Mount Toondina
Crater Name | Location | Latitude | Longitude | Diameter (km) | Age (Ma) | Exposed | Drilled | Target Rock** | Bolide Type*** |
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Mount Toondina | South Australia | S 27° 57' | E 135° 22' | 4 | < 110 | Y | N | S | - |
1. Aster satellite image Submitted by Peter Haines
2. DEM image Provided by Dr. Carlos Roberto de Souza Filho
3 & 4. Image Provided by Dr. Carlos Roberto de Souza Filho
References |
Freytag, I. B., Mount Toondina beds - Permian sediments in a probable piercement structure. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., v. 89, pp. 61-79. 1965. |
Haines, P. W., Impact Cratering and Distal Ejecta: The Australian Record. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 52, P. 481 - 507. 2005. |
Moorcroft, E., Geophysical investigation, Mt. Toondina area. Quarterly Geological Notes, The Geological Survey of South Australia, v. 12, pp. 3-6. 1964. |
Plescia, J. B., Shoemaker, E.M. and Shoemaker,C.S., Gravity survey of Mount Toondina impact structure, South Australia. Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 99, pp. 13,167-13,179. 1994. |
Plescia, J. B., Gravity investigations of terrestrial impact craters (abstract). AGU Fall Meeting,. 1993. |
Plescia, J. B., Shoemaker, E.M. and Shoemaker,C.S., Gravity survey of the Mt. Toondina impact structure, South Australia (abstract). Lunar and Planetary Science, v. XXII, pp. 1079-1080. 1991. |
Roddy, D. J., Shoemaker, E.M., Shoemaker, C.S. and Roddy,J.K., Aerial photography and geologic studies of impact structures in Australia (abstract). Lunar and Planetary Science XIX, pp. 990-991. 1988. |
Shoemaker, E. M., Shoemaker, C. S., Impact structures of Australia (1987) (abstract). Lunar and Planetary Science XIX, pp. 1079-1080. 1988. |
Wopfner, H., Mount Toondina - ?Diapir or astrobleme. Quarterly Geological Notes, The Geological Survey of South Australia, v. 62, pp. 20-24. 1977. |
Youles, I. P., Mount Toondina impact structure. Quarterly Geological Notes, The Geological Survey of South Australia, v. 60, pp. 10-11. 1976. |
* 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) |