The Puchezh-Katunki Impact Crater - Geology and Origin

This book presents essential data on the geology of the Puchezh-Katunki crater - an early Jurassic crater located on the East European Platform, with an impact structure that is ca. 80 km in diameter. Offering a comprehensive guide, it reviews the studies carried out during the last several decades on this prominent but not well-known impact structure. It offers the international community state-of-the-art information on the crater with regard to e.g. structural mapping, drilling (including the Vorotilovo well, which is 5374 m deep), geophysical research, and the petrological analysis of impactites and various breccias. In addition, the book includes new results from the mineralization and crystallizations beneath this large impact crater, and suggests new models for crater formations.

List of contents

The Research History of the Puchezh-Katunki Structure.- Geological Framework of the Impact Site.- Interior Structure and Composition  of Impact-generated and Impact-transformed.-  Processes of Transformations of Crystalline Rocks of the Central Uplift.- Dynamic Modeling of the Puchezh-Katunki Impact Structure.

Product details

• Assisted by: Victo L Masaitis (Editor), Victor L Masaitis (Editor), Victor L. Masaitis (Editor), Mikhail V. Naumov (Editor), V Naumov (Editor), V Naumov (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2021
• EAN: 9783030320454
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3032045-4
• No. of pages: 213
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 12 mm x 235 mm
• Illustrations: XII, 213 p.
• Series: Impact Studies
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology