Boltysh - Hypervelocity Impact Crater
Alternate Names | |
Local Language | Bovtyshka (Kvasnytsya, 2018) |
Coordinates |
48° 53' 60" N; 32° 15' 8" E Notes
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Country | Ukraine |
Region | Kirovograd |
Date Confirmed | 1973 Notes
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Buried? |
Yes Notes
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Drilled? |
Yes
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Target Type |
Crystalline
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Sub-Type | Gneiss, Granitoid, Migmatite |
Apparent Crater Diameter (km) | 24 km |
Age (Ma) | 65.39 ± 0.14 Notes :
Method :
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Impactor Type | Unknown |
Advanced Data Fields
Notes
- Rim is partially eroded, the remaining structure is well preserved (Grieve et al., 1987). Some exterior ejecta remaining.
- Dimensions measured from diagram of (Masaitis et al., 1980). Dimensions are approximately equivalent to present because of its immediate burial (Grieve et al., 1987).
- Comprises a circular depression with a central uplift completely buried by post-impact sediment (Masaitis et al., 1980). Approximately 24 km in diameter with a 6 km diameter central uplift (Grieve et al., 1987). Geophysics and drill cores indicate a topographic central peak emerges from the surrounding allochthonous crater-fill breccias (Grieve et al., 1987). The central uplift is ~3.8 km wide and emerges by ~100–200 m above the top of the allochthonous crater-fill impactites (Gurov et al., 2006); impact melt-bearing breccias drape part of the central peak.
- Shatter cones occur in some blocks/large clasts of the parautochthonous crystalline/granitic rocks of the central uplift (Masaitis, 1999) (Gurov et al., 2003).
- PDF in quartz are partly converted to diaplectic glass (Yurk et al., 1976) (Gurov and Val\'ter, 1977) (Masaitis et al., 1980) (Grieve et al., 1987).
- (Gurov et al., 1978) (Khyranina, 1987).
- Crater depression filled by allogenic breccia and tagamites (Masaitis, 1999). Allogenic breccia (lithic breccias), tagamites (melt rocks) and suevites (melt-bearing breccias) occur in the annular trough (Masaitis, 1999). Glassy and crystalline melt rocks within the melt sheet (Gurov et al., 2011). Volume of melt noted in (Griebe and Cintala, 1992). (Williams et al., 2013) analyzed crater-fill melt-bearing breaccias and impact melt rocks. Ejecta deposits are extensively eroded, and contain lithic breccias and possibly melt-bearing breccias (Gurov et al., 2003).
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