Isle of Skye ejecta - Impact Deposit

Alternate Names N/A
Coordinates 57° 13' 12" N; 6° 3' 36" W
Notes
  1. Coordinates are approximate based off location of site 1 in Drake et al., 2017
Country Scotland

Related Countries :
  1. Scotland
Region Isle of Skye
Date Confirmed 2017
Notes
  1. There were papers published as far back as 1969 (by Reid and Ringwood) discussing evidence which was later used to show that this site is meteoritic ejecta. Drake et al., 2017 appears to be the first paper to discover that this is from an impact
Age (Ma) mid-Paleocene
Notes :
  1. (Drake et al., 2017)

Method :
  1. Zircon and U/Pb Zircon Dating
Impactor Type Unknown

Advanced Data Fields

Notes

Local Language
N/A
Spherules
Yes
Tektites
Yes
Indivudual Glass Clasts
Unknown
Source Crater
Unknown, likely in Northern Hemisphere (Drake et al., 2017)
Geology
2 sites- Site 1 layer sitting uncomfortably on Middle Jurassic sedimentary rocks and comfortably on mid-Paleocene lavas. Site 2 layer sitting uncomfortably on Cambrian-Ordovician dolostone (Drake et al., 2017)
  1. Presence of barringerite and native iron spherules.
Other Shock Metamorphism
Unknown
Shatter Cones
No
Planar Fractures
Yes
  1. (Drake et al., 2017)
Planar Deformation Features
Yes
  1. (Drake et al., 2017)
Diaplectic Glass
Yes
  1. (Drake et al., 2017)
Coesite
No
Stisovite
No

References

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S M Drake, A D Beard, A P Jones, D J Brown, A Dominic Fortes, I L Millar, A Carter, J Baca, H Downes (2017) Discovery of a meteoritic ejecta layer containing unmelted impactor fragments at the base of Paleocene lavas, Isle of Skye, Scotland, Geology 46(2), p. 171-174, Geological Society of America, url, doi:10.1130/G39452.1