Transcript (121 KB) Overview : Impact cratering is, arguably, the most important and fundamental geological process in the Solar System. The image shows ring-like structures that extend to about 280 kilometers (175 miles) from the center. They are typically filled with impact rocks (impactites) in the form of impact melt rocks,suevitesand different kinds ofbreccias. Impactors can be practically any size; the (kinetic) energy brought to Earth by impact may exceed that equivalent to thousands of hydrogen bombs detonating at once. This article about an extraterrestrial geological feature is a stub. In this way, all rock particles behind the expanding shock front are captured by both the compressive shock and the tensile rarefaction, and both combine into a vector of acceleration. <> Context Image. Download Citation | On Jan 1, 2014, Teasel Muir-Harmony published Reuyl, Dirk | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate. 6. Privacy Policy| This lab is an adaptation of an adaptation by Richard Harwood based upon the original NASA resource: A Teacher's Guide with Activities in Physical and Earth Sciences for Planetary Geology,: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1998, EG-1998-03-109, p. 238. Fig. The legend is shown at the bottom with different units or features present within the crater. HYPERLINK "../Honors227/Images/10_3.jpg"Figure 3. Nevertheless, the resulting impact crater is more or less circular unless the angle of incidence is very low, less than 10. 3 strongly resemble meteorite impact craters exhibiting a central uplift like the Tycho impact crater on Earths moon (Fig. 17 0 obj Scratch the unknown mineral with a known hardness to determine which mineral is harder. As on the Moon, Mercury, Venus, and most of the outer planet satellites, impact craters are found on the surface of Mars. 17. On impact of a cosmic body, shock waves start from the contact point and propagate into both the underground target rocks and into the impactor. There is no other reasonable explanation for the occurrence of such a peculiar structure at the bottom of the glacial Lake Chiemsee. Explain why you believe this is so. Texture of sedimentary rocks in this lab will be taken to indicate origin or type of sediment found in the rock. The GIF below shows the formation sequence of the model (a YouTube . These act together to break apart and wear down the ground. 11. Coal is usually obvious to most students even though few people seem to have ever actually examined it up close. The monument contains 55 cones with lava flows and 14 fissures, many of which have spatter cones. A geologic process. This means that the minerals in the rock are all aligned with each other. Partner, Earth and Space Science News for Educators. On a world with an atmosphere, the object is heated by friction with the blanket of air. The same geologic processes that shape Earth, i.e., erosion, impact cratering, tectonism, and volcanism, have left their mark on Mars. Intermediate compositions have an intermediate color, often gray or consisting of equal parts of dark and light mineral. Roter Kamm Crater. 9 0 obj The prevailing theory supported by the scientific community, the giant impact hypothesis suggests that the moon formed when an object smashed into early Earth. The rule of thumb holds roughly true also for small-scale hypervelocity impact craters produced in the laboratory (Fig. That means it is more likely it will cool into hexagonal chunks. A central-uplift (central peak) crater (Gow, Canada, 4 km diameter). In the upper part, the flow field enables the rock masses to escape as ejecta from the growing excavation cavity. Where were really going to get the answers the gold standards of answers is when we go back to the moon, Kring said. Different crystalline structures, or how the atoms and molecules are arranged, result in different minerals. Mercury has lots of craters, yet Venus has very few craters, due to its dense atmosphere (containing lots of 'heavy' gases), meaning that many meteorites burn up due to friction in the . Known as one of the best-preserved impact craters on Earth, it is 180 meters (590 feet) deep and 1.2 kilometers (0.75 miles) in diameter. Here is a look at the violent, battered past of the . What process do you think formed Reuyl crater (marked B on Figure 11.5)? For the roughly 200 established terrestrial impact structures neither a comet nor a rubble pile asteroid could definitely be shown to have been the impactor. crater: [noun] the bowl-shaped depression around the orifice of a volcano. These crater chains are formed when a comet, normally torn apart by tides, has many of its fragments collide into the planet or moon at nearly the same time. Which is larger, and by how much? must an impactor be to produce a given size impact structure? Mass movement is the displacement of material by landslides or slumping through the action of gravity. The impact velocity was 1250 m/s, and the target (flour) sound /seismic velocity is estimated to have been about 100 m/s. All four geologic processes can act to shape a planetary landscape. Justify your answer. The excavation stage of impact cratering. Mafic rocks may contain light colored minerals as well. <> Aeolian (wind) activity is also a continuing process of erosion. 17. The crater is 2 kilometers (about 1 mile) wide. and more. Gneissic banding is the easiest of the foliations to recognize. Apart from the distinct role rarefactions waves play in the formation of the excavation flow field, they are especially relevant geologically. d. Maadim Vallis is the channel in the southeast part of the photograph, marked C. Which of the four processes do you think formed Maadim Vallis? Biologic sedimentary rocks are which form as the result of the accumulation of organic material or biologic activity. This depends on how large the crater is. xZms|fl d;NrHIM. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 1). The crater retention age on the ejecta of the unnamed crater is 3.7 Ga which suggests that the crater likely formed during the Noachian-Hesperian period boundary or earlier. The four major geologic processes (gradation, impact cratering, tectonism, and volcanism) each produce distinct landforms. The Crater Maker should stand over their sand-filled container and hold their arm out at the height they are going to drop it. I noticed the young crater has an odd shape, non-circular, almost diamond-shaped. 19. From the geological map (Tanaka et al., 2014) it is evident that Reuyl crater formed over a Noachian-Hesperian dichotomy boundary surface. * Definitions simplified or modified from Bates, R.L. 18. Fortunately, these two aspects determine a mineral's physical properties. Then, elongated craters may be formed, and the ejecta blanket may considerably deviate from a circular symmetry. Large impact basins are also found on other planets, including Mars and Mercury. In fact, the differences between craters provide a lot of information about how the craters formed, when they formed, and why. These chunks begin to form at the top layer of the lava, which is cooling the fastest. 1 0 obj 2) we may think it somehow formed from an identical mechanism. Craters come in two flavors: those that aren't caused by asteroids or comets, impact craters, are formed by powerful volcanic explosions. Figs. It measures 85.9 kilometers in diameter and was named after Dirk Reuyl , a Dutch-American physicist and astronomer (1906-1972) who made astronomical measurements of the diameter of Mars in the 1940s. Chapter. Mars has some of the largest volcanoes in the solar system, including Olympus Mons, a massive volcano many times larger than the Island of Hawaii. The shock wave fractures the rock and excavates a large cavity (much larger than the impactor). Kaali Crater Field. PAGE 3 PAGE 1 ! During an impact, buried material is ejected while outward pressure pushes the rock at the crater's edge upward, forming a rim. Fig. So far we have considered the impact of a solid object like a stony or iron meteorite. Kathleen Mark: Meteorite Craters. u u u # ( u u u u u u u u u : HNRT 227 Laboratory Experiment #8 with Ms. Crowell FALL 2015 The Rocks of Earth and the Surface of Mars Purpose: To understand the rocks of terrestrial planets and how they are formed, and to interpret and analyze the surface of planets and what that teaches us about the conditions that exist today and may have existed eons ago. Like snow accumulation on Earth, Martian dust can become so thick that it eventually slides down the . largest craters on Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto formed in an icy crust (Io's crust is dominated by silicates, see Chap ter 14). One of the most well-known craters on Earth is Meteor Crater, which is near Winslow, Arizona. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars would have formed last, when the Sun was far calmer. Phyllitic foliation is composed of platy minerals that are slightly larger than those found in slaty cleavage, but generally are still too small to see with the unaided eye. Dual crater at the bottom of Lake Chiemsee, Bavaria (Germany) that very probably formed in the large Holocene Chiemgau impact event. Image: Google Earth. Aphanitic texture is a fine grained texture but the crystals are too small to see. Name _____ COSMORPHOLOGY - May 2009 Geologic landforms Purpose: By studying aerial photographs you will learn to identify different kinds of geologic features based on their different morphologies and learn the processes involved in their formation. Wow, that's massive. Hailstone craters. Measure and record the diameter of Olympus Mons. The contact and compression stage of impact cratering. 9). But Earth has several things the moon doesnt an atmosphere and liquid water that cause erosion. : Cf Cf @U ' 8 L D # 8 ^ r ( u u u # # # # # # # $ $ r' -# u u -# B# u" u" u" # u" # u" u" w" " pW 0 {" " X# 0 # " ( ( " ( " l u Z @ u" 4 C l u u u -# -# ! Larger impacts also still occur, but these are much more rare. 8. (Viking MDIM Volume 4) 13. Justify your answer. The crater has been extensively eroded, but is believed to originally have been as much as 300 kilometers (185 miles) across. endobj Based on your observations, what is the probable order of occurrence of A, B, C, and D in Figure 5 (i.e., which came first, second, third, last)? Clay and silt are less than 1/256 mm. Learn how these processes work and how they formed more than 300.000 craters on the Moon. 9). Astronomy Gift Shop: http://www.astronomydvd.com/shop.aspx How were the Moon's craters and maria formed? <>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 17 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 1>> This crater is about 20 kilometers (12 miles) across and has a large central peak and terraces around its rim. Impact craters are relatively shallow, so these "dents" in Earth's rocky . Moreover, the principles of superposition and cross-cutting relations indicate that a feature which at least partly covers another feature is the younger. Light colors, including white, light gray, tan and pink, indicate a felsic composition. This will result in the formation of central uplifts and ring systems, and we may now refer to these as central-uplift or central-peak craters, peak-ring craters or multi-ring craters establishing the group of so-called complex impact craters or complex impact structures (Fig. The impactor is shattered into small pieces and may melt or vaporize. A complex crater in the northern region of Mars. Look this information up in your lab manual once the mineral has been identified.StreakColor of the mineral when it is powdered.Grind a small amount of a mineral into a powder on a porcelain streak plate and determine the color of the powder.TasteNerve ending reaction in the tongue to different chemicals.Lick the mineral. !#\k]k)3f}2Xyb=Np. Although craters look like imprints of a giant fist smashing the ground inward, impact shock waves have the opposite effect, which planetary scientists divide into three phases. Scientists estimate that Earth and the other terrestrial planets are struck by, on average, five asteroids less than 2 kilometers (a little over 1 mile) across every million years. Explain how you can tell. Venus has fewer craters; its surface has been covered recently (in the last 500 million years!) Fig. As a rule of thumb, older surfaces have been exposed to impacting bodies (meteoroids, asteroids, and comets) for a longer period of time than younger surfaces. Thank you for your participation! Name _____ COSMORPHOLOGY - May 2009 Geologic landforms Purpose: By studying aerial photographs you will learn to identify different kinds of geologic features based on their different morphologies and learn the processes involved in their formation. The Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, is not visible at the surface of the seafloor. Very similar, but still different, therefore two different minerals. 12. Study area : Reuyl crater (9.6S, 166.9E) diam e-ter and depth is ~84 km and ~2.6 km respectively (Fig.1 a). Multi-ring basin Mona Lisa on Venus. Fig. The number of very large craters in the southern highlands implies a substantial age for the surface. Olympus Mons is only one of four huge volcanoes in a 3000 km-wide region called Tharsis. % Craters most often are circular. Vesicular texture is formed when lava solidifies before gases are able to escape. Quartz has a hardness of 7, which makes it difficult to scratch. In concurrence with this result, the crater age . Were still searching for a clue to deduce that.. What process do you think formed Apollinaris Patera? Keep track of the craters you measured. Sand is clasts between 1/16 and 2 mm in size, and gravel is greater than 2 mm. The modification stage of impact cratering. The crater is about 1.2 kilometers (a little more than 0.5 miles) across and 200 meters (650 feet) deep. [ 11 0 R] Larger craters can have terraces, central peaks, and multiple rings. Consider the relationship between Ma'adim Vallis and Gusev, the 160 km . Valley systems cut through many of the cratered terrains of Mars and have characteristics analogous to water-cut valleys on Earth. Valleys on western Chryse Planitia near Viking 1 site. Examine the caldera (labeled A) and describe its shape. 8. Ius Chasma, part of the Valles Marineris system. It has a raised rim around the edge, and nice, sharp features. The Measurer should measure from the ground to how high the rock is, and ask the Recorder to write down that height under the heading "Meteor 1, Trial 1". Limestone may or may not contain fossils. The larger size gives the foliation a slighly shiny appearance. Degraded craters -- Craters that have become eroded due to weathering, lava flows, impacting, or downslope movement of material. These are not commonly tested for in an introductory lab. Lake Toba in Sumatra, the largest volcanic structure on Earth, is an example of an enormous caldera that has filled with water over time. FZ@g(.T*+cv|JfhPR. eA@QBeDT_g[HDJX9D |! ~.5Svs)-b[E9it 9u{-rJ:Lcl F9"8 t(L)Npg:zS}"V|9)4ahyQ!rYkMd8{AY$ eCD:2BRPm-974WY\. This suggests that the transient crater collapse in the modification stage is largely driven by gravity (gMoon ~ 1/6 gEarth). Impact Craters. 16 0 obj Tycho meteorite crater on the Moon. How many objects from space impact Earth each year? 10 0 obj endobj This new crater candidate with fluvial morphological units preserved on the floor lead to understand the nature of fluvial processes . Firsoff is an impact crater in the region called Meridiani Planum in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 2.66N latitude and 9.42W longitude.It is 90 km in diameter. Before focusing on this important question, we have first to clarify the meaning of the term meteorite impact crater or impact structure. Such a high-speed impact produces a crater that is approximately 20 times larger in diameter than the impacting object. Its features, such as the ejecta blanket beyond its rim, are well preserved because of the crater's youth; it has not experienced extensive erosion. . Hesperia Planum, showing bright windstreaks associated with some of the craters. While many minerals share common physical properties, when all of a mineral's physical properties are examined, it often results in a unique set of physical properties which can be used to identify the mineral. There will be another Chicxulub-size impact event, he said. 13). The texture of an igneous rock does not refer to the roughness or smoothness of the surface. Scientists describe other types of craters as well: How are large craters different than small ones? Fig. Spreading outwards from the point of contact, compressive shock waves are permanently reflected from the free target surface as tensile rarefaction waves of comparable intensities and, like the shock waves, are propagated downwards. Gypsum is relatively soft (Hardness =2) and can be scratched easily with a fingernail. Color is often an indicator of the composition of a rock or mineral and can be effectively used to identify the composition of most igneous rocks. The two most notable are obsidian and dunite. Therefore, a simplified system is used based on texture and composition. Part of the ejecta of the larger crater was molten, melted rock and formed flows. Mars, like the Earth, has seasons. (Viking image 645A57) 6. 1}bRX12AMAWQe'=u"tP]]!|SdX"uk3&~m?B?_OuG+ s6S x> PY4/'!~OFZUT=ayZBxY`=j 0 "(_Cye@2UGDkA;$V+ "+.m (80 km diameter). Erosion is the dominant geologic process acting on Mars today. Three processes help Earth keep its surface crater free. 16. Which of the four geologic processes do you think formed this channel? What happens to the transient crater? endstream Albite and anorthite are two examples. Given such drastic, far-reaching outcomes of space rock impacts, Kring said that studying crater formation holds the answer to understand not only how life on Earth began but also how it could be wiped away again in a future, perhaps inevitable, K-T event. Justify your answer. Earth has weather, water, and plants. Meteors incorrectly called shooting stars are the streaks of light created as particles of dust and ice vaporize in our atmosphere. Fig. These are not visible to the unaided eye. Such outbursts can be violent enough that once the eruption is over, the volcano collapses in on its empty vacant magma chamber and forms a caldera, or volcanic crater. 3. More about the doublet crater. Earth continues to be a target and contrary to popular opinion, the Moon does not act as a meteoroid deflector (it is too small and too distant!). <> rought The right side of Figure 12.4 shows a rift zone on Venus. The large circular dark areas in the image are impact basins, created as huge impactors struck the Moon. Download Planetary_Geology PDF for free. 2) we may think it somehow formed from an identical mechanism. More about these experiments can be read on the Chiemgau impact website where a hypervelocity impact video may be downloaded. Essentially, the minerals are randomly oriented. The twoprojectile produced a pair of rimmed simple, bowl-shaped craters quite similar to the dual craters from Fig. !dKG>$D1vAn Ey kde/5RehK;(V+SP;6$:wr7s]0 qh@3rFWTkiuZuC1:e`Di*{"Ge[mIGl e `GRqu]MVte4O.)XPN!QgL!eQ!7*hM,5n7OS@yoY.B>f6>x>/RNR84l,Q/b&^RA,`?l'&)sH,s@+xL:|F+08l7lF4)2BYcJOo!!g3+Ct B |2x G.eG 6`:qTC+K\dI,h^&Q!dZ 7b1UxrxU_60cPYTPOX4RExd-w9+ X'SdFht'~Y=3sQf>\B5y[s{pq],1lbl>{|>?wDxLK#2'UF*$QtiQV9C9MBfKQGR"'#6x T^!mx{8w'IN^p_R ,0IRf2/k-l^cX;;uD+ Planetary_Geology was published by lavit shetty on 2021-11-18. Most obsidian is felsic in composition, yet typically it will have a very dark color (dark brown to black). 4). HYPERLINK "../Honors227/Images/10_2.jpg"Figure 2. Fig. Note: This is a large Adobe Acrobat PDF file: "craters_activity.pdf" (8.5 Mb), so you may want to download to your computer. Non-foliated textures are identified by their lack of planar character. 12. The structure of the transient crater is widely preserved, and we are left with a simple or bowl-shaped impact crater (Fig. Sand and dust particles carried by the wind form dunes and windstreaks. Computations suggest craters that were formed by a low-density projectile are flatter and have distinctly larger diameter ratios (compared to the above-mentioned one-to-ten ratio of projectile and crater diameter). And the trump card, plate tectonics, that recycles much of the planets crust over millions of years and smooths away blemishes left by cosmic impacts. Slaty cleavage is composed of platy minerals that are too small to see. 14. However, there are exceptions. Ma'adim Vallis (labeled C) is the channel in the southeastern part of the image. The curious central mound within the craters can be explained by Hertzian and spallation fracturing on collision with the hard hailstones. endobj Typically bowl-shaped craters. <> The diameter of the each miniature craters is 5 10 mm. Early in the formation of our solar system (before 3.9 billion years ago) there was lots of large debris striking the surfaces of the young planets and moons; these older impact basins are larger than the more recent craters. Image credit: NASA. 14. Volcanism has produced vast lava flows, broad shield volcanoes, and plains of volcanic material. 7. Further identification of non-foliated rocks is dependent on the composition of the minerals or components in the rock. 18. in Reuyl crater located along the dichotomy boundary (west of Apollinaris Mons ). Craters are roughly circular, excavated holes made by impact events. On Earth, impact craters are harder to recognize because of weathering and erosion of its surface. Near the footprint in the above picture, you can see many small "pock-marks." These marks are the craters made by microscopic particles that hit the surface moving at speeds of several kilometers per second. Are the craters you observe older or younger than the valleys? Essentially, the Moon's surface has not been modified since early in its history, so most of its craters are still visible. Textures are based primarily on crystal size. Halite has a hardness of 2.5 and cannot be scratched by a fingernail (unpolished fingernail). > h] bjbj!! and J.A. Ds8d9B nNPS,*_y\v`/>wou__]ewPcLkUU$~z-S|lj O/#lr 9]_nc5u$9a4GVKwsaG|4ot6%?F3Xa:K1r=1\Sw Determine and record the diameter of Apollinaris Patera? <> When an asteroidal or cometary object strikes a planetary surface, it is traveling typically at several tens of kilometres per secondmany times the speed of sound.A collision at such extreme speeds is called a hypervelocity impact. Mercury and the Moon are covered with impact craters; their surfaces are very old. Since tectonic plate movements has erased much of Earths crater record, the answers to the lingering questions about crater formation and timelines lie in the exquisitely preserved craters on the moon. These temperatures are enough to more or less completely vaporize the impactor and a volume of the target rocks roughly comparable to the volume of the impactor, resulting in a giant expanding impact vapor plume. Lastly, pyroclastic texture is composed of volcanic fragments. 4 0 obj 18. <> A good example is diamond and graphite. The inner walls of the crater have collapsed to form a series of step-like terraces, and a central peak is visible in the center of the image. endobj Look for areas where the light reflects from planar surfaces. Image courtesy of D. Roddy through the Lunar and Planetary Institute. The edges of these larger craters also may slump, creating terraces that step down into the crater. The cratering process will help reveal what type of material makes up the nucleus (or at least the outer layer), and therefore how the comet formed and evolved. Suggest some ways in which the scarp around Olympus Mons might have formed. The force can catapult chunks of molten and solid rock hundreds of miles from the impact site this material is known as ejecta flow. {u/ 8`&_@ug,jbAM$[$oPocqM9K'5u"gY2;!1Nb$NfMc,cl9{=ZY6m#v]b1$m|"^K)Ks7q~B-=Cdl/)q&eHdiT) %Iwd`y\*/[Cr|R>/cRN]UyYIcF8`wiaV>bzw]'b+DZbV;zdge4e=00%9)q@B|~1QV, V=~ERZRm -Y These stages are: the contact and compression stage (Fig. <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> What happens if a comet or a very low-density, loosely bound asteroid (like Mathilde asteroid, Fig. This flow field grows with time, and the rock mass flow is directed upwards, sideward and downwards. Scientists rely on geophysical images for information about its size and shape. During the excavation phase, the massive shock wave causes the projectile to simultaneously melt and vaporize, spewing plumes of searing hot rock vapor miles high into the atmosphere. . d. Maadim Vallis is the channel in the southeast part of the photograph, marked C. Which of the four processes do you think formed Maadim Vallis? Fig. How can you tell? A comparable process is observed with the peculiar shock-deformed Buntsandstein conglomerates in Spain and is in more detail explainedHERE. Source: https://news.discovery.com/earth/how-are-craters-formed.html, Center for Planetary Exploration (CPEx) Opens at Stony Brook University. 10. Three types of sedimentary rock "texture" are clastic, chemical, and biologic. This "period of heavy bombardment" ended by about 3.9 billion years ago. 4. Different chemical compositions result in different minerals. Fig. What are some of Earth's famous impact craters? Procedures and Questions: Part 4 The Hesperia region in the southern hemisphere consists of cratered plains which have been modified by aeolian processes. 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