United States Meteorite Impact Craters


Facebook Group:


  • Home
  • Crater Identification
    • Chapter 1
    • Chapter 2
    • Chapter 3
    • Chapter 4
    • Chapter 5
    • Chapter 6
    • Chapter 7
    • Chapter 8
    • Chapter 9
    • Chapter 10
    • Chapter 11
  • Alamo, Nevada
  • Ames, Oklahoma
  • Avak, Alaska
  • Barringer, Arizona
  • Beaverhead, Montana
  • Chesapeake Bay, Virginia
  • Cloud Creek, Wyoming
  • Crooked Creek, Missouri
  • Decaturville, Missouri
  • Decorah, Iowa
  • Des Plaines, Illinois
  • Flynn Creek, Tennessee
  • Glasford, Illinois
  • Glover Bluff, Wisconsin
  • Haviland, Kansas
  • Kentland, Indiana
  • Manson, Iowa
  • Marquez, Texas
  • Middlesboro, Kentucky
  • Newporte, North Dakota
  • Odessa, Texas
  • Red Wing, North Dakota
  • Rock Elm, Wisconsin
  • Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • Serpent Mound, Ohio
  • Sierra Madera, Texas
  • Upheaval Dome, Utah
  • Weaubleau, Missouri
  • Wells Creek, Tennessee
  • Wetumpka, Alabama
  • Possible Impacts
  • User-submitted Possibles
  • Open Questions
  • About This Website

impact craters and their identification - Chapter 1

Impact Craters and Their Identification

- Robert Beauford, PhD

[Note: Please understand that this is an unfinished work, and that this website is perpetually under construction.  I strongly encourage and welcome critiques and suggested refinements by qualified researchers working in impact crater research.

Chapter 1 - Introduction to impact craters

Chapter 2 - What makes a 'confirmed' crater?

Chapter 3 - Shatter Cones

Chapter 4 - High-pressure mineral polymorphs

Chapter 5 - Grain-scale evidence of impact origin

Chapter 6 - Impactor identification

Chapter 7 - Crater morphology - simple and complex craters

Chapter 8 - Breccias, melts, and other impactites

Chapter 9 - Approaches to recognizing small impact craters

Chapter 10 - Pseudo-impacts and Crater-like structures

Chapter 11 - Glossary of impact astrogeology terms

[development note: Link pages and add a brief description of what each page covers] 



    Links:


     

    Copyright 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 United States Meteorite Impact Craters. All rights reserved.



    Facebook Group: