manicouagan

Manicouagan

 Crater Name  Location  Latitude  Longitude  Diameter (km)  Age (Ma)  Exposed  Drilled  Target Rock**  Bolide Type***
 Manicouagan  Quebec, Canada  N 51° 23'  W 68° 42'  85  214 ± 1  Y  Y  M  -
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1. Landsat 7 image (Bands 1,2,3) of the Manicouagan impact structure, Canada. Width of image: 250 km. Compiled by Mary-Anne Fobert, Planetary and Space Science Centre, UNB.

2. Shuttle Image STS-100 332-011 with International Space Station April, 2001 - submitted by Chuck Simonds

3 & 4. Shuttle

5. Landsat 7 Image, bands 742 provided by Ronald W. Hayes, USGS

6. MODIS R: band 1 (620-670nm), G: band 2 (841-876nm), B: band 1 Submitted by Judd Taylo

7. Shuttle image: View of the "handshake" / passing of the Spacelab Pallet (SLP) between Endeavour's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) and the newly installed Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS)/Canadarm2 during the STS-100 mission. Manicouagan crater, Quebec, Canada is visible in the background. Submitted by Chuck Simmonds

8. Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) C-Band Interferometric Radar Stereo Pair, with Topographic Height as Colour

9. DEM

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* 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)