . Mineral Physical Properties ChartPHYSICALPROPERTYDefinition*Testing MethodCleavageBreakage of a mineral along planes of weakness in the crystral structure.Examine the mineral for areas where the mineral is broken. What geologic process do you think formed Reuyl (labeled B)? Impact cratering is the excavation of a planet's surface when it is struck by a meteoroid. 1 0 obj
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Composition of igneous rocks is properly identified by determination of the rocks chemical composition. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Where do you find the thickest ejecta?, How do you think the crater rim formed?, Where would you find most of the younger material? All four geologic processes can act to shape a planetary landscape. Then, elongated craters may be formed, and the ejecta blanket may considerably deviate from a circular symmetry. b. For the roughly 200 established terrestrial impact structures neither a comet nor a rubble pile asteroid could definitely be shown to have been the impactor. (Hint: remember that wind direction refers to the direction from which the wind blows.) Determination of the actual chemical composition and crytalline structure of a mineral is difficult without the proper equipment. The four major geologic processes (gradation, impact cratering, tectonism, and volcanism) each produce distinct landforms. Porphyritic texture is composed of crystals of two different sizes. endobj
Around its base is a steep cliff as high as 6 km. Degraded craters -- Craters that have become eroded due to weathering, lava flows, impacting, or downslope movement of material. Its features, such as the ejecta blanket beyond its rim, are well preserved because of the crater's youth; it has not experienced extensive erosion. These definitions and methods are simplified. 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. Image from the Mars Global Surveyor, courtesy of the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Look this information up in your lab manual once the mineral has been identified.StreakColor of the mineral when it is powdered.Grind a small amount of a mineral into a powder on a porcelain streak plate and determine the color of the powder.TasteNerve ending reaction in the tongue to different chemicals.Lick the mineral. 10 12 exemplify typical terrestrial structures. Examine the caldera (labeled A) and describe its shape. Figs. 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. u u u # ( u u u u u u u u u : HNRT 227
Laboratory Experiment #8 with Ms. Crowell
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The Rocks of Earth and the Surface of Mars
Purpose: To understand the rocks of terrestrial planets and how they are formed, and to interpret and analyze the surface of planets and what that teaches us about the conditions that exist today and may have existed eons ago. 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. Sedimentary rocks are rocks composed of sediment. Ma'adim Vallis is the channel in the southeast part of the photograph, marked C. Which of the four processes do you think formed Ma'adim Vallis? 12. Approximately 80% of Earth's surface is less than 200 million years old, while over 99% of the Moon's surface is more than 3 billion years old. 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. "It is difficult to say exactly . 9 0 obj
Describe the appearance and orientation of the windstreaks. How the atoms and molecules are arranged and the strength of the bonding between the atoms result in different physical properties for different minerals. Fig. 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. A crater is a bowl-shaped depression, or hollowed-out area, produced by the impact of a meteorite, volcanic activity, or an explosion. Location: 24S, 245W. Driven by the hypervelocity impact deformation, melted and fractured rocks will be accelerated behind the shock front initiating in the second stage the excavation mass flow. 16. Both minerals are composed of carbon (C). must an impactor be to produce a given size impact structure? Non-foliated textures are identified by their lack of planar character. Halite is common table salt and is most easily identified by taste. Wow, that's massive. 64 0 obj
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-yM. And although these are abundant on the . Vesicular texture is formed when lava solidifies before gases are able to escape. April 8, 2015. It measures 85.9 kilometers in diameter and was named after Dirk Reuyl, a Dutch-American physicist and astronomer (19061972) who made astronomical measurements of the diameter of Mars in the 1940s.[1]. In fact, the differences between craters provide a lot of information about how the craters formed, when they formed, and why. Hailstone craters. The large circular dark areas in the image are impact basins, created as huge impactors struck the Moon. Partner, Earth and Space Science News for Educators. endobj
Light colors, including white, light gray, tan and pink, indicate a felsic composition. endobj
The larger size gives the foliation a slighly shiny appearance. Wind-produced features, called bright windstreaks, are associated with many craters. Earth and the other planets are constantly bombarded by tiny debris from space, much of which burns up in the atmosphere. This crater is believed to have formed when an asteroid struck Earth 65 million years ago. The white material comprising the central peak is glass microbeads. These volcanoes erupted repeatedly over many millions of years, growing higher with each lava flow. Justify your answer. Limestone containing fossils is referred to as fossiliferous limestone. Measure and record the diameter of Olympus Mons. endobj
Small craters often are simple bowl-shaped depressions. 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. Different crystalline structures, or how the atoms and molecules are arranged, result in different minerals. The size and shape of the crater and the amount of material excavated depends on factors such as the velocity and mass of the impacting body and the geology of the surface. Procedures and Questions: Part 4
The Hesperia region in the southern hemisphere consists of cratered plains which have been modified by aeolian processes. Code of Conduct Coal is usually obvious to most students even though few people seem to have ever actually examined it up close. What process do you think formed Reuyl crater (marked B on Figure 5)? 3 0 obj
Barringer Crater (Meteor Crater) in Arizona, United States, is a simple crater created when a 50-meter-wide (160-foot-wide) iron-rich meteroid struck Earth's surface about 50,000 years ago a very recent event to a geologist. 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. The first reason is that Earth's surface is continuously changing because we live on a geologically active planet. | by lava flows that obscured the older craters. These conditions only occur with larger projectiles (a few hundred tons and more) that are not significantly slowed down by friction in the atmosphere that impact the ground at cosmic velocities (10 70 km/s). Shock waves behave like other waves: they can interfere and they may be reflected and refracted. 4). Marble is composed of calcite and will readily react to a small drop of HCl. On relieving of pressure, there is an elastic rebound at the crater floor now hosting a layer of brecciated rocks. 3. Craters come in two flavors: those that arent caused by asteroids or comets, impact craters, are formed by powerful volcanic explosions. Impactors can be practically any size; the (kinetic) energy brought to Earth by impact may exceed that equivalent to thousands of hydrogen bombs detonating at once. Hence in an impact process much more damage is in general done by the rarefaction waves and not by the compressive shock waves, and many peculiar structural features that are observed in impact structures and that may appear puzzling to geologists are the result of strong tensile forces acting on all scales (for more information see the term spallation in the SEARCH function of our website). <>
This means that our own planet is one of the youngest in the Solar System. eige6 Copernicus is a large crater (93 kilometers or 60 miles wide) on the Moon. 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. Privacy Policy| A comparable process is observed with the peculiar shock-deformed Buntsandstein conglomerates in Spain and is in more detail explainedHERE. 19. The modification stage of impact cratering. Diameter 290 km. If the crater turns out to be gravity-dominated, this lends evidence to the theory that the comet's nucleus consists of porous, pristine, unprocessed material, and that the comet formed . 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? Impact craters are relatively shallow, so these "dents" in Earth's rocky . Both are black in color, and is composed of carbon. From the geological map (Tanaka et al., 2014) it is evident that Reuyl crater formed over a Noachian-Hesperian dichotomy boundary surface. Clay and silt are less than 1/256 mm. Explain how you can tell. The Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, is not visible at the surface of the seafloor. Craters are the most common surface features on many solid planets and moonsMercury and our Moon are covered with craters. (Viking mosaic P-17698)
9. Fig. The ejecta of the larger crater is different from that of the smaller crater. Simple craters are small bowl-shaped, smooth-walled craters (the maximum size limit depends on the planet). These temperatures are enough to more or less completely vaporize the impactor and a volume of the target rocks roughly comparable to the volume of the impactor, resulting in a giant expanding impact vapor plume. Ma'adim Vallis is the channel in the southeast part of the photograph, marked C. Which of the four processes do you think formed Ma'adim Vallis? Given such drastic, far-reaching outcomes of space rock impacts, Kring said that studying crater formation holds the answer to understand not only how life on Earth began but also how it could be wiped away again in a future, perhaps inevitable, K-T event. These are not visible to the unaided eye. A central-uplift (central peak) crater (Gow, Canada, 4 km diameter). In the upper part, the flow field enables the rock masses to escape as ejecta from the growing excavation cavity. 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". 10. The bottom line is, everything that happened on the moon happened on the Earth, said David Kring, crater expert and team leader for Center for Lunar Science and Exploration. Fig. Fig. Quartz has a hardness of 7, which makes it difficult to scratch. HYPERLINK "../Honors227/Images/10_3.jpg"Figure 3. The excavation stage of impact cratering. oqoujYm<3, \xu_-^/NiU,*&N
]L$[LDf>q@#SB9o9~-EPs lRj{u/wk\:oD $Ly Melosh, H.J. Fortunately determination of the exact chemical composition is not necessary. However, impacts still occur across our solar system, but at a reduced rate. Meteors incorrectly called shooting stars are the streaks of light created as particles of dust and ice vaporize in our atmosphere. Dunite is composed almost entirely of the mineral olivine which usually contains both iron and magnesium. Explain why you believe this is so. Why does the Moon have so many craters while Earth has so few? Essentially, the Moon's surface has not been modified since early in its history, so most of its craters are still visible. <>
11. Which of the four geologic processes do you think formed this channel? The contact and compression stage of impact cratering. Below you will find a chart which defines the physical properties and provides the means for determining the physical property of a mineral sample. For instance, the famous Chicxulub crater in Yucatan, Mexico, is thought to be the site of the meteor impact that instigated the K-T event, which wiped out the dinosaurs in a mass extinction that affected much of life on Earth. HYPERLINK "../Honors227/Images/10_1.jpg"Figure 1. 5 0 obj
Fig. How can you tell? Check Pages 101-150 of Planetary_Geology in the flip PDF version. 288 pp, The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1986. : Impact cratering. Non-foliated textures have minerals that are not aligned. Early in the formation of our solar system (before 3.9 billion years ago) there was lots of large debris striking the surfaces of the young planets and moons; these older impact basins are larger than the more recent craters. Consider the relationship between Ma'adim Vallis and Gusev, the 160 km . xTO@~^^g!$(01D=l{t How does the mass of the projectile affect the cratering process? Sand and dust particles carried by the wind form dunes and windstreaks. 4 0 obj
3 strongly resemble meteorite impact craters exhibiting a central uplift like the Tycho impact crater on Earths moon (Fig. Venus has fewer craters; its surface has been covered recently (in the last 500 million years!) The composition of clastic sedimentary rocks is divided into three types - clay/silt, sand and gravel. endobj
Download Citation | On Jan 1, 2014, Teasel Muir-Harmony published Reuyl, Dirk | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate. 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 in Reuyl crater located along the dichotomy boundary (west of Apollinaris Mons ). Quite a few interesting questions may remain open. rought The right side of Figure 12.4 shows a rift zone on Venus. Statistically, impact trajectories most abundantly form an oblique 45 angle with the target surface. Describe the breakage as either irregular or conchoidal (has the appearance of broken glass)HardnessResistance to scratching or abrasion.Use minerals of known hardness from the Mohs Hardness Kits. The edges of these larger craters also may slump, creating terraces that step down into the crater. Very similar, but still different, therefore two different minerals. 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. XX=S;K]3:V-j ,bxHeM?qaZ] R*Jf]x-Tfymoy{!TX&THH9C]NXg Planetary_Geology was published by lavit shetty on 2021-11-18. So far we have considered the impact of a solid object like a stony or iron meteorite. Justify your answer. As lower levels of the lava start to cool, they are also pulled . Study area : Reuyl crater (9.6S, 166.9E) diam e-ter and depth is ~84 km and ~2.6 km respectively (Fig.1 a). In impact research, the subdivision of the crater-forming process into three main stages has generally been accepted. Note the remarkable difference to the crater-projectile ratio in Fig. Much of Earth's surface is recycled through plate tectonic activity (and erosion), so Earth also has few craters. Determine and record the diameter of Apollinaris Patera? A good example is the mineral plagioclase. Individual craters are degraded or destroyed over time by erosional processes and further cratering. Look for areas where the light reflects from planar surfaces. A mystery concerning water on Mars is "Where did it go?" Chemical sedimentary rocks are identified by identifying the mineral from which they are composed. Below a trajectory defining floor and walls of the expanding cavity, the rock material cannot leave and is compressed sideward and downwards. These stages are: the contact and compression stage (Fig. Justify your answer? 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. Sinuous Ridge Materials in Reuyl Crater. Consider the relationship between Ma'adim Vallis and Gusev, the 160 km diameter crater marked D. Explain what could be the origin of the material that comprises the floor of Gusev? 1). Jackson (eds. In the large 35-40 km-diameter Azuara, Spain impact structure there is stratigraphic evidence for such a nearly simultaneous excavation and collapse [click here]. This especially concerned also the vaporization of the impactor by shock-induced temperatures and, at that time, let the mining engineers helpless when they did not encounter the expected 50 m-diameter iron meteorite beneath the floor of the Barringer (Meteorite) crater. 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. It has a summit caldera some 80 km wide. 1). Texture will still be used but in a different sense than for igneous rocks. and more. This portion of the Moon is covered by numerous circular holes. 8 0 obj
Similar to some river systems on Earth, these Martian channels have a branching pattern. 17 0 obj
e. 7) will result. Few, if any, crystals will be visible. Unlike the rock-into-mud cratering, the excavation in impact cratering is inextricably linked with the propagation of shock waves. Reuyl, Dirk. More elongate craters can be produced if an impactor strikes the surface at a very low angle less than 20 degrees. 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. 6) Consider the relationship between Ma'adim Vallis and Gusev, the 160 km diameter crater marked C. T U ; = B } ~ x z h_X B*
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Thus, if a valley cuts through a crater, the crater must be older. Platy minerals tend to dominate. What would happen if a loosely bound impactor such s this were to strike Earth? It measures 85.9 kilometers in diameter and was named after Dirk Reuyl , a Dutch-American physicist and astronomer (1906-1972) who made astronomical measurements of the diameter of Mars in the 1940s. 5) Ma'adim Vallis is the channel in the southeast part of the photograph, marked D. What processes do you think formed Ma'adim Vallis? Consult your lab manual for detailed discussion. It is colder inside some craters near the lunar poles than it is on the surface of Pluto (25K, or -415F). Fig. 14. But until NASA returns to the lunar landscape, researchers must rely on shockwave simulators, mathematical models and the well-worn geological formations on Earth to estimate how and when another impact event might occur. Although temperatures below freezing and low atmospheric pressures do not allow liquid water on the surface of Mars today, erosion processes involving running water were important on Mars in the past. 16 0 obj
Textures are based primarily on crystal size. This was obviously not the case, and so most of the Moon craters could not be meteoritic. - Lunar and Planetary Institute 9). Fortunately, these two aspects determine a mineral's physical properties. If windstreaks are dust deposits formed downwind from the craters, what wind direction is indicated here? Transcript (121 KB) Overview : Impact cratering is, arguably, the most important and fundamental geological process in the Solar System. In the case of small transient craters, modifications are moderate. Texture of sedimentary rocks in this lab will be taken to indicate origin or type of sediment found in the rock. Pretty much any tiny dent made on the Moon's surface is going to stay there. The Vredefort impact crater, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Johannesburg, South Africa, was formed just a little over 2 billion years ago. Meteor Crater is 1.2km wide and 175m deep. These crater chains are formed when a comet, normally torn apart by tides, has many of its fragments collide into the planet or moon at nearly the same time. Apart from the distinct role rarefactions waves play in the formation of the excavation flow field, they are especially relevant geologically. 7. Coquina and limestone are both composed of calcite. What are some of Earth's famous impact craters? Context Image. Dark colors, such as black and dark brown, indicate a mafic or ultramafic composition. Fig. (Viking MDIM Volume 4)
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15. Justify your answer. A geologic process. 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. As mentioned above, the composition of most igneous rocks can be identified using this system, formally known as the Color Index. The so-called Meteor Crater in Arizona previously held the record for largest impact crater less than 100,000 years old; it's about 49,000 to 50,000 years old and measures 0.75 miles (1.2 km) in . Even the crater-covered moon might be a chip off old Earths block, an enormous shard shot into orbit following a giant impact event. 9. Press, Oxford, 1989. Felsic compositions are rich in silica (SiO2). 7 0 obj
The Moon does not. It was named after British astronomer Axel Firsoff, and the name was approved in 2010.. Parts of the crater display many layers, as do some of the other craters in the region. This means that the minerals in the rock are all aligned with each other. Mafic rocks may contain light colored minerals as well. HVsT{! There is no other reasonable explanation for the occurrence of such a peculiar structure at the bottom of the glacial Lake Chiemsee. What process do you think formed Reuyl crater (marked B on Figure 11.5)? It has a raised rim around the edge, and nice, sharp features. 10 0 obj
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Olympus Mons is a shield volcano 600 km in diameter, towering 25 km above the surrounding plain. The Moon lacks water, an atmosphere, and tectonic activity, three forces that erode Earth's surface and erase all but the most recent impacts. As on the Moon, Mercury, Venus, and most of the outer planet satellites, impact craters are found on the surface of Mars. This thick mantle of dust creates the appearance of snow covered mountains in the image. Justify your answer. endobj
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