Clearwater West - Hypervelocity Impact Crater
Alternate Names | West Clearwater |
Coordinates |
56° 12' 45" N; 74° 31' 39" W Notes
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Country | Canada |
Region | Quebec |
Date Confirmed | 1964 Notes
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Buried? |
No Notes
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Drilled? |
Yes
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Target Type |
Mixed
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Sub-Type | Gneiss, Granodiorite, Limestone, Monzonite |
Apparent Crater Diameter (km) | 36 km |
Age (Ma) | 286.2 ± 2.6 Notes :
Method :
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Impactor Type |
Unknown
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Advanced Data Fields
Notes

- Glaciation has removed the ejecta and the rim, leaving only some of the melt sheet and breccia (Simonds et al., 1978).
- Dimensions based on digital terrain model (Hische, 1994).
- The lake fills an annular trough surrounding a ring of islands which reflect the eroded centrally uplifted rocks (Wood and Head, 1976).
- No meteorite component has been detected in the melt rocks (Palme et al., 1978).
- (Dence, 1964) (Bunch et al., 1967) (Bostock, 1969). Planar features in quartz samples from central islands (Simonds et al., 1978) (Part I). Planar features mentioned in: Table 1. Distribution of Shock features in Quartz and Feldspar clasts (Phinney et al., 1978). Minerals at different stages of shock metamorphism (Dence et al., 1974). Peak shock pressures of 200-250 kb (Simonds et al., 1978).
- Poorly-formed shatter cones occur in the island ring (Grieve, 2006). Shatter cones in gneisses (Fig. 8) (Dence, 1964). Shattered granite passes into microbreccias having numerous deformation lamellas in the quartz (McIntyre, 1962). Shatter cones preserved in the fractured basement on the island ring 6-10 km from the centre (Simonds et al., 1978) (Part I). Poorly formed shatter cones on the central islands with axes that appear to plunge at more than 45° (Simonds et al., 1978) (Part I).
- Fig. 9 (Robertson et al., 1968) shows a quartz grain "non-decorated cleavage fractures" {1011} orientation. Fig.6 (Robertson et al., 1968) shows a quartz grain with shear fractures that continue in the adjoining plagioclase grain as a number of curved surfaces, and decorated PDFs.
- PDF in quartz grains (Simonds et al., 1978) (Bostock, 1969) (Ogilvie et al., 1984), with peak shock pressures of 200 to 250 kb (Simonds et al., 1978). PDFs in quartz common in the more granitic rocks from the island ring (Fig. 4.6b) (Grieve, 2006). PDFs in feldspar and quartz clasts of allochthonous breccia overlying the fractured basement rock (Grieve, 2006). Angular quartz fragments within granitic microbreccias show an extraordinary richness in various PDFs (McIntyre, 1968). Fig. 9 (Robertson et al., 1968) shows a quartz grain with decorated planar features (ω). ***See Table 1 for class two planar feature (PDF Types and orientations). Planar elements in shocked quartz grains from Clearwater Lake and the Ries basin are parallel to {OOOI I, {lOI31, {WIlL {IOI21, {IOIOI (Engelhardt et al., 1968). PDFs in quartz and pyroxenes (Scott et al., 1997). **see (Stoffler, 1972) (Stoffler, 1974).
- The metagabbro of the central islands contains maskelynite (Fig. 4.6a) (Grieve, 2006). Maskelynite in clasts of allochthonous breccia overlying the fractured basement rock (Grieve, 2006). "Samples from central island display partial to complete transformation of feldspar to maskelynite" (Simonds et al., 1978) (Part I). Very fresh gabbro with maskelynite (Palme et al., 1978). Maskelynite, see Table 1. Distribution of Shock features in Quartz and Feldspar clasts (Phinney et al., 1978). Presence of maskelynite (shock-vitrified plagioclase) in drill core (Rosa, 2004). Maskelynite and diaplectic quartz (Scott et al., 1997).
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