GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016

Session No. 290
Wednesday, 28 September 2016: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 201 (Colorado Convention Center)

T165. Impact Cratering on Earth and throughout the Solar System

GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Geophysics Division; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division
Christian Koeberl and Jeffrey Plescia, Advocates
8:00 AM
A CONTINENTAL-SCALE PROCELLARUM IMPACT’S POTENTIAL RELEVANCE TO MANY UNRESOLVED ISSUES OF LUNAR AND TERRESTRIAL HISTORY
SCHMITT, Harrison H., Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, P.O. Box 90730, Albuquerque, NM 87199, hhschmitt@earthlink.net
8:15 AM
SOUTH POLE-AITKEN BASIN FORMING IMPACT EXCAVATES MOON’S UPPER MANTLE
KENDALL, Jordan, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, 525 Northwestern Ave, West Lafayette, IN 47907 and MELOSH, Jay, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, 550 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, 525 Northwestern Ave, West Lafayette, IN 47907, kendallj@purdue.edu
8:30 AM
THE FIRST FIELD GEOLOGIC MAPS ON ANOTHER PLANET: COMPLEX CRATER STRUCTURE AND DRAPE FOLDS (Invited Presentation)
CRUMPLER, L.S. and MER, Science Team, New Mexico Museum of Nat History and Sci, 1801 Mountain Rd. NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104, larry.crumpler@state.nm.us
8:45 AM
IMPACT MELT RHEOLOGY
PLESCIA, Jeffrey, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Drive, Laurel, MD 20723-6099, jeffrey.plescia@jhuapl.edu
9:00 AM
IMPACT, FRACTURE AND FRAGMENTATION (Invited Presentation)
RAMESH, K.T., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., 140 Malone Hall, Baltimore, MD 21218; Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, ramesh@jhu.edu
9:15 AM
IMPACT DELIVERY OF WATER DURING IMPACTS BY HYDRATED ASTEROIDS: INSIGHTS FROM HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT EXPERIMENTS
DALY, R. Terik, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, 324 Brook St, Box 1846, Providence, RI 02912 and SCHULTZ, Peter H., Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science, Brown University, P.O. Box 1846, Providence, RI 02912, terik_daly@brown.edu
9:30 AM
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND SURFACE AGE ON MERCURY
SUSORNEY, Hannah C.M., Earth and Planetary Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, BARNOUIN, Olivier S., Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 and ERNST, Carolyn M., Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723, hsusorn1@jhu.edu
9:45 AM
WHEN AND WHY DO ASTEROIDS COLLIDE IN THE ASTEROID BELT? EVIDENCE FROM THE SEDIMENTARY RECORD
SCHMITZ, Birger, Astrogeobiology Laboratory, Department of Physics, Lund University, Lund, 22100, Sweden; Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605; Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI 96822, birger.schmitz@nuclear.lu.se
10:00 AM
REWORKED AND K-METASOMATIZED EJECTA FROM THE SUDBURY IMPACT OCCURS IN MULTIPLE BEDS IN THE GOGEBIC IRON RANGE, WISCONSIN, USA
CANNON, William F., US Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr, MS 954, Reston, VA 20192-0001, WOODRUFF, Laurel G., U.S. Geological Survey, 2280 Woodale Drive, Mounds View, MN 55112 and SAARI, Stacy, Global Minerals Engineering, Hibbing, MN 55746, wcannon@usgs.gov
10:15 AM
ASTEROID-GENERATED TSUNAMI (Invited Presentation)
BOSLOUGH, Mark B.1, AFTOSMIS, Michael J.2, BERGER, Marsha3, EZZEDINE, Souheil4, GISLER, Galen5, JENNINGS, Barbara1, LEVEQUE, Randall J.6, MATHIAS, Donovan2, MCCOY, Cynthia7, ROBERTSON, Darrel K.2, TITOV, Vasily8 and WHEELER, Lorien2, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, (3)New York University, New York, NY 10012, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Engineering Directorate, P.O.Box 808, M/S L-126, Livermore, CA 94551, (5)University of Oslo, Oslo, 0316, Norway, (6)University of Washington, Seattle, WA 94035, (7)Federal Emergency Management Agency, Philadelphia, PA 19106, (8)NOAA Center for Tsunami Research, University of Washington, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, mbboslo@sandia.gov
10:30 AM
THE CHALLENGES OF INVESTIGATING POTENTIAL IMPACT STRUCTURES IN ANCIENT TECTONIC TERRANES: A CASE STUDY FROM WOODBURY, GEORGIA, USA
HARRIS, R. Scott, Department of Space Sciences, Fernbank Science Center, 156 Heaton Park Drive, Atlanta, GA 30307, JARET, Steven J., Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2100 and ALBIN, Edward F., Department of Space Studies, American Public University, 111 W. Congress Street, Charles Town, WV 25414, scott.harris@fernbank.edu
10:45 AM
A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY: THE "WOODBURY STRUCTURE" OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
MILLER, Jeremy L. and BARINEAU, Clinton I., Earth and Space Sciences, Columbus State University, 4225 University Avenue, Columbus, GA 31907-5645, miller_jeremy2@columbusstate.edu
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11:15 AM
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11:00 AM
LIGHTNING STRIKE GLASSES: THERMODYNAMICAL EFFECTS ON THE FORMATION OF ROCK FULGURITE FROM BAVENO-MOTTARONE (ITALY)
ELMI, Chiara, CHEN, Jiangzhi, GOLDSBY, David L. and GIERE, Reto, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, 240 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, chiarael@sas.upenn.edu
11:30 AM
GLASSES AND MELT FRAGMENTS POSSIBLY RELATED TO THE HIROSHIMA NUCLEAR EXPLOSION AS IMPACT GLASS ANALOGS
KOEBERL, Christian1, WANNIER, Mario M.A.2, DE URREIZTIETA, Marc2, TOPA, Dan3 and BRANDSTAETTER, Franz4, (1)Department of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria, also of the Natural History Museum, Burgring 7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria, (2)Petronas, PEX/PCSB, Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, 50088, Malaysia, (3)Natural History Museum, Burgring 7, Vienna, 1010, Austria, (4)Mineralogy and Petrology, Natural History Museum, Burgring 7, Vienna, A1010, Austria, christian.koeberl@univie.ac.at
11:45 AM
INSIGHTS INTO IMPACT MELT CONDITIONS FROM DISSOCIATED ZIRCON IN MEDIEVAL TIN SLAG
CAVOSIE, Aaron J., Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University, Perth, 6102, Australia, TIMMS, Nick, Applied Geology, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, W, Australia and FARTHING, Dori J., Department of Geological Sciences, SUNY-Geneseo, 1 College Circle, Geneseo, NY 14454, aaron.cavosie@curtin.edu.au
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