Macha
Crater Name | Location | Latitude | Longitude | Diameter (km) | Age (Ma) | Exposed | Drilled | Target Rock** | Bolide Type*** |
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Macha | Russia | N 60° 6' | E 117° 35' | 0.3 | < 0.007 | Y | N | S | Iron |
1. Aerial view of the Macha crater group from the north-west
2. Scheme of the Macha craters (from E.P. Gurov and E.P. Gurova, 1998) 1 – boundaries and inner walls of the craters;2 – relics of ejecta; 3 – alluvial fan of the creek; 4 – lakes in the craters
2. Aerial photograph of the Macha crater group (by E.P. Gurov)
References |
Gurov, E. P., Gurova, E. P., The group of Macha crater in western Yakutia, Planetary Space Science, v.46, p.323-328. 1998. |
Gurov, E. P., The group of Macha craters in western Yakutia (abstract). Lunar and Planetary Science, v. XXVII, pp. 473-474. 1996. |
Gurov, E. P., Metallic particles from the Macha meteoritic crater and some placers in Yakutia (in Russian). Material and Origin of Meteorites (Collection of Scientific Works), pp. 80-85. 1988. |
Gurov, E. P., Gurova, E.P. and Kovalyukh,N.N., The Macha meteorite-crater group, western Yakutia (in Russian). Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, v. 296, pp. 185-188. 1987. |
Gurov, E. P., Gurova, E. P., Impact structures on the Earth's surface (in Russian). Geologicheskii Zhurnal, v. 47, pp. 117-124. 1987. |
Gurov, E. P., Gurova, E. P., A group of young meteorite craters in the marginal northwestern part of the Aldan Anteclise (in Russian). Doklady Akademii Nauk Ukrainskoi SSR, Seriya "B", v. 2, pp. 9-12. 1984. |
* pre-1977 K-Ar, Ar-Ar and Rb-Sr ages recalculated using the decay constants of Steiger and Jager (1977) Ages in millions of years (Ma) before present. ** Abbreviations: C - Crystalline Target; C-Ms - Metasedimentary Target; M - Mixed Target (i.e.sedimentary strata overlying crystalline basement); S - sedimentary target (i.e. no crystalline rocks affected by the impact event). From Osinski. G. R., Spray J. G., and Grieve R. A. F. 2007. Impact melting in sedimentary target rocks: A synthesis. In The Sedimentary Record of Meteorite Impacts, Geological Society of America Special Paper. Editors: Evans K. Horton W., King D., Morrow J., and Warme J. Geological Society of America: Boulder, in press. ***From Koeberl,C. Identification of meteoritic components in impactites. 1998, Koeberl, C. The Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry of Impacts. 2007 and PASSC Files. (IAB, IIIAB, IIIB, IIID - Iron Meteorite) |