Veevers - Impact Crater

Alternate Names
Local Language
Coordinates 22° 58' 12" S; 125° 22' 21" E
Notes
  1. In the NE part of the state, between the Great Sandy desert to the N and the Gibson desert to the S.
Country Australia
Region Western Australia
Date Confirmed 1985
Notes
  1. A meteoric origin was first confirmed by the finding of iron meteorite fragments (Shoemaker and Shoemaker 1985). The crater structure was first recognized by (Yeates et al., 1976) but \"no unequivocal evidence for any origin is thus available.\"
Buried? No
Notes
  1. The crater is floored by aeolian sands (Yeates et al., 1976).
Drilled? No
Target Type Sedimentary
Notes
  1. Regional evidence suggests laterite is probably developed on horizontally bedded Cretaceous sandstones (Yeates et al., 1976).
Sub-Type Laterite, Sandstone
Apparent Crater Diameter (km) 72.5 m
Age (Ma) ~0.004?
Notes :
  1. The rough estimate of 0.004 is based on the preservation of the ejecta blanket (Shoemaker and Shoemaker, 1988) (Haines, 2005) (Shoemaker et al., 2005) (Schmieder and Kring, 2020). The well preserved physiographic expression suggests the age of the crater is relatively recent, <1 Ma (Yeates et al., 1976). *Minimum age is poorly constrained.

Method :
  1. Stratigraphy
Impactor Type Iron, IIAB
Notes
  1. Iron Fragments were found associated with this depression (Shoemaker and Shoemaker, 1985) (Beven et al., 1995). Chemical group IIAB (Wason et al., 1989). Meteorites recovered.

Advanced Data Fields

Notes

Erosion
2
  1. The crater is well preserved (Yeates et al., 1976). Ejecta removed.
Final Rim Diameter
72.5 m
Maximum Crater Size
72.5 m
Number of Craters
1
Rim Reliability Index
1
  1. Rim crest diameter is 72.5 m and apparent diameter from ground level is 56.25 m. Rim height is 3 m and depth of crater is 3 m (Shoemaker et al., 2005). Diameter of 70 m. A circular depression, with a flat floor of aeolian sand is surrounded by a 20 m wide elevated rim (Yeates et al., 1976).
Thickness of Seds
Target Age
Mesozoic
Marine
No

References

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J R de Laeter (1983) Meteorites in the desert; a review of meteoritics in Western Australia; presidential address 1981, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 6, Part 3, p. 63-70, Royal Society of Western Australia, Perth, West. Aust.

E M Shoemaker, C S Shoemaker (1985) Impact structures of Western Australia, Meteoritics 20(4), Carleton B Moore (ed.), p. 754-756, Arizona State University, Center for Meteorite Studies, Tempe, AZ

E M Shoemaker, C S Shoemaker (1985) Impact structures of Western Australia, Meteoritics 20, p. undefined-754

E P Gurov, E P Gurova (1987) Impact structures on the Earth's surface (in Russian), Geologicheskii Zhurnal 47, p. 117-124

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E M Shoemaker, C S Shoemaker, K Nishiizumi, C P Kohl, J R Arnold, J Klein, D Fink, R Middleton, P W Kubik, P Sharma (1990) Ages of Australian meteorite craters-A preliminary report, Meteoritics 25(4), p. 409

Y Miura, T Kato (1991) Anomalous shocked quartz in Australian impact craters, LPI Contribution 766, p. 159, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, url

T R Smith, P Hodge (1993) Microscopic meteoritic material surrounding meteorite craters, Meteoritics 28(3), p. -439

A W R Bevan, E M Shoemaker, C S Shoemaker (1995) Metallography and thermo-mechanical treatment of the Veevers (IIAB) crater-forming iron meteorite, Records of the Western Australian Museum 17, p. 51-59

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A W R Bevan (1996) Australian crater-forming meteorites, AGSO Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics 16(4), Andrew Y Glikson (ed.), p. 421-429, Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Canberra, A.C.T.

T R Smith, P W Hodge (1996) Microscopic meteoritic material at the Dalgaranga, Odessa and Veevers meteorite craters, Abstracts of Papers Submitted to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 27, Part 3, p. 1223-1224, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX

A W R Bevan (1996) Meteorites recovered from Australia, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 79, Part 1, Philip C Withers, Kevin J R Rosman (ed.), p. 33-42, Royal Society of Western Australia, Perth, West. Aust., url

C S Cockell (2002) The biology of impact craters - a review, Biology Review 77(279-310)

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P W Haines (2005) Impact cratering and distal ejecta: the Australian record, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 52(4-5), p. 481-507, url, doi:10.1080/08120090500170351

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P W Haines (2005) Impact cratering and distal ejecta: The Australian record, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 52(4-5), p. 481-507, doi:10.1080/08120090500170351

J J Veevers (2006) Updated Gondwana (Permian-Cretaceous) Earth history of Australia, Gondwana Research 9(3), p. 231-260, International Association for Gondwana Research, Osaka, url, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2005.11.005

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S Staffieri, A Coletta, M L Battagliere, M Virelli (2019) Veevers, Australia, Encyclopedic Atlas of Terrestrial Impact Craters, p. 311-314, Springer International Publishing, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05451-9_80