Justify your answer. Impact basins are very large impact structures that are more than 300 kilometers (185 miles) in diameter. Craters come in two flavors: those that aren't caused by asteroids or comets, impact craters, are formed by powerful volcanic explosions. Craters are roughly circular, excavated holes made by impact events. 23. Sedimentary rock identification is primarily based on composition. 4 0 obj 13. Image: Google Earth. ExDsD ;;8-E:(] Albite has a chemical composition of NaAlSi3O8, while anorthite's chemical compositon is CaAl2Si2O8. Based on the number and morphology of craters, is this a relatively old or young region of Mars? 19.) The modification stage of impact cratering. Craters produced by the collision of a meteorite with the Earth (or another planet or moon) are called impact craters. 5. It has a summit caldera some 80 km wide. Ma'adim Vallis is the channel in the southeast part of the photograph, marked C. Which of the four processes do you think formed Ma'adim Vallis? The circular shape is due to material flying out in all directions as a result of the explosion upon impact, not a result of the impactor having a circular shape (almost no impactors are spherical). 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. 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. 21. The rule of thumb holds roughly true also for small-scale hypervelocity impact craters produced in the laboratory (Fig. In the case of small transient craters, modifications are moderate. Coquina is composed almost entirely of shell or fossil fragments. h_X CJ$ h_X H* h_X 5h_X h_X 5>* h=X@ 5CJ he > 5CJ h_X 5CJ h 5CJ h 5CJ. What geologic process do you think formed Reuyl (labeled B)? First, the impactor rushes toward the surface. A mystery concerning water on Mars is "Where did it go?" HYPERLINK "../Honors227/Images/10_5.jpg"Figure 5. Ma'adim Vallis is the channel in the southeast part of the photograph, marked C. Which of the four processes do you think formed Ma'adim Vallis? -+eh5 L*]>;ppq So far we have considered the impact of a solid object like a stony or iron meteorite. Small craters often are simple bowl-shaped depressions. The image shows ring-like structures that extend to about 280 kilometers (175 miles) from the center. Large crustal blocks were merging together to create the . Plagioclase is a member of the feldspar group, but there is more than one type of plagioclase. Both craters are roughly 300 or so meters across; you could walk briskly across them in a couple of minutes. (a) Geomorphic map of Reuyl crater. These processes expose old, long-buried materials, making them accessible to probes and . Earth has weather, water, and plants. A crater is a bowl-shaped depression, or hollowed-out area, produced by the impact of a meteorite, volcanic activity, or an explosion. Fig. This "period of heavy bombardment" ended by about 3.9 billion years ago. Fig. They leave very characteristic features. Cooling of the magma can occur beneath the surface (plutonic) or on the surface (volcanic). 15. Different crystalline structures, or how the atoms and molecules are arranged, result in different minerals. HYPERLINK "../Honors227/Images/10_4.jpg"Figure 4. T U ; = B } ~ x z h_X B* CJ ph h_X B* ph Therefore, older surfaces have more impact craters. The keys to this definition are the chemical composition and the crystalline structure. Extensional stresses have led to the formation of great valleys such as Valles Marineris, the longest canyon system in the solar system. Mars, like the Earth, has seasons. Procedures and Lab Questions to be Turned In: Part 1 Olympus Mons is a shield volcano 600 km in diameter, towering 25 km above the surrounding plain. Venus has fewer craters; its surface has been covered recently (in the last 500 million years!) This is clearly different from normal, endogenetic geological processes such as volcanism, earthquakes, tsunamis or other tectonic events. It is the oldest and largest impact crater recognized on Earth's surface. i~4?7Z"UJmiCwbes%7Vo}bf_iK4Ev, u4J_8(Vjj#W]^`:*I23SPPEX `p-1sU?"_F4I=?^i(.i]V The force of the impacts create circular structures with raised rimmed wall; spatters of mud and smaller circular secondary craters may be seen (Fig. NN `GF9A`U l8_g1g}=""Px2q$O@Y8)Oq-9O{2NW?`9:uMuBiO2qd]{%= LX'K JI,ZbXr}n9=^,eIgtU_=F#-K}_^(qyk1bZe|}elK)&Hc:GVtOd~Y@0IA$2i hvF~/_?g@-)(|#)s5.eK%x]G4;kY|^B8I(JY4+Tl7l1Q)>.ux92BfiYnWy%:./#5*j?hv`SEzY8D7\I&RdEO)I[G*ZGy7HjkvKXE@tiYrG:f3' uoiTK"EF]d[59qqgrP~ "UJ|gmPBO(+aS7Gj{k}xeET]A EIx-X]28dy,}Isx.cepq 7rbr:^v4>iHJgEqA&`DA.FYle1}7#W;G-+h Although craters look like imprints of a giant fist smashing the ground inward, impact shock waves have the opposite effect, which planetary scientists divide into three phases. Why does the Moon have so many craters while Earth has so few? However, there are exceptions. <> (b) Contour map derived from the MOLA 463m/pixel DTM, with the . Porphyritic texture is composed of crystals of two different sizes. From the geological map (Tanaka et al., 2014) it is evident that Reuyl crater formed over a Noachian-Hesperian dichotomy boundary surface. The largest impact basin on the Moon is 2500 kilometers (1550 miles) in diameter and more than 12 kilometers (7 miles) deep. Then, elongated craters may be formed, and the ejecta blanket may considerably deviate from a circular symmetry. The structure of large craters is more complex because they collapse, forming terraces, central peaks, central pits, or multiple rings. Image credit: NASA. Ds8d9B nNPS,*_y\v`/>wou__]ewPcLkUU$~z-S|lj O/#lr 9]_nc5u$9a4GVKwsaG|4ot6%?F3Xa:K1r=1\Sw And again, one might suspect a process similar to rock tossed into mud. 20. 11. Impact craters allow scientists to study a planet's geological historyeven when the records are buried beneath the surface. Look for areas where the light reflects from planar surfaces. endobj . Image courtesy of V. L. Sharpton through the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Very large impact craters greater than 300 kilometers (185 miles) across are called impact basins. How scientists solved the riddle of these mysterious landforms. Thus, if a valley cuts through a crater, the crater must be older. This crater is believed to have formed when an asteroid struck Earth 65 million years ago. Fig. Three types of sedimentary rock "texture" are clastic, chemical, and biologic. Valleys on western Chryse Planitia near Viking 1 site. [Hint: use the principle of cross-cutting relations to justify your answer.] 3), and the central mound in the craters shown in Fig. Simple Craters . Textures are based primarily on crystal size. 8. 10 12 exemplify typical terrestrial structures. At that time, however, the physics of impact cratering implying shock physics was not yet understood. The classification of metamorphic rocks is based on the minerals that are present and the temperature and pressure at which these minerals form. Scientists also think that faster cooling, like when lava is exposed to water, may also help with the formation of these columns. The larger size gives the foliation a slighly shiny appearance. Approximately 80% of Earth's surface is less than 200 million years old, while over 99% of the Moon's surface is more than 3 billion years old. 3. Mass movement is the displacement of material by landslides or slumping through the action of gravity. Media Policy A central-uplift (central peak) crater (Gow, Canada, 4 km diameter). On a world with an atmosphere, the object is heated by friction with the blanket of air. How the atoms and molecules are arranged and the strength of the bonding between the atoms result in different physical properties for different minerals. Nrdlinger Ries. (Hint: the region slopes to the north.) When a meteor makes it through Earths atmosphere without burning up, it strikes the ground faster than the speed of sound. But the environmental effects of impact crater formation go far beyond forming benign basins. Halite has a hardness of 2.5 and cannot be scratched by a fingernail (unpolished fingernail). Image from the Mars Global Surveyor, courtesy of the Lunar and Planetary Institute. These fragments or clasts can be very fine (ash) or coarse (lapilli) or very coarse (bombs and blocks). Gosses Bluff (Tnorala) Pingualuit Crater. Few, if any, crystals will be visible. endobj Fig. (Viking MDIM Volume 4) 15. American Geological Institute, Alexandria, VA, 788 p. Igneous rocks are rocks that solidify from molten material (magma). 10. xTO@~^^g!$(01D=l{t What process do you think formed Reuyl crater (marked B on Figure 5)? As on the Moon, Mercury, Venus, and most of the outer planet satellites, impact craters are found on the surface of Mars. Measure and record the diameter of Olympus Mons. It is colder inside some craters near the lunar poles than it is on the surface of Pluto (25K, or -415F). Note the remarkable difference to the crater-projectile ratio in Fig. Quartzite is composed of quartz sand grains. The crater is 2 kilometers (about 1 mile) wide. Impact cratering is the excavation of a planet's surface when it is struck by a meteoroid. The faster the incoming impactor, the larger the crater. How big, e.g. Meteors incorrectly called shooting stars are the streaks of light created as particles of dust and ice vaporize in our atmosphere. The excavation stage of impact cratering. 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. 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. HVsT{! The crater was created instantly when a 50m, 150,000-ton meteor slammed into the desert about 50,000 years ago. xZms|fl d;NrHIM. 7. 3 0 obj This, however, requires chemical equipment and apparatus that is unavailable in this lab. Compare Apollinaris Patera (marked A on Figure 5) to Olympus Mons (Figure 1). In impact research, the subdivision of the crater-forming process into three main stages has generally been accepted. If an impactor is large enough, some of the material pushed toward the edges of the crater will slump back toward the center and the rock beneath the crater will rebound, or push back up, creating a central peak in the crater. Which of the four geologic processes do you think formed this channel? 18. 20. The polar caps shrink during local summer and grow during local winter. Peak ring crater Rachmaninoff on Mercury. The size and shape of the crater and the amount of material excavated depends on factors such as the velocity and mass of the impacting body and the geology of the surface. Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility (IDEA). Press, Oxford, 1989. Here again, the difference is obvious: In the case of cobble-into-mud or raindrop impacts the craters are not much larger than the projectile (Fig. Scientists describe other types of craters as well: How are large craters different than small ones? At the edges of lunar maria, there are often damaged walls of craters formed before the maria. Craters can be used to determine the relative ages of Martian surface materials; in general, older surfaces have craters which are more numerous, larger, and more degraded than those on young surfaces. Melosh, H.J. The large number of craters in this region indicates that this part of the Moon is quite ancient. 13) hits the earth? It is the oldest and largest impact crater recognized on Earth's surface. The bottom line is, everything that happened on the moon happened on the Earth, said David Kring, crater expert and team leader for Center for Lunar Science and Exploration. Moreover, the principles of superposition and cross-cutting relations indicate that a feature which at least partly covers another feature is the younger. 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. January 2014; There are some interesting erosional signs in this observation, which will make for a good comparison with other intracrater fans and fluvial sedimentary landforms. Gneissic banding is the easiest of the foliations to recognize. The crater has been extensively eroded, but is believed to originally have been as much as 300 kilometers (185 miles) across. How does the mass of the projectile affect the cratering process? endobj 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". In the large 35-40 km-diameter Azuara, Spain impact structure there is stratigraphic evidence for such a nearly simultaneous excavation and collapse [click here]. 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. Moreover, the polar caps contain some water ice. rBqf]&&3|sz!g8zGci3;U%SK@~hvOg[-=A'c'Z/m~V;;Y=7V99Z}kc|O;7'1m C73C?$so/Exa2Eiu8*B,Xh${BN` d&;W;D[-"Ost"/#6N*(#wz]GU [ 11 0 R] During the final modification phase, the remainder of ejecta partially refills and rings the crater site, and debris forms a rich mineral composite called breccia. Mafic compositions are poor in silica, but rich in iron (Fe) and magnesium (Mg). The first reason is that Earth's surface is continuously changing because we live on a geologically active planet. It is composed of alternating bands of dark and light minerals. The legend is shown at the bottom with different units or features present within the crater. Unlike the rock-into-mud cratering, the excavation in impact cratering is inextricably linked with the propagation of shock waves. 9). Although the resulting depression may bear some resemblance to the hole that results from throwing a pebble into a sandbox, the . 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. Arid climate and a lack of vegetation in the vicinity of Meteor Crater make it an excellent comparison site for similar-sized impact craters on Mars, Ramsey said. Tycho meteorite crater on the Moon. Heavy elements began sinking past the oceans and magma toward the center of the planet. The somewhat blurred contours are not surprising giventhe impact happened into water and a soft, water-saturated target rock. Volcanism has produced vast lava flows, broad shield volcanoes, and plains of volcanic material. These are not visible to the unaided eye. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Learn how these processes work and how they formed more than 300.000 craters on the Moon. Over the course of a few hundred million years, the planet began to cool and oceans of liquid water formed. A good example is diamond and graphite. Fig. 10 0 obj Computer simulations show that the modification process may already begin before standstill of the excavation leading to large-scale countermovement of rock masses. Measure and record the width of the Ius Chasma. Glassy texture is the most readily recognized. Thank you for your participation! endobj The general story of an impact follows a pretty predictable process. What happens when an impactor hits? April 8, 2015. endobj Something we dont understand very well on the geological side (of crater formation) is, we still find it difficult to determine the trajectory of impacting objects for most impact craters, Kring said. Compare the size of Ius Chasma and its tributaries to the size of the Grand Canyon of Arizona (approximate length=175 km and maximum width=29km). This of course is primarily a matter of energy related with the projectiles mass (and therefore density) and impact velocity, and, subordinately, also a matter of the target lithology. Sometimes, impact structures are distinguished from impact craters by their weak morphological signature compared with a true crater. Diameter 290 km. These definitions and methods are simplified. What are craters? Elastic rebound and collapse cause the excavation trajectories to go into reverse in a way, and the rock masses tend to move upwards and centripetally thus, accompanied by large-scale downfaulting, largely backfilling the transient crater. and J.A. 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. They concluded this from the already mentioned prevailing frequency of oblique impact trajectories leading in the majority, in their opinion, to craters of elliptical shape. An extensive blanket of ejecta covers the area around the rim. Lava later flowed across the low floors of the basins, giving them a darker, smoother appearance than the surrounding, brighter highlands. Non-foliated textures have minerals that are not aligned. This crater is about 20 kilometers (12 miles) across and has a large central peak and terraces around its rim. Dunite is composed almost entirely of the mineral olivine which usually contains both iron and magnesium. Through a combination of these principles, the relative ages of geologic features can be determined, and a sequence of geologic events developed. Jackson (eds. 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. Image source: NASA. As a result, there are only around 160 known impact craters in existence today (though there are surely more that haven't been discovered). 1). Privacy Policy| 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. 1. If the crater turns out to be gravity-dominated, this lends evidence to the theory that the comet's nucleus consists of porous, pristine, unprocessed material, and that the comet formed . Anthracite coal is generally shiny in appearance and breaks with a conchoidal fracture (broken glass also shows this type of fracture). Reuyl is a crater in the Aeolis quadrangle of Mars, located at 9.8 south latitude and 193.2 west longitude. Dark colors, such as black and dark brown, indicate a mafic or ultramafic composition. 9. 14): The crater is not much larger than the projectile. HYPERLINK "../Honors227/Images/10_1.jpg"Figure 1. Complex craters are large craters with complicated features. Fortunately, these two aspects determine a mineral's physical properties. Sand is clasts between 1/16 and 2 mm in size, and gravel is greater than 2 mm. It measures 85.9 kilometers in diameter and was named after Dirk Reuyl, a Dutch-American physicist and astronomer (19061972) who made astronomical measurements of the diameter of Mars in the 1940s.[1]. These volcanoes erupted repeatedly over many millions of years, growing higher with each lava flow. (Viking mosaic P-17698) 9. endobj Roter Kamm Crater. HYPERLINK "../Honors227/Images/10_2.jpg"Figure 2. 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. The Crater Maker should stand over their sand-filled container and hold their arm out at the height they are going to drop it. 2. | and more. Transcript (121 KB) Overview : Impact cratering is, arguably, the most important and fundamental geological process in the Solar System. Sinuous Ridge Materials in Reuyl Crater. Sand and dust particles carried by the wind form dunes and windstreaks. Source: https://news.discovery.com/earth/how-are-craters-formed.html, Center for Planetary Exploration (CPEx) Opens at Stony Brook University. Image courtesy of D. Roddy through the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Galileo Image (PIA00405), produced by the United States Geological Survey, courtesy of NASA. Pretty much any tiny dent made on the Moon's surface is going to stay there. endobj Determine and record the diameter of the caldera structure (include the over all caldera structure in this measurement). Intermediate compositions have an intermediate color, often gray or consisting of equal parts of dark and light mineral. 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. The reflected tensile stresses are insofar crucial as the tensile strength of rocks is much lower than the compressive strength. What is the diameter of the large crater towards the bottom of the image? Tychos diameter is 85 km. On Earth, impact craters are harder to recognize because of weathering and erosion of its surface. Therefore, crisp craters with upraised rims and steep sides are young, while less distinct and eroded craters with partial rims are probably older. 15 0 obj The number of very large craters in the southern highlands implies a substantial age for the surface. : 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 -# -# ! Tswaing Crater. Very similar, but still different, therefore two different minerals. The term transient crater means the cratering process continues after the excavation flow comes to rest. 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. 12. XX=S;K]3:V-j ,bxHeM?qaZ] R*Jf]x-Tfymoy{!TX&THH9C]NXg crater: [noun] the bowl-shaped depression around the orifice of a volcano. The texture of an igneous rock does not refer to the roughness or smoothness of the surface. The moons surface is riddled with craters ranging in size and structural complexity, and billions of years ago before life emerged, the Earth looked the same way. Source: Google Earth. 5 0 obj What is the texture of the ejecta flow labeled A? "It is difficult to say exactly . It has a raised rim around the edge, and nice, sharp features. Explain why you believe this is so. This impact is thought to have triggered fires and tsunamis and created a cloud of dust and water vapor that enveloped the globe in a matter of days, resulting in fluctuating global climate changes. The Moon does not. Much of Earth's surface is recycled through plate tectonic activity (and erosion), so Earth also has few craters. Before focusing on this important question, we have first to clarify the meaning of the term meteorite impact crater or impact structure. The four major geologic processes (gradation, impact cratering, tectonism, and volcanism) each produce distinct landforms. The dark basins can be seen by the naked eye. The now existing bowl-shaped structure surrounded by an uplifted rim and a blanket of ejected material is termed the transient crater obviously indicating a continuation of the impact cratering process arriving in the modification stage. In the following, these three stages are illustrated and described in a somewhat simplified manner. <> We can also see an inverted channel system, possibly ponded toward the southwest. The compression stage of crater formation involves that initial exchange of energy between the projectile and the impact area. Southern cratered highlands. (80 km diameter). Which is larger, and by how much? Degraded craters -- Craters that have become eroded due to weathering, lava flows, impacting, or downslope movement of material. (not recommended in an introductory lab - you don't know who has handled or licked the sample before you).Other PropertiesFluorescence, RadioactivityRequires special equipment such as a UV lamp and geiger counter. a depression formed by an impact (as of a meteorite). Terraces are a common feature of many large craters---for another example, look at the crater Theophilus. Procedures and Questions: Part 3 Now we examine some Valleys west of Chryse Planitia. The first is called erosion. Schistose foliation is composed of larger minerals that are visible to the unaided eye. Free essays, homework help, flashcards, research papers, book reports, term papers, history, science, politics Hb```,6 u!b`0pT 9, ",8FRc g3g86y~D#*}So ". | 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). Both will react to HCl. How can you tell? Meteor Crater is 1.2km wide and 175m deep. Procedures and Questions: Part 2 Ius Chasma is part of the western end of Valles Marineris, the largest Martian canyon. Some of this tiny debris makes it to Earth's surface and is mixed with soil and ocean sediment. The dark brown to black color is the most obvious characteristic. Simple craters are small bowl-shaped, smooth-walled craters (the maximum size limit depends on the planet). This new crater candidate with fluvial morphological units preserved on the floor lead to understand the nature of fluvial processes . 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