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Piccaninny

 Crater Name  Location  Latitude  Longitude  Diameter (km)  Age (Ma)  Exposed  Drilled  Target Rock**  Bolide Type***
 Piccaninny  Western Australia  S 17° 32'  E 128° 25'  7  < 360  Y  N  S  -
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1. Aster Image: Courtesy 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
Garvin J.B., Piccaninny, Australia (W.A.) - Australian impact craters and enigmatic cryptoexplosion structures, 1988.
Grieve, R. A. F., Meteorite impact studies featured in Australia. Episodes, v. 13, pp. 281-282. 1990.
Grieve, R. A. F., The record of impact on Earth: Implications for a major Cretaceous/Tertiary impact event. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 190, pp. 25-37. 1982.
Haines, P. W., Impact Cratering and Distal Ejecta: The Australian Record. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 52, P. 481 - 507. 2005.
Kenkmann, T. Peolchau, M., Piccaninny, WA, and Matt Wilson, NT; two possible complex impact craters in Australia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 71. 2007.
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.
Shoemaker, E. M., Shoemaker, C. S., Impact structures of Western Australia. Meteoritics, v. 20, pp. 754-756. 1985.
* 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)