Popigai Impact Structure and its Diamond-Bearing Rocks (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Masaitis, Victor L.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Summarizes 15 years of fieldwork on Popigai impact crater and investigations of materials from 800 boreholes (up to 1500 m deep) with a total length of over 100,000 meters

Enriches readers' understanding of impact cratering processes and sheds new light on the formation of diamond-bearing impactites

Features a wealth of color photos of the Popigai impact structure and thin-sectioned samples of shock rocks

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319779881
• Artikelnr.: 56793005

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Main geological features of impact crater and its environment.- Concentric structural zones and their lithological features.- Petrography of shock-metamorphosed crystalline rocks, impact breccias and impactites.- Petrochemistry and geochemistry of impactites and target rocks.- Impact diamonds from shocked crystalline rocks and impactites.- General patterns of impact diamond distribution.- Origin of diamond-bearing impactites.- Conclusions.