Rochechouart - Hypervelocity Impact Crater

Alternate Names Rochechouart-Chassenon
Local Language
Coordinates 45° 49' 2" N; 0° 47' 14" E
Notes
  1. ~50 km W of Limoges in southern France, in the NW of the French Massif Central.
Country France
Region Limousin
Date Confirmed 1971
Notes
  1. PFs found in quartz, shattercones also observed (Kraut and French, 1971).
Buried? No
Drilled? No
Target Type Crystalline
Notes
  1. Excavated in gneisses, granites and schists of Hercynian age; sedimentary rocks of Triassic age were most likely present prior to impact (Kraut and French, 1971). Probably a shallow marine continental basin existed at the time of impact. (Zeigler, 1990) (Smith et al., 1994).
Sub-Type Gneiss, Schist, Granite
Apparent Crater Diameter (km) 32 km
Age (Ma) 206.92 ± 0.32
Notes :
  1. 206.92 ± 0.32 Ma determined by 40Ar/39Ar step heating of Babaudus impact melt rock (Cohen et al., 2017). Additional age constraints: (Kelley and Spray, 1997) give an 40Ar/39Ar age of 214 ± 8 Ma. (Reimold and Oskierski, 1987) conducted Rb-Sr analysis of melt rock and determined an age of 185.5 ± 8.8 Ma.

Method :
  1. 40Ar-39Ar
Impactor Type Iron or ordinary chondrite
Notes
  1. Strong Ni enrichment of the impact melts indicates an IIA iron meteorite with a possible composition of Fe=95% and Ni=5%. (Janssens et al., 1977). Possibly chondritic composition (Palme et al., 1980), or stony (Horn and El Goresy, 1980).

Advanced Data Fields

Notes

Erosion
6
  1. Deeply eroded to the level of the crater floor with only remnants of the crater-fill products remaining (Kraut and French, 1971).
Final Rim Diameter
Unknown
Apparent Rim Diameter
32 km
  1. On the basis of a new relationship to derive the apparent diameter using maximum shatter cone extent, the diameter is 32 km (Osinski and Ferriere, 2016). Previous apparent diameter was 23 km. (Lambert, 1977)
Rim Reliability Index
1
  1. Lacks a visible circular morphology; an inner 12 km zone of autochthonous rocks (impact melts and suevites) is surrounded by a crown of scattered patches, maximum extent of 23 km (Lambert, 1977).
Crater Morphology
Complex
Central Uplift Diameter
4km
Central Uplift Height
Unknown
Uplift Reliability Index
Structural Uplift
Unknown
Thickness of Seds
Target Age
Mesozoic
Marine
No
Impactor Type
Iron or ordinary chondrite
  1. Strong Ni enrichment of the impact melts indicates an IIA iron meteorite with a possible composition of Fe=95% and Ni=5%. (Janssens et al., 1977). Possibly chondritic composition (Palme et al., 1980), or stony (Horn and El Goresy, 1980).
Other Shock Metamorphism
No
Shatter Cones
Yes
  1. Shatter cones developed in schists and microgranites (Kraut, 1969) (Kraut and French, 1971) and were first reported in 1969 at about 1km west of Valette (Kraut, 1969). Presence of clasts of shatter cones (up to 15 cm in size) in breccias from Champonget, Longeas, and Rochechouart (Kraut, 1969). Shocked minerals (orthose and plagioclase with reduced birefringence; quartz with planar microstructures) are visible in these shatter cone (clasts in breccia) samples. Occurence of shatter cones in the city of Bouchet, in an albitophyre sample recovered at 15 m depth (no shocked minerals seen in this sample; Kraut, 1969). Shatter cones occur (in-situ) in microgranite at Fontceverane and at Mandat (Kraut, 1969). Shocked quartz (with PFs and PDFs) and kink bands in micas are observed in most shatter cone samples (Kraut, 1972). A distribution map of impactites (including shatter cones) is reported in (Kraut and Becker, 1975). Shatter cones occur in-situ at about 30-40 sites in granites, gneiss, orthogneiss, and particularly in microgranite dykes tardihercyniens (Lambert et al., 1977) (Sorel et al., 1977); cone orientation measurements were performed by these authors.
Planar Fractures
No
Planar Deformation Features
Yes
  1. PDF in quartz and feldspar grains (Lambert et al., 1977). PDF in quartz grains (Kraut, 1967) (Kraut and French, 1971).
Diaplectic Glass
No
Coesite
No
Stisovite
No
Crater Fill
LB, MB, M
  1. There is an upward transition from clast-poor/rich melt rocks (M) to glass-rich breccias (MB) and lithic breccias (Sapers et al., 2014).
Proximal Ejecta
Distal Ejecta
Dykes
Volume of Melt
Depth of Melting

References

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F Kraut (1947) Petrographie - Sur Lorientation Du Quartz Dans Quelques Roches Metamorphiques Des Environs De Rochechouart (Haute-Vienne) - Application De La Methode De Bruno Sander-Walter Schmidt, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires Des Seances De L Academie Des Sciences 224(10), p. 745-747, pdf

F Kraut (1947) Mineralogie - Sur la Symetrie des Diagrammes de Quartz des Gneiss et Plagioclasites Grenatiferes de Rochechouart (Haute-Vienne), Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires Des Seances De L Academie Des Sciences 225(6), p. 336-337, url

F Kraut (1947) Sur la symetrie des diagrammes de quartz des gneiss et plagioclasites grenatiferes de Rochechouart (Haute-Vienne), Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences 225(6), p. 336-337, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, pdf

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F Kraut (1967) Sur l'origine des clivages du quartz dans les breches 'volcaniques' de la region de Rochechouart, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie D: Sciences Naturelles 264(23), p. 2609-2612, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, url

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P Lambert (1978) Results and implications of research of coesite and stishovite in Rochechouart crater, Meteoritics 13(4), p. 530-531, Arizona State University, Center for Meteorite Studies, Tempe, AZ, url

W Horn, Ahmed El Goresy (1979) Fe-Cr-Ni-metals in rocks from the floor of the Rochechouart crater: Material of the impacting body?, Meteoritics 14(4), p. 424, Arizona State University, Center for Meteorite Studies, Tempe, AZ, url

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Ludovic Ferrière, C Koeberl (2007) Ballen quartz, an impact signature; new occurrence in impact-melt breccia at Rochechouart-Chassenon impact structure, France, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 42, Supple, p. 1, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url

C Koeberl, A Shukolyukov, G W Lugmair (2007) Chromium isotopic studies of terrestrial impact craters: Identification of meteoritic components at Bosumtwi, Clearwater East, Lappajarvi, and Rochechouart, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 256(3-4), p. 534-546, Elsevier, Amsterdam, url, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2007.02.008

C Trepmann (2007) Microstructures in quartz veins from the Rochechouart impact structure and St. Paul de la Roche, France: High stress behaviour of quartz during rapid loading, Bochumer Geowissenschaftliche Arbeiten 10, p. 195-197, Institut fuer Geologie, Mineralogie und Geophysik der Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, pdf

C Trepmann (2008) Shock effects in quartz; information on the stress conditions, International Geological Congress, Abstracts = Congres Geologique International, Resumes 33, p. Abstract 1344503, [International Geological Congress], [location varies], url

P Lambert (2008) Impact deposits at Rochechouart-Chassenon, LPI Contributions 1423, p. 3034, url

C A Trepmann (2008) Shock effects in quartz: Compression versus shear deformation- An example from the Rochechouart impact structure, France, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 267(1-2), p. 322-332, Elsevier, Amsterdam, url, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2007.11.035

H M Sapers, G R Osinski, Neil R Banerjee (2009) Re-evaluating the Rochechouart impactites: Petrographic classification, hydrothermal alteration and evidence for carbon bearing target rocks, Abstracts of Papers Submitted to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 40, p. Abstract 1284, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, pdf

M Schmieder, E Buchner, W H Schwarz, M Trieloff, P Lambert (2009) A Triassic/Jurassic boundary age for the Rochechouart impact structure (France), Meteoritics & Planetary Science 44, SUPPL., p. Abstract 5138, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url

C A Trepmann (2009) Shock effects and pre-shock microstructures in hydrothermal quartz veins from the Rochechouart impact structure, France, Journal of Structural Geology 31(10), p. 1183-1196, Elsevier, Oxford, url, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2009.06.017

R Tagle, R T Schmitt, J Erzinger (2009) Identification of the projectile component in the impact structures Rochechouart, France and Saaksjarvi, Finland: Implications for the impactor population for the Earth, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73(16), p. 4891-4906, Elsevier, New York, NY, url, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2009.05.044

P Lambert, W U Reimold (2009) Rochechouart impactoclastites, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 44, SUPPL., p. Abstract 5223, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url

Ludovic Ferrière, C Koeberl, W U Reimold (2009) Characterisation of ballen quartz and cristobalite in impact breccias: New observations and constraints on ballen formation, European Journal of Mineralogy 21(1), p. 203-217, Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Naegele u. Obermiller), Stuttgart, url, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0935-1221/2009/0021-1898

R Tagle, P Lambert (2009) Tracing and mapping the extraterrestrial contamination in impactites with portable mu -XRF instruments; potentials and real time field testing at Rochechouart, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 44, SUPPL., p. Abstract 5062, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url

M Schmieder, P Lambert, E Buchner (2009) Did the Rochechouart impact (France) trigger an end-Triassic tsunami?, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 44, SUPPL., p. Abstract 5140, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url

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