New Quebec - Hypervelocity Impact Crater

Alternate Names
Local Language Pingualuit
Coordinates 61° 16' 37" N; 73° 39' 38" W
Notes
  1. Northern Quebec, in the Ungava Peninsula.
Country Canada
Region Quebec
Date Confirmed 1957
Notes
  1. No outcrops. Impact evidence in the form of PDFs in quartz comes from a small handful of impact melt rock samples, all glacial float (Meen, 1957).
Buried? No
Notes
  1. The bedrock is covered locally with a thin veneer of glacial and recent deposits (Currie, 1966).
Drilled? No
Target Type Crystalline
Notes
  1. The exposed bedrock consists of a melange of metamorphosed, Archean plutonic rocks, cut by rare basic dykes (Shoemaker, 1962).
Sub-Type Plutonic
Apparent Crater Diameter (km) Unknown
Age (Ma) 1.4 ± 0.1
Notes :
  1. 1.4 ± 0.1 Ma determined by 40Ar/39Ar (Grieve et al. 1991). Additional age constraints: (Roddick, 1990) gives one spectra, which he interprets as 0.47 Ma.

Method :
  1. 40Ar/39Ar
Impactor Type Ordinary chondrite
Notes
  1. Siderophile element enrichment, chondritic in nature, in the impactites (Grieve et al., 1991). PGE geochemistry suggests the impactor is chondritic (Evans et al., 1993).

Advanced Data Fields

Notes

Erosion
3
  1. All ejecta and some rim material has been removed by glaciation (Currie, 1966). The original ground plane may be 15 m above the present level (Millman, 1956).
Final Rim Diameter
3.44 km
Apparent Rim Diameter
Unknown
  1. Mean rim diameter is 11,290 ft (3.44 km) and mean lake diameter is 9,430 ft (2.87 km) (Millman, 1956).
Rim Reliability Index
1
  1. Has a nearly circular outline; depth to the apparent crater floor and the inner and outer slopes of the rim are comparable to other simple craters (Millman, 1956).
Crater Morphology
Simple
Central Uplift Diameter
km
Central Uplift Height
Unknown
Uplift Reliability Index
2
Structural Uplift
Unknown
Thickness of Seds
Target Age
Precambrian
Marine
No
Impactor Type
Ordinary chondrite
  1. Siderophile element enrichment, chondritic in nature, in the impactites (Grieve et al., 1991). PGE geochemistry suggests the impactor is chondritic (Evans et al., 1993).
Other Shock Metamorphism
Ballen quartz
  1. Ballen-quartz (Carstens, 1975).
Shatter Cones
No
Planar Fractures
No
Planar Deformation Features
Yes
  1. PDF in quartz grains (Robertson et al., 1968) (Short and Bunch, 1968) (Marvin et al., 1988) (Marvin and Kring, 1992). PDFs in quartz (Carstens, 1975). Fig. 16 (Robertson et al., 1968) shows Type E planar feature in a quartz grain.
Diaplectic Glass
Yes
  1. The finding , in the impact melt rocks of Lapparjarvi, of quartz inclusions with multiple sets of planar deformation lamellae together with "ballen" -textured quartz suggests that the melting took place by the fusion of a diaplectic quartz" (Carstens, 1975).
Coesite
No
Stisovite
No
Crater Fill
M
  1. All melt rock samples are glacial float (Grieve et al., 1991).
Proximal Ejecta
Distal Ejecta
Dykes
Volume of Melt
Depth of Melting

References

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Victor Ben Meen (1950) Chubb crater, Ungava, Quebec, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 44(5), p. 169-180, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto, url

Einar Tandberg-Hanssen (1952) Chubb-krateret [Quebec], verdens stoerste meteorittkrater, Naturen, p. 98-104, [publisher unknown], Bergen, url

J M Harrison (1954) Ungava (Chubb) Crater and glaciation [Quebec], Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 48(1), p. 16-20, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto, url

P M Millman (1956) A profile study of the New Quebec crater, Publications of the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa 18(4), p. 61-82, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Observatories Branch, Ottawa, url, doi:10.4095/8653

K L Currie, Michael R Dence (1963) Rock deformation in the rim of the New Quebec crater, Canada, Nature 198(4875), p. 80-80, Macmillan Journals, London, url, doi:10.1038/198080a0

K L Currie (1964) On the origin of some 'recent' craters on the Canadian shield, Meteoritics and Planetary Science 2(2), p. 93-110, Arizona State University, Center for Meteorite Studies, Tempe, AZ, url, doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.1964.tb01416.x

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D P Gold, B Robertson (1966) Structural studies on the New Quebec and Lac Couture craters, New Quebec, Canada, Special Paper - Geological Society of America 87, p. 64-65, New York: Geological Society of America, Inc., url, doi:10.1130/SPE87

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P J H Richard, A C Larouche, N Morasse (1989) Etudes floristiques et paléophytogéographiques au cratère du Nouveau-Québec, Collection Environment et Géologie 7, Michel A Bouchard, Stephane Péloquin (ed.), p. 315-342, Montréal: Section du Genie de l'Environnement de l'Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, url

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Enrico Flamini, A Coletta, M L Battagliere, M Virelli (2019) New Quebec, Canada, Encyclopedic Atlas of Terrestrial Impact Craters, E Flamini, M Di Martino, A Coletta (ed.), p. 567-569, Cham: Springer International Publishing, url, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05451-9_158