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Dating impact craters: palaeogeographic versus isotopic and stratigraphic methods – a brief case study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2008

MARTIN SCHMIEDER  and
ELMAR BUCHNER
MARTIN SCHMIEDER*
Affiliation:
Institut für Planetologie, Universität Stuttgart, Herdweg 51, D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany
ELMAR BUCHNER
Affiliation:
Institut für Planetologie, Universität Stuttgart, Herdweg 51, D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany
*
*Author for correspondence: martin.schmieder@geologie.uni-stuttgart.de
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Abstract

Isotopic and stratigraphic ages of the ~ 80 km diameter Puchezh-Katunki (Russia; 220 ± 10 to 167 ± 3 Ma) and the ~ 20 km diameter Obolon (Ukraine; 215 ± 25 to 169 ± 7 Ma) impact structures are associated with significant age uncertainties. As a case study, reconstructions of the palaeogeography at the time of crater formation (Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic) based on recent palaeogeographic maps help further to constrain impact ages. Palaeogeographic studies suggest that Puchezh-Katunki is older than 170 Ma and that Obolon is younger than 185 Ma. This also rules out that Obolon formed during a ~ 214 Ma Late Triassic multiple impact event as recently discussed.

Keywords

impact structuredatingpalaeogeographymarine impact
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Rapid Communication
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Geological Magazine , Volume 145 , Issue 4 , July 2008 , pp. 586 - 590
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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