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dc.contributor.authorShyamPrasad, M.
dc.contributor.authorKhedekar, V.D.
dc.date.accessioned2008-07-18T05:45:18Z
dc.date.available2008-07-18T05:45:18Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.identifier.citationMeteoritics and Planetary Science, Vol.38; 1351-1371p.
dc.identifier.urihttp://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/1254
dc.description.abstractScanning electron microscopy of 137 Australian microtekties and fragments from 4 sediments cores in the Central Indian Ocean reveals more than 2000 impact-generated features in the size range of 0.3 to 600 mu m. Three distinct impact types are recognized: destructive, erosive, and accretionery. A large variation in impact energy is seen in terms of catastrophic destruction demonstrated by fragmented microtektites through erosive impacts comprising glass-lined pit craters, stylus pit craters, pitless craters, and a small number of accretionery features as well. The size range of observed microtektites is from 180 to 2320 mu m, and not only are the smaller microtektites seen to have the largest number of impacts, but most of these impacts are also of the erosive category, indicating that target temperature is an important factor for retaining impact-generated features. Further, microcratering due to collisions in impact-generated plumes seems to exist on a larger and more violent scale than previously known. Although the microcraters are produced in a terrestrially generated impact plume, they resemble lunar microcraters in many ways: (1) the size range of impacts and crater morphology variation with increasing size; (2) dominant crater number densities in mu m and sub-mu m sizes. Therefore, taktite-producing impacts can lead to the generation of microcraters that mimic those found on lunar surface materials, and for the lunar rocks to qualify as reliable cosmic dust flux detectors, their tumbling histories and lunar surface orientations have to be known precisely
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMeteoritical Society
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dc.subjectextraterrestrial material
dc.subjectsediments
dc.subjectelectron microscopy
dc.subjectcosmic dust
dc.titleImpact microcrater morphology on Australian microtektites
dc.typeJournal Article


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