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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 |
- |
Landsat 7 Image, bands 452 provided by Ronald W. Hayes, USGS
Shuttle Image STS-100 332-011 with International Space Station
April, 2001 - submitted by Chuck Simonds
Shuttle
Shuttle
Landsat 7 Image, bands 742 provided by Ronald W. Hayes, USGS
MODIS R: band 1 (620-670nm), G: band 2 (841-876nm), B: band 1
Submitted by Judd Taylor
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
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) C-Band Interferometric Radar
Stereo Pair, with Topographic Height as Colour
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)
****This revised diameter is the best estimate for the collapsed transient crater diameter (rim-to-rim dimension). Our previous diameters cited maximum damage diameter estimates. There is considerable confusion in the literature regarding the definition of "diameter". In the Earth Impact Database, we are striving to cite the collapsed transient crater value where possible. This can affect the order of size: for example, Sudbury's maximum damage diameter is ~260 km (as defined by the outermost ring diameter), while that of Chicxulub is ~240 km. However, the rim-to-rim diameter of Sudbury is less than that of Chicxulub's (130 versus 150 km, respectively). |
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