Popigai - Hypervelocity Impact Crater

Alternate Names
Local Language
Coordinates 71° 38' 41" N; 111° 4' 39" E
Notes
  1. In the basin of the Popigai River in the northern part of the central Siberian Plateau.
Country Russia
Region Taymyr
Date Confirmed 1971
Notes
  1. Confirmed based on shatter cone occurrences up to 10-15 cm in length in crystalline rocks (Masaitis et al.,1971).
Buried? No
Notes
  1. Within the depression and along its sides are extensive Pliocene-Quaternary lacustrine, glacial and alluvial deposits tens of meter thick (Masaitis et al., 1980).
Drilled? Yes
Notes
  1. More than 500 boreholes were drilled up to 1.7 km in the ring trench and ring uplift (NRCAN binder).
Target Type Mixed
Notes
  1. Archean granitic gneiss covered by Late Proterozoic quartzitic sandstones, Cambrian limestones, dolomites and marls, Permian to Cretaceous sands, sandstones and siltstones (Masaitis et al., 1975). Formed in a shallow sea (<100 m) (Vishnevsky et al., 1995). Archean crystalline basement was overlain by Proterozoic-to-Permian sedimentary cover; thickness up to 1.5km (Mashchak and Naumov, 2005).
Sub-Type Dolomite, Gneiss, Marl, Sand, Sandstone, Siltstone
Apparent Crater Diameter (km) 100 km
Age (Ma) 36.63 ± 0.92
Notes :
  1. 36.63 ± 0.92 Ma determined by 40Ar/39Ar of impact melt rock (mean of 4 plateau ages) (Bottomley et al., 1997), recalculated by (Schmieder and Kring, 2020); the pre-recalculation age was 35.7 ± 0.2 Ma. Additional age constraints: Minimum age: 5 Ma (beginning Pliocene) (Bottomley et al., 1997) Maximum age: 66 Ma (end Cretaceous) (Bottomley et al., 1997) 40–45 Ma estimated by K-Ar of four tagamites (Firsov, 1970) in Russian, reported by (Bottomley et al., 1997) 29–46 Ma estimated by K-Ar of five tagamites and one glass fragment (Komarov and Raykhlin, (1976) reported by (Bottomley et al., 1997) 32.4-44.0 Ma estimated by fission track analysis of impact glass (Masaitis et al., 1975) in Russian, reported by (Bottomley et al., 1997) 30.5 ± 1.2 Ma estimated by fission track (Storzer and Wagner, 1979) 52.2 to 65.9 Ma estimated by 40Ar/39Ar of impact glass (Deino et al., 1991) 37.7 ± 0.3 Ma from discordant 40Ar/39Ar data interpreted as maximum age (Deino et al., 1995)

Method :
  1. 40Ar/39Ar
Impactor Type Ordinary chondrite
Notes
  1. Concentration of Ni, Co, Cr and Ir in impactites exceed their content in the original rocks; the meteorite was most likely chondrite (Masaitis and Raikhlin, 1985).

Advanced Data Fields

Notes

Erosion
3
  1. Most of the ejecta has been eroded; the rim and uplifted rocks are partially preserved (Grieve, 1982).
Final Rim Diameter
Unknown
Apparent Rim Diameter
100 km
  1. Disturbed sedimentary rocks produce a structure 100 km in diameter (Masaitis, 1999).
Rim Reliability Index
2
  1. Consists of an inner depression filled with displaced explosive breccia and central uplifted basement rocks. Proterozoic and Cambrian rocks form a complete ring framing the inner structure (Masaitis et al., 1975). Cicular central depression has a diameter of 40 km, peak ring has diameter of 45 km, and annular trough has a diameter of 60 km (Masaitis, 1999).
Crater Morphology
Complex
Central Uplift Diameter
15km
Central Uplift Height
800 m
Uplift Reliability Index
Structural Uplift
Unknown
Thickness of Seds
≤1.5
Target Age
Precambrian Palaeozoic Mesozoic
Marine
No
Impactor Type
Ordinary chondrite
  1. Concentration of Ni, Co, Cr and Ir in impactites exceed their content in the original rocks; the meteorite was most likely chondrite (Masaitis and Raikhlin, 1985).
Other Shock Metamorphism
Maskelynite Impact diamonds
  1. Maskelynite (Masaitis et al., 1974) and impact diamonds (Vishnevsky and Pal'chik, 1975) (Vishnevsky, 1993).
Shatter Cones
Yes
  1. Shatter cones up to 10-15 cm high (Masaitis et al., 1971) (Masaitis et al., 1980). Shatter cones occur in blocks and fragments of crystalline and sedimentary rocks within allogenic breccia (Masaitis, 1999). Shatter cones occur in gneisses (Masaitis, 1975).
Planar Fractures
No
Planar Deformation Features
Yes
  1. PDF in quartz grains (Vishnevsky et al., 1975).
Diaplectic Glass
No
Coesite
Yes
  1. (Vishnevsky et al., 1974) (Masaitis et al., 1980)
Stisovite
Yes
  1. (Vishnevsky et al., 1975)
Crater Fill
LB, MB, M
  1. Melt rocks (tagamites) consist of a glassy or crystalline matrix with up to 25% of target rock clasts. The melt displays variable textures and geochemistry. Lithic breccias are monomict and polymict. Melt-bearing breccias (suevites) contain variable amounts and sizes of glass and clasts (Masaitis, 1998) (Masaitis, 1999) (Vishnevsky and Montanari, 1999) (Kettrup et al., 2003). (Grieve and Cintala, 1992)
Proximal Ejecta
Distal Ejecta
Dykes
Volume of Melt
1750 km3
Depth of Melting

References

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Valentin Afanasiev, Sergey Gromilov, Valeri Sonin, Egor Zhimulev, Aleksei Chepurov (2019) Graphite in rocks of the popigai impact crater: Residual or retrograde?, Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 28(3), doi:10.3906/yer-1808-6

V. L. Masaitis, O. V. Petrov, M. V. Naumov (2019) Impact lithologies–a key for reconstruction of rock-forming processes and a geological model of the Popigai crater, northern Siberia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 66(1), doi:10.1080/08120099.2018.1509372

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