Shoemaker (formerly known as Teague Ring) is an impact structure, the deeply eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in arid central Western...
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Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (formally designated D/1993 F2) was a comet that broke apart in July 1992 and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the...
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Acraman impact structure is a deeply eroded impact crater in the Gawler Ranges of South Australia. Its location is marked by Lake Acraman, a circular ephemeral...
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of impact structures (including impact craters) on Earth contains the majority of the 194+ confirmed impact structures given in the Earth Impact Database...
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The Manson impact structure is an impact structure near the city of Manson, Iowa where an asteroid or comet nucleus struck the Earth during the Cretaceous...
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H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televised around the world. Shoemaker also studied terrestrial craters, such as Barringer...
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Rochechouart impact structure or Rochechouart astrobleme is an impact structure in France. Erosion has over the millions of years mostly destroyed its impact crater...
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Hammond Hess, Shoemaker studied the impact dynamics of Meteor Crater. Shoemaker noted that Meteor Crater had the same form and structure as two explosion...
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Kansas. These 38th parallel structures are thought to possibly be the result of a serial impact, similar to that of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter, an extremely...
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have encountered the Earth since the Tunguska event. The Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 impact provided the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision...
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Shocked quartz (category Impact geology)
alter the quartz lattice. Eugene Shoemaker showed that shocked quartz is also found inside craters created by meteor impact, such as the Barringer Crater...
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Spider crater (category Earth Impact Database)
Spider is an impact structure, the deeply eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia, 18 km...
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Piccaninny crater (category Earth Impact Database)
interpreted as either an impact structure or a cryptovolcanic feature. Later ground examination by E.M. and C.S. Shoemaker confirmed the presence of...
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Manicouagan Reservoir (redirect from Manicouagan impact structure)
crater may have been part of a multiple impact event, similar to the well-observed string of impacts of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 on Jupiter in 1994. The theory...
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Connolly Basin crater (category Earth Impact Database)
New Brunswick Fredericton. Retrieved 2009-08-19. Shoemaker E.M. & Shoemaker C.S. 1985. Impact structures of Western Australia. 48th Annual Meeting of the...
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Interest in the possibility of serial impacts on Earth was piqued by observations of comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 impacting on Jupiter in 1994. It has been estimated...
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Mount Toondina crater (category Earth Impact Database)
impact structure. Geological Survey of South Australia Quarterly Geological Notes 60, 10–12. Shoemaker E.M. & Shoemaker C.S. 1988. Impact Structures of...
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Lawn Hill crater (category Earth Impact Database)
Lawn Hill ‘crater’ refers to an Ordovician impact structure, the eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated approximately 220 km north-north-west...
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includes all 27 confirmed impact structures in Australia as listed in the Earth Impact Database. The following structures are officially considered "unconfirmed"...
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Meteor Crater (category Earth Impact Database)
impactor. The pieces of Canyon Diablo meteorite found scattered around the site broke away from the main body before and during the impact. Shoemaker...
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Kelly West crater (category Earth Impact Database)
Earth Impact Database. Planetary and Space Science Centre University of New Brunswick Fredericton. Retrieved 19 August 2009. Shoemaker EM, Shoemaker CS (1996)...
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Liverpool crater (category Earth Impact Database)
Bibcode:1997LPI....28.1311S. PDF Shoemaker EM, Macdonald FA, Shoemaker CS (2005). "Geology of five small Australian impact craters". Australian Journal of...
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Dalgaranga crater (category Earth Impact Database)
doi:10.1080/08120090500180921. S2CID 130096764. Shoemaker E.M. & Shoemaker C.S. 1988. Impact structures of Australia (1987). Lunar and Planetary Science...
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Tunguska event (redirect from Tunguska Impact Event)
Lukáš (14 November 2013). "The trajectory, structure and origin of the Chelyabinsk asteroidal impactor". Nature. 503 (7475): 235–237. Bibcode:2013Natur...
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Nördlinger Ries (category Impact craters of Germany)
became known. In 1960 Eugene Shoemaker and Edward C. T. Chao showed that the depression was caused by meteorite impact. The key evidence was the presence...
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Shock metamorphism (redirect from Impact metamorphism)
effects in terrestrial meteorite impact structures, Lunar and Planetary Institute 120pp. Chao, E. C. T.; Shoemaker, E. M.; Madsen, B. M. (1960). "First...
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as many impact crater lakes are. One of the largest impact crater lakes is Lake Manicouagan in Canada; the crater is a multiple-ring structure about 100 km...
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Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (redirect from K/T impact)
nearly simultaneous multiple impacts, perhaps from a fragmented asteroidal object, similar to the Shoemaker–Levy 9 cometary impact with Jupiter. Among these...
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Veevers crater (category Earth Impact Database)
77–8. Shoemaker EM, Shoemaker CS (1985). "Impact structures of Western Australia". Meteoritics. 20: 754–6. PDF Shoemaker EM, Macdonald FA, Shoemaker CS (2005)...
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Karakul crater – a large impact crater which may be just a few million years older than Eltanin List of possible impact structures on Earth Megatsunami of...
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