T269 Terrestrial Impact Structures: Origin, Structure, and Evolution

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  What Can We Learn from Meteor Crater Regarding the Origin, Structure, and Evolution of Impact Craters on Earth?
  David A. Kring, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX
  149528 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  Imaging and Drilling the Chicxulub Impact Crater: Testing Models for Crater Collapse
  Sean P.S. Gulick, University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX and Peggy Vermeesch, University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX and Penny Barton, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, N/A and Joanna Morgan, Imperial College London, London and Gail L. Christeson, Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Matthew McDonald, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Keren Mendoza, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, N/A and Gareth Collins, Dept. Earth Science and Eng., Imperial College, London and Anusha Surendra, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, N/A and Jaime Urrutia, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, N/A
  151196 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:10 PM
  The Chicxulub Impact Melt-Rock
  Philippe Claeys, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels
  149424 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:25 PM
  Sequence Stratigraphy of the Chicxulub Crater Infill and Yucatàn Carbonate Platform Development: Implications for the Evolution of Large Terrestrial Impact Craters
  Michael T. Whalen, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Zulmacristina F. Pearson, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Sean S.P. Gulick, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Richard D. Norris, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD, La Jolla, CA
  151599 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:40 PM
  Impactites and Basement-Derived Rocks in the ICDP-USGS Eyreville Cores, Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure, USA
  James Horton, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Michael J. Kunk, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Harvey E. Belkin, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and John C. Jackson, Reston, VA and I-Ming Chou, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  150307 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  Asymmetric (Dipping) Layered Target Constrained Infilling of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure
  David S. Powars, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Lucy E. Edwards, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Rufus D. Catchings, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Gregory S. Gohn, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and James Horton, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  150780 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:10 PM
  Melt Particles from the Impact Breccia Section, Eyreville B Drill Core, Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure, USA
  Katerina Bartosova, University of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and Ludovic Ferrière, University of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and Christian Koeberl, University of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and Franz Brandstaetter, Natural History Museum, Vienna
  147660 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  Petrology of Impact Melt Rocks from the Chesapeake Bay Crater
  Axel Wittmann, USRA, Houston, TX and David A. Kring, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX and Wolf Uwe Reimold, Leibniz Institute at Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, N/A and Lutz Hecht, Humboldt University, Berlin, N/A and Ralf T. Schmitt, Humboldt University, Berlin, N/A and Vera A. Fernandes, Berkeley, CA
  149564 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  Post-Impact Heat Conduction and Compaction-Driven Fluid Flow in the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure, Based on Downhole Vitrinite Reflectance
  MaryAnn L. Malinconico, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Ward E. Sanford, United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA and James Horton, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  150409 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  Impact to Immediate Post-Impact Effects of the Chesapeake Bay Event
  Henning Dypvik, University of Oslo, Oslo, N/A and James Wright Horton, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and David S. Powars, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  145810 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  Post-Impact Evolution of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: Eustasy, Passive-Aggressive Tectonism, and Impactite Compaction
  Andrew A. Kulpecz, Rutgers University, Edison, NJ and Kenneth Miller, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ and James V. Browning, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ and Lucy Edwards, United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA and David S. Powars, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Ashley Harris, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ and Mark D. Feigenson, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
  149324 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  Post-Impact Integrated Litho-, Sequence, Sr-Isotopic, and Bio- Stratigraphy of the Eyreville Corehole, Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure Inner Basin
  James V. Browning, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ and Kenneth G. Miller, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ and Peter McLaughlin, Delaware Geological Survey University of Delaware, DGS Bldg, Newark, DE and Lucy E. Edwards, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and David S. Powars, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Andrew A. Kulpecz, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ and Bridget Wade, University College London, London, N/A and Mark D. Feigenson, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
  150264 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  Impact Geology of the U.S. Gulf Coastal States
  David King, Auburn University Dept of Geosciences, Auburn, AL and Lucille W. Petruny, Astra-Terra Research, Auburn, AL
  140082 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  Universal Stage Determination of Crystallographic Orientations of Planar Deformation Features In Quartz: Quality, Precision, Repeatability, and Representativeness of Measurements
  Ludovic Ferrière, University of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and Jared R. Morrow, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA and Tsolmon Amgaa, University of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and Christian Koeberl, University of Vienna, Vienna, N/A
  147610 (Technical Sessions)