El'gygytgyn - Hypervelocity Impact Crater

Alternate Names Lake El'gygytgyn
Local Language
Coordinates 67° 29' 24" N; 172° 4' 15" E
Notes
  1. In Anadyr mountains.
Country Russia
Region Chukotka
Date Confirmed 1978
Notes
  1. Impact origin was first proposed in 1963, however PDFs in quartz weren't confirmed until 1978 (Gurov et al., 1978 - in Russian). See (Gurov and Koeberl, 2004) for a comprehensive overview in English - many of the original papers are in Russian.
Buried? No
Notes
  1. The floor of the depression is occupied by lake deposits and up to 170 m of water (Gurov and Gurova, 1980).
Drilled? Yes
Notes
  1. One drill site drilled in 2009 with drill hole ~776 m and core length ~686 m (http://www.icdp-online.org/projects/world/asia/lake-elgygytgyn/).
Target Type Crystalline
Notes
  1. Cretaceous volcanics of the Okhotsk-Chukotka belt. Felsic to intermediate volcanic rocks of Upper Cretaceous age (Alyunin and Dabizha, 1980), such as ignimbrites and tuffs of liparites and andesitic tuffs (Gurov and Gurova, 1996).
Sub-Type Volcanics
Apparent Crater Diameter (km) Unknown
Age (Ma) 3.65 ± 0.08
Notes :
  1. 3.65 ± 0.08 Ma determined by 40Ar/39Ar of impact melt rock (Layer, 2000, recalculated by Schmieder and Kring 2020). Pre-recalculation age is 3.58 ± 0.04 Ma (Layer, 2000).

Method :
  1. 40Ar/39Ar
Impactor Type Ordinary chondrite or achondrite
Notes
  1. Stony (Gurov et al.,(2005). Excess ratios of Ni, Co and Cr and anomalous abundances of Ir and Os in impactites agree best with an achondrite (ureilite) composition (Val'ter et al., 1982).

Advanced Data Fields

Notes

Erosion
4
  1. Unconsolidated rim portion and ejecta have been removed by erosion; crater-fill products are partially preserved (Gurov and Gurova, 1980).
Final Rim Diameter
18 km
Apparent Rim Diameter
Unknown
  1. (Gurov and Gurova, 1980)
Rim Reliability Index
2
  1. Consists of a bowl-shaped depression with a floor occupied by lake deposits and an annular rim rising 100-400 m above the lake level central uplift (Gurov and Gurova, 1980). Conflicting evidence for presence of a small central peak. Based on gravity measurements, Dabizha and Feldman (1982) proposed the presence of an ~2 km wide central peak buried beneath post-impact sediments. Other workers suggest instead that the central uplift comprises a “ring structure” 7–7.5 km diameter composed of parautochthonous bedrock, which is brecciated in places and entirely covered by ~100 m of allochthonous crater-fill breccias, which thicken to ~400 m in the surrounding basin (Gebhardt et al., 2006).
Crater Morphology
Complex
Central Uplift Diameter
2km
Central Uplift Height
Unknown
Uplift Reliability Index
3
Structural Uplift
Unknown
Thickness of Seds
Target Age
Mesozoic
Marine
No
Impactor Type
Ordinary chondrite or achondrite
  1. Stony (Gurov et al.,(2005). Excess ratios of Ni, Co and Cr and anomalous abundances of Ir and Os in impactites agree best with an achondrite (ureilite) composition (Val'ter et al., 1982).
Other Shock Metamorphism
Lechatalierite
  1. Found in glassy bombs (Gurov and Gurova, 1980).
Shatter Cones
No
  1. "Imperfect shatter cones" are outcropping at the rim (Gurov et al., 1978). Shatter cones up to 2 cm were observed in three samples of rhyolitic tuff (in "ejectas") (Gurov et al., 2005). [Shatter cones questionable] No unambiguous shatter cone identification due to sediment cover on the central part of the crater and an insufficient sample size recovered from drill core (Baratoux, 2016)
Planar Fractures
No
Planar Deformation Features
Yes
  1. PDFs in quartz and feldspar grains (Gurov and Gurova, 1980).
Diaplectic Glass
Yes
  1. Diaplectic quartz are rare inclusions in glass (Gurov and Gurova, 1980).
Coesite
Yes
  1. (Gurov and Gurova, 1980) (Basilevsky and Fel'dman, 1983).
Stisovite
Yes
  1. (Gurov and Gurova, 1980) (Basilevsky and Fel'dman, 1983).
Crater Fill
LB, MB, M
  1. Polymict lithic breccias and melt-bearing breccias with mm-sized glass clasts that display fluidal textures were reported by (Gurov et al., 2005) (Wittmann, 2011). 100 m of melt-bearing breccias (suevites) with glass clasts that display fluidal textures (Melles et al., 2011). (Pittarello & Koeberl, 2012) describe two types of melt rocks: a clast-poor to -free melt rock, and clast-rich melt rocks with a silica glass matrix Spherules reported by (Melles et al., 2011) and (Pittarello & Koeberl, 2012). The apparent lack of impact melt in hole 1C may indicate that most of the impact melt at El’gygytgyn was ejected and later eroded (Melles et al. 2011).
Proximal Ejecta
S
Distal Ejecta
Dykes
Volume of Melt
Depth of Melting

References

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Dharmindar Maharaj, T Elbra, L J Pesonen (2010) Geophysical studies of the El'gygytgyn impact structure, Sixth Symposium on the Structure, Composition and Evolution of the Lithosphere in Finland S-55, Pekka Heikkinen, Katriina Arhe, Toivo Korja, Raimo Lahtinen, Lauri J Pesonen, Tapani Ramo (ed.), p. 71-74, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, url

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