Drilling the Late Jurassic Mjølnir impact crater in the Barents Sea

Henning Dypvik, Philippe Claeys, Alex Deutsch, Frank Kyte, Takafumi Matsui, Mortem Smelror

Onderzoeksoutput: Conference paper

Samenvatting

INTRODUCTION
The Mjølnir impact structure is a 40 km in diameter crater, localized on the Bjarmeland Platfrom in the Barents Sea below 350 m of water and 50 to 150 m of post-impact sediments. The impact happened close to the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary (about 142 million years ago), in a time when a wide, shallow (300- 400m deep) epicontinental sea covered the area [1,2,3]. The Mjølnir crater is presently situated between Bear Island and the mainland Norway. It is one of few, large marine impact structures on the Earth and one of the very few were crater and proximal ejec- ta can be correlated [4].
Originele taal-2English
TitelLunar and Planetary Science Conference,
Volume41
StatusPublished - 2010
EvenementUnknown -
Duur: 1 jan. 2010 → …

Publicatie series

NaamLunar and Planetary Science Conference,
Nummer1086

Conference

ConferenceUnknown
Periode1/01/10 → …

Vingerafdruk

Duik in de onderzoeksthema's van 'Drilling the Late Jurassic Mjølnir impact crater in the Barents Sea'. Samen vormen ze een unieke vingerafdruk.

Citeer dit