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DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116972
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Effect of ice sheet thickness on formation of the Hiawatha impact crater
作者: Silber E.A.; Johnson B.C.; Bjonnes E.; MacGregor J.A.; Larsen N.K.; Wiggins S.E.
刊名: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
ISSN: 0012821X
出版年: 2021
卷: 566
语种: 英语
中文关键词: craters ; ice sheets ; impacts
英文关键词: Ice ; Morphology ; Circular structures ; Crater ; Crater morphology ; Greenland Ice Sheet ; Ice mass ; Ice sheet ; Impact ; Impact craters ; Pleistocene ; Sheet thickness ; Glaciers ; crater ; crystalline rock ; glacier ; ice sheet ; ice thickness ; Arctic ; Greenland ; Greenland Ice Sheet
英文摘要: The discovery of a large putative impact crater buried beneath Hiawatha Glacier along the margin of the northwestern Greenland Ice Sheet has reinvigorated interest into the nature of large impacts into thick ice masses. This circular structure is relatively shallow and exhibits a small central uplift, whereas a peak-ring morphology is expected. This discrepancy may be due to long-term and ongoing subglacial erosion but may also be explained by a relatively recent impact through the Greenland Ice Sheet, which is expected to alter the final crater morphology. Here we model crater formation using hydrocode simulations, varying pre-impact ice thickness and impactor composition over crystalline target rock. We find that an ice-sheet thickness of 1.5 or 2 km results in a crater morphology that is consistent with the present morphology of this structure. Further, an ice sheet that thick substantially inhibits ejection of rocky material, which might explain the absence of rocky ejecta in most existing Greenland deep ice cores if the impact occurred during the late Pleistocene. From the present morphology of the putative Hiawatha impact crater alone, we cannot distinguish between an older crater formed by a pre-Pleistocene impact into ice-free bedrock or a younger, Pleistocene impact into locally thick ice, but based on our modeling we conclude that latter scenario is possible. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/165675
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作者单位: Department of Earth Sciences, Western University, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada; The Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada; Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States; Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States; Cryospheric Sciences Lab, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Silber E.A.,Johnson B.C.,Bjonnes E.,et al. Effect of ice sheet thickness on formation of the Hiawatha impact crater[J]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters,2021-01-01,566
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