Beyenchime-Salaatin - Hypervelocity Impact Crater
Alternate Names | N/A |
Coordinates |
71° 3' 38" N; 121° 41' 13" E Notes
|
Country | Russia |
Region | Sakha |
Date Confirmed | 1975 Notes
|
Buried? |
No Notes
|
Drilled? | No |
Target Type |
Sedimentary Notes
|
Sub-Type | Carbonate, Limestone, Sandstone, Siltstone |
Apparent Crater Diameter (km) | 8 km |
Age (Ma) | 1.8 - 66 Notes :
Method :
|
Impactor Type | Unknown |
Advanced Data Fields
Notes

- The rim is partially preserved (Mikhaylov et al., 1979).
- Dimensions taken from diagram by (Masaitis et al., 1980).
- Cross-sections drawn as simple crater. A circular basin is surrounded by a concentric ridge of Cambrian rocks, which ranges in width from 1.5 to 2.5 km, all surrounded by a centrifugal pattern of thrusts and radial faults (Mikhaylov et al., 1979). The crater interior comprises a “flat depression” with “isolated hills” of allochthonous crater-fill impactites (Masaitis, 1999). There is no evidence for a central uplift.
- Shatter cones occur in the southeastern part of the crater, on the ridge, in limestone (of the Kuonamka suite), ranging in length from several to ten centimeters (Mikhaylov et al., 1979). Well-developed shatter cones occur in dolomites from the annular swell (Masaitis, 1975). Shatter cones clasts in impact breccia occur (Masaitis, 1999).
- (Mikhaylov, 1979)
References
(1979) The terrestrial cratering record: I. Current status of observations, Icarus 38(2), p. 212-229, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/0019-1035(79)90179-9
(1979) The Beyenchime-Salaatin meteorite crater, Doklady Earth Science Sections 245(1-6), p. 76-78
(1980) The Geology of Astroblemes, Leningrad, Izdatel'stvo Nedra (Russian), p. 232-232, Leningrad: Nedra Press, url
(1998) The Planetary Scientist's Companion, New York: Oxford University Press, url
(2005) Impact Tectonics, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27548-7
(2013) Earth system processes and disaster management, New York; Berlin: Springer, url
(2013) Planetary geology: an introduction, Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, url
(2019) Beenchime Salaatinsky crater in northern Yakutia-origin and late quaternary records in the 8-km circular structure, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, pdf
(2020) Late Quaternary sedimentation dynamics in the Beenchime-Salaatinsky crater, Northern Yakutia, Arktos 6(1-3), url, doi:10.1007/s41063-020-00077-w