When an impactor strikes the solid surface of a planet, a shock wave spreads out from the site of the impact. Below you will find a chart which defines the physical properties and provides the means for determining the physical property of a mineral sample. But the environmental effects of impact crater formation go far beyond forming benign basins. Image from the Mars Global Surveyor, courtesy of the Lunar and Planetary Institute. We see that shock wave and rarefaction wave propagation are essential in the formation of a meteorite impact crater. While many minerals share common physical properties, when all of a mineral's physical properties are examined, it often results in a unique set of physical properties which can be used to identify the mineral. Large crustal blocks were merging together to create the . Impact craters are relatively shallow, so these "dents" in Earth's rocky . Fig. must an impactor be to produce a given size impact structure? Complex craters are large craters with complicated features. endobj
These are not commonly tested for in an introductory lab. 20. Oblong craters can be created by impacts striking the surface at a very low angle. The first is called erosion. Image: Google Earth. Meteor Crater formed only 50,000 years ago. Sand is clasts between 1/16 and 2 mm in size, and gravel is greater than 2 mm. Firsoff is an impact crater in the region called Meridiani Planum in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 2.66N latitude and 9.42W longitude.It is 90 km in diameter. Meteor Crater is 1.2km wide and 175m deep. But Earth has several things the moon doesnt an atmosphere and liquid water that cause erosion. In an introductory level lab it is impossible for us to determine these two aspects of a mineral. Nevertheless, the resulting impact crater is more or less circular unless the angle of incidence is very low, less than 10. Melosh, H.J. The polar caps shrink during local summer and grow during local winter. Quartz has a hardness of 7, which makes it difficult to scratch. <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>>
. What happens to the transient crater? Terms of Use, Copyright document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); 6). This new crater candidate with fluvial morphological units preserved on the floor lead to understand the nature of fluvial processes . The structure of the transient crater is widely preserved, and we are left with a simple or bowl-shaped impact crater (Fig. Part of the ejecta of the larger crater was molten, melted rock and formed flows. Clay and silt are less than 1/256 mm. American Geological Institute, Alexandria, VA, 788 p.
Igneous rocks are rocks that solidify from molten material (magma). Degraded craters -- Craters that have become eroded due to weathering, lava flows, impacting, or downslope movement of material. The shock wave fractures the rock and excavates a large cavity (much larger than the impactor). 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]. Sinuous Ridge Materials in Reuyl Crater. When a meteor makes it through Earths atmosphere without burning up, it strikes the ground faster than the speed of sound. Dunite is composed almost entirely of the mineral olivine which usually contains both iron and magnesium. However, this is not a sensible practice in a large lab with many different people handling the samples. 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? The now existing bowl-shaped structure surrounded by an uplifted rim and a blanket of ejected material is termed the transient crater obviously indicating a continuation of the impact cratering process arriving in the modification stage. 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). The compression stage of crater formation involves that initial exchange of energy between the projectile and the impact area. <>
Google Earth image. So far we have considered the impact of a solid object like a stony or iron meteorite. Geologic processes have not erased the craters with time. One of the most well-known craters on Earth is Meteor Crater, which is near Winslow, Arizona. Halite has a hardness of 2.5 and cannot be scratched by a fingernail (unpolished fingernail). Venus has fewer craters; its surface has been covered recently (in the last 500 million years!) Multi-ring basin Mona Lisa on Venus. 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. 8. The faster the incoming impactor, the larger the crater. The Crater Maker should stand over their sand-filled container and hold their arm out at the height they are going to drop it. 13 0 obj
Where were really going to get the answers the gold standards of answers is when we go back to the moon, Kring said. January 2014; Image credit: NASA. Which of the four geologic processes do you think formed this channel? Smaller valleys join the main east-west chasm. Moreover, the principles of superposition and cross-cutting relations indicate that a feature which at least partly covers another feature is the younger. It is the oldest and largest impact crater recognized on Earth's surface. Image courtesy of D. Roddy through the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Dark colors, such as black and dark brown, indicate a mafic or ultramafic composition. 10. Color is often an indicator of the composition of a rock or mineral and can be effectively used to identify the composition of most igneous rocks. * Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project This of course is primarily a matter of energy related with the projectiles mass (and therefore density) and impact velocity, and, subordinately, also a matter of the target lithology. When we think about cratering, we usually think of big rocks falling onto a planet, but even tiny pebbles can make craters. These are not visible to the unaided eye. The classification of metamorphic rocks is based on the minerals that are present and the temperature and pressure at which these minerals form. -Un+iJiO&Jsg/kO(*g!FcyvOC&t+3I*cm_5{`7=!MhW&A\8(}HOf%_Pp)G)d:owWt..L 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. Typically bowl-shaped craters. Here is a look at the violent, battered past of the . And the trump card, plate tectonics, that recycles much of the planets crust over millions of years and smooths away blemishes left by cosmic impacts. What process do you think formed Reuyl crater (marked B on Figure 11.5)? However, impacts still occur across our solar system, but at a reduced rate. Code of Conduct These are fragments or pieces of rock or minerals. And of course there's the lake itself. Transcript (121 KB) Overview : Impact cratering is, arguably, the most important and fundamental geological process in the Solar System. Schistose foliation is composed of larger minerals that are visible to the unaided eye. 4 0 obj
Scientists describe other types of craters as well: How are large craters different than small ones? The impactor is shattered into small pieces and may melt or vaporize. Procedures and Questions: Part 3
Now we examine some Valleys west of Chryse Planitia. Wind-produced features, called bright windstreaks, are associated with many craters. You will have to calculate an approximate image scale from the height of the peak in the foreground.) This image shows a simple crater on Mars that has no central peak or terraces around its edges. 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. Mass movement is the displacement of material by landslides or slumping through the action of gravity. HYPERLINK "../Honors227/Images/10_5.jpg"Figure 5. Note the remarkable difference to the crater-projectile ratio in Fig. Vesicular texture is formed when lava solidifies before gases are able to escape. Explain your answer. Ds8d9B nNPS,*_y\v`/>wou__]ewPcLkUU$~z-S|lj O/#lr 9]_nc5u$9a4GVKwsaG|4ot6%?F3Xa:K1r=1\Sw The impact sprays material ejecta out in all directions. Calcite readily reacts with a small drop of HCl. 7) will result. 4. What geologic process do you think formed Reuyl (labeled B)? Scientists record the size and number of impact craters and how eroded they are to determine the ages and histories of different planetary surfaces. Correspondingly, a zone of rock melt follows the vaporized zone, and when shock energy is further lowered rocks will only be heavily damaged (fractured, brecciated) with decreasing intensity. 1. Reuyl, Dirk. oqoujYm<3, \xu_-^/NiU,*&N
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15. The somewhat blurred contours are not surprising giventhe impact happened into water and a soft, water-saturated target rock. Although Mars does not have plate tectonics like the Earth, there are many tectonic features that show its surface has been deformed. 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 What process do you think formed Apollinaris Patera? <>
A mystery concerning water on Mars is "Where did it go?" What are the different kinds of craters? What would happen if a loosely bound impactor such s this were to strike Earth? It is located along the north border of the Snake River Plain in Idaho. Whereas volcanic craters arise from deep inside the planet, impact craters originate in outer space. Very similar, but still different, therefore two different minerals. Quartz has a hardness of 7 and is very difficult to scratch, even with a good quality knife blade. <>
The monument contains 55 cones with lava flows and 14 fissures, many of which have spatter cones. A good example is the mineral plagioclase. What influences the size and shape of a crater? 10. (a) Geomorphic map of Reuyl crater. xTO@~^^g!$(01D=l{t (Viking mosaic P-17698)
9. Texture will still be used but in a different sense than for igneous rocks. This suggests that the transient crater collapse in the modification stage is largely driven by gravity (gMoon ~ 1/6 gEarth). The crater is 2 kilometers (about 1 mile) wide. Impact basins are very large impact structures that are more than 300 kilometers (185 miles) in diameter. Metaconglomerate is composed of pebbles and gravel that have been flattened due to directed pressure. 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. It is the oldest and largest impact crater recognized on Earth's surface. The crater has been extensively eroded, but is believed to originally have been as much as 300 kilometers (185 miles) across. 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. It has a summit caldera some 80 km wide. The force can catapult chunks of molten and solid rock hundreds of miles from the impact site this material is known as ejecta flow. 18. Both are black in color, and is composed of carbon. 2 0 obj
Gneissic banding is the easiest of the foliations to recognize. Even the crater-covered moon might be a chip off old Earths block, an enormous shard shot into orbit following a giant impact event. As this occurred, Earth became differentiated into layers, with the outermost layer being a solid covering of relatively lighter material while the . Moon craters are formed by volcanism and cratering. Extensional stresses have led to the formation of great valleys such as Valles Marineris, the longest canyon system in the solar system. Cooling of the magma can occur beneath the surface (plutonic) or on the surface (volcanic). Once these two characteristics have been identified, the Igneous Rock Identification chart can be used to help identify the rock name. Fig. Tenoumer Crater. A geologic process. 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. Texture of sedimentary rocks in this lab will be taken to indicate origin or type of sediment found in the rock. Explain how you can tell. Halite is common table salt and is most easily identified by taste. * Definitions simplified or modified from Bates, R.L. The rock is composed entirely of glass. Why does the Moon have so many craters while Earth has so few? endobj
20. 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. The keys to this definition are the chemical composition and the crystalline structure. In fact, the differences between craters provide a lot of information about how the craters formed, when they formed, and why. The larger size gives the foliation a slighly shiny appearance. (b) Contour map derived from the MOLA 463m/pixel DTM, with the . At the edges of lunar maria, there are often damaged walls of craters formed before the maria. The meter scale indicates water depth. Chapter. 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. 19. Apart from the distinct role rarefactions waves play in the formation of the excavation flow field, they are especially relevant geologically. Mercury and the Moon are covered with impact craters; their surfaces are very old. 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. 18. In the beginning debate about meteorite craters (about one hundred years ago), astronomers believed the many craters on the Moon were volcanic. <>
Were still searching for a clue to deduce that.. 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? Photo Policy The Vredefort impact crater, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Johannesburg, South Africa, was formed just a little over 2 billion years ago. 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. <>
This planar character can be flat like a piece of slate or folded. How many objects from space impact Earth each year? Explain why you believe the way you do. ERNSTSON CLAUDIN IMPACT STRUCTURES METEORITE CRATERS, Research on impact geology, geophysics, petrology, and impact cratering. The large circular dark areas in the image are impact basins, created as huge impactors struck the Moon. What process do you think formed Reuyl crater (marked B on Figure 5)? What process do you think formed Reuyl crater (marked B on Figure 5)? 15 0 obj
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1. Larger craters can have terraces, central peaks, and multiple rings. The 50 km-diameter Mathilde asteroid has a mean density of 1.3 g/cm only and is considered a kind of rubble pile. The image shows ring-like structures that extend to about 280 kilometers (175 miles) from the center. Measure and record the diameter of Olympus Mons. Astronomy Gift Shop: http://www.astronomydvd.com/shop.aspx How were the Moon's craters and maria formed? Thus, if a valley cuts through a crater, the crater must be older. Over the course of a few hundred million years, the planet began to cool and oceans of liquid water formed. Stresses can be caused by subsurface uplift or by the addition of mass (such as lava flows) that weigh down an area. Craters can be used to determine the relative ages of Martian surface materials; in general, older surfaces have craters which are more numerous, larger, and more degraded than those on young surfaces. The texture of an igneous rock does not refer to the roughness or smoothness of the surface. Terraces are a common feature of many large craters---for another example, look at the crater Theophilus. Justify your answer. JI,ZbXr}n9=^,eIgtU_=F#-K}_^(qyk1bZe|}elK)&Hc:GVtOd~Y@0IA$2i
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Finally, let's examine Apollinaris Patera and surrounding region. The more mass it has the bigger the impact. 14. Aeolian (wind) activity is also a continuing process of erosion. Since tectonic plate movements has erased much of Earths crater record, the answers to the lingering questions about crater formation and timelines lie in the exquisitely preserved craters on the moon. Computations suggest craters that were formed by a low-density projectile are flatter and have distinctly larger diameter ratios (compared to the above-mentioned one-to-ten ratio of projectile and crater diameter). 13. This process is comparable to the transition from alluvial fan to debris flow-like evidence reported in the Harris crater, . 4). Copernicus is a large crater (93 kilometers or 60 miles wide) on the Moon. Compare the size of Ius Chasma and its tributaries to the size of the Grand Canyon of Arizona (approximate length=175 km and maximum width=29km). Context Image. Wow, that's massive. The dark basins can be seen by the naked eye. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars would have formed last, when the Sun was far calmer. Quartzite is composed of quartz sand grains. In this way, all rock particles behind the expanding shock front are captured by both the compressive shock and the tensile rarefaction, and both combine into a vector of acceleration. The Moon lacks water, an atmosphere, and tectonic activity, three forces that erode Earth's surface and erase all but the most recent impacts. How looks an impact crater that was produced by an oblique impact? 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. This thick mantle of dust creates the appearance of snow covered mountains in the image. Individual craters are degraded or destroyed over time by erosional processes and further cratering. An experimental hypervelocity impact in the laboratory (click the respective article) recorded with a high speed camera may be seen by clicking on the image: The term impact structure is often used synonymous with impact crater. Arid climate and a lack of vegetation in the vicinity of Meteor Crater make it an excellent comparison site for similar-sized impact craters on Mars, Ramsey said. 20. Intermediate compositions have an intermediate color, often gray or consisting of equal parts of dark and light mineral. The Moon does not. Justify your answer. Using the following picture
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CJ ph h_X B* ph 2) we may think it somehow formed from an identical mechanism. 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 . All four geologic processes can act to shape a planetary landscape. Fig. 5. Fig. As on the Moon, Mercury, Venus, and most of the outer planet satellites, impact craters are found on the surface of Mars. Determine and record the diameter of Apollinaris Patera? Glassy texture is the most readily recognized. Fragments of the Canyon Diablo meteorite were found inside the crater. Note: This is a large Adobe Acrobat PDF file: "craters_activity.pdf" (8.5 Mb), so you may want to download to your computer. Essentially, the minerals are randomly oriented. These processes expose old, long-buried materials, making them accessible to probes and . Typically, these rocks split along parallel, planar surfaces. Although the resulting depression may bear some resemblance to the hole that results from throwing a pebble into a sandbox, the . 15. Foliated textures show a distinct planar character. And although these are abundant on the . Three types of sedimentary rock "texture" are clastic, chemical, and biologic. e. Figs. Cross sections of simple and complex impact craters. PAGE 3
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! 11. Privacy Policy| And again, one might suspect a process similar to rock tossed into mud. Look for areas where the light reflects from planar surfaces. 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. Different crystalline structures, or how the atoms and molecules are arranged, result in different minerals. 3. As a result, there are only around 160 known impact craters in existence today (though there are surely more that haven't been discovered). Procedures and Lab Questions to be Turned In: Part 1
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Hesperia Planum, showing bright windstreaks associated with some of the craters. If windstreaks are dust deposits formed downwind from the craters, what wind direction is indicated here? Justify your answer? Lake Toba in Sumatra, the largest volcanic structure on Earth, is an example of an enormous caldera that has filled with water over time. Sedimentary rock identification is primarily based on composition. How scientists solved the riddle of these mysterious landforms. There will be another Chicxulub-size impact event, he said. Partner, Earth and Space Science News for Educators. Peak ring crater Rachmaninoff on Mercury. Hb```,6 u!b`0pT 9,
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[Hint: use the principle of cross-cutting relations to justify your answer.] Explain their similarities and their differences. However, there are exceptions. What process do you think formed Reuyl crater (marked B on Figure 11)? 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, however, requires chemical equipment and apparatus that is unavailable in this lab. Simple craters are small bowl-shaped, smooth-walled craters (the maximum size limit depends on the planet). Some of this tiny debris makes it to Earth's surface and is mixed with soil and ocean sediment. Measure and record the east-west and north-south diameters. h_X CJ$ h_X H* h_X 5h_X h_X 5>*
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