Boxhole - Impact Crater

Alternate Names Dneiper (Dunster et al., 2014)
Local Language
Coordinates 22° 36' 46" S; 135° 11' 43" E
Notes
  1. Near Dneiper Station, 170 km NE of Alice Springs.
Country Australia
Region Northern Territory
Date Confirmed 1937
Notes
  1. Observable was a rim raised 3m above the surrounding plains and later, nodules of iron oxides (weathering products of the meteorite) and one fragment of meteoric iron were found and analyzed (Madigan, 1937).
Buried? No
Notes
  1. <0.5 m of alluvium cover the ejecta beyond the crater rim. Colluvium, alluvium and playa deposits cover the floor and lower walls (Roddy et al., 1988).
Drilled? No
Target Type Crystalline
Notes
  1. Formed in gneiss, schist, and quartzite of early Proterozoic age (Roddy et al., 1988).
Sub-Type Gneiss, Quartzite, Schist
Apparent Crater Diameter (km) 170 m
Age (Ma) 0.030 ± 0.005
Notes :
  1. 10Be-26Al exposure age of quartz vein in crater wall provides an age of 30,000 years (Shoemaker et al., 1990). Additional age constraints: (Bevan, 1996).

Method :
  1. 10Be-26Al
Impactor Type Iron, IIIAB
Notes
  1. Shoemaker et al. (1988) Meteorites recovered.

Advanced Data Fields

Notes

Erosion
1
  1. Some ejecta preserved, appearing as unweathered quartz fragments (Milton and Michel, 1965).
Final Rim Diameter
Unknown
Maximum Crater Size
170 m
Number of Craters
1
Rim Reliability Index
2
  1. A nearly circular depression is surrounded by ejecta and partially filled with sediments (Milton and Michel, 1965). Extensive ejecta can be traced more than 300 m S of the crater (Roddy et al., 1988). Raised rim 3 to 5 m above ground level (Hodge and Wright, 1973).(Hodge and Wright, 1973); Shoemaker et al., 1988 (LPSC XIX Abstract 1081)
Thickness of Seds
Target Age
Precambrian
Marine
No

References

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C T Madigan (1937) The Boxhole crater and the Huckitta meteorite (central Australia), Royal Society of South Australia Transactions and Proceedings 61, p. 187-190, Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide, South Aust., url

C S Bembrick (1963) Astrogeology: studies of Australian meteorite craters and the lunar surface, Journal of the University of New South Wales Mining and Geological Society 1, p. 13-23, University of New South Wales Mining and Geological Society, Kensington, N.S.W., url

J T Wasson (1967) Differences of composition among Australian iron meteorites, Nature (London) 216(5118), p. 880, Macmillan Journals, London, url

W A Cassidy (1968) Descriptions and topographic maps of the Wolf Creek and Boxhole craters, Australia, Shock metamorphism of natural materials, Bevan French, Nicholas M Short (ed.), p. 623, url

P W Hodge, F W Wright (1973) Particles Around Boxhole Meteorite Crater, Meteoritics 8(4), p. 315-320, url

E M Shoemaker, D J Roddy, C S Shoemaker, J K Roddy (1988) The Boxhole Meteorite Crater, Northern Territory, Australia, Abstracts of Papers Submitted to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 19, Part 3, p. 1081-1082, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, url

P W Haines (2005) Impact cratering and distal ejecta: the Australian record, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 52, p. 481-507, doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/08120090500170351