Haviland - Impact Crater

Alternate Names Brenham Crater (after the Brenham Meteorite which formed it)
Local Language
Coordinates 37° 34' 57" N; 99° 9' 50" W
Notes
  1. On farmland, just outside the town of Haviland in Kiowa County, Kansas.
Country United States of America
Region Kansas
Date Confirmed 1933
Notes
  1. Confirmed by recovered impactor fragments in the eastern and southern portions of the rim (Nininger and Figgins, 1933).
Buried? No
Drilled? No
Target Type Sedimentary
Notes
  1. In farmland soil of Recent age (Peck, 1979).
Sub-Type Soil
Apparent Crater Diameter (km) Unknown
Age (Ma) 0.02±0.002
Notes :
  1. Formed in recent time, but no specific age has been determined. Honda et al. 2002. *Minimum age is poorly constrained. Wouldnt it be better to simply display \"?\"

Method :
  1. Cosmogenic nuclides (14C) and stratigraphy
Impactor Type Pallasite, PMG
Notes
  1. Brenham pallasite (Peck, 1979). Meteorites recovered.

Advanced Data Fields

Notes

Erosion
4
  1. After excavation by scientists and annual plowing by the farmer, the crater has disappeared and is now unrecognizable (Peck, 1979).
Final Rim Diameter
Unknown
Maximum Crater Size
Unknown
Number of Craters
0.01
Rim Reliability Index
2
  1. Consisted of an elliptical ring around a shallow depression about 15 by 20 m across (Peck, 1979).
Thickness of Seds
Target Age
Recent
Marine
No

References

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H Nininger, J D Figgins, F W Cragin, C F H H Snow (1890) The excavation of a meteorite crater near Haviland, Kiowa County, Kansas, pdf

H H Nininger, J D Figgins (1934) The excavation of a meteorite crater near Haviland, Kansas, American Journal of Science 28(166), p. 312-313, Kline Geology Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT, pdf

H H Nininger (1938) Further notes on the excavation of the Haviland, Kiowa County, Kansas, meteorite crater, Contributions of the Society for Research on Meteorites 2(4), p. 13-14, Wiley-Blackwell, url, doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.1938.tb00177.x

H H Nininger (1949) Kansas Meteorite Discoveries 1873-1948, Transactions Kansas Academy of Science 52(1)

H H Nininger, J D Figgins (1971) The excavation of a meteorite crater near Haviland, Kiowa County, Kansas, Publication - Arizona State University. Center for Meteorite Studies 9, p. 192-201, Arizona State University, Center for Meteorite Studies, Tempe, AZ, pdf

H H Nininger (1971) Further notes on the excavation of the Haviland, Kiowa County, Kansas, meteorite crater, Publication - Arizona State University. Center for Meteorite Studies 9, p. 400-401, Arizona State University, Center for Meteorite Studies, Tempe, AZ

P W Hodge (1979) Meteoritic material in the soil near two meteorite craters, Meteoritics 14(4), p. 422-423, Arizona State University, Center for Meteorite Studies, Tempe, AZ, url

E Peck (1979) The fate of a Kansas meteorite crater, Sky and Telescope 58(2), p. 126-126, url

P W Hodge (1979) Meteoritic material in the soil near two meteorite craters, Astrophys. J 225

P W Hodge (1979) The location of the site of the Haviland meteorite crater, Meteoritics 14(2), p. 233-234, url

H Plotkin (1999) The Brenham, Kiowa County, Kansas meteorite, Anni Mirabiles, A Symposium Celebrating the 90th Birthday of Dorrit Hoffleit, p. 93-95

M Hondai, M W Caffee, Y N Miura, H Nagaii, K Nagat, K Nishiizumi (2002) Cosmogenic nuclides in the Brenham pallasite, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 37, p. 1711-1728, url

R D Snyder, K R Evans (2007) Integrating new technology and research in secondary school Earth science education, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 39(3), p. 13, Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO

K Click, R D Snyder, K R Evans, K L Mickus (2007) Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) profiles of Haviland crater, Kansas, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 39(3), p. 71, Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO

D F Merriam, J W Harbaugh (2007) Meteorites and possible meteorite impact features in Kansas, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 110(1-2), p. 61-68, Kansas Academy of Science, Lawrence, KS, url

K R Evans, K Click, K L Mickus, R D Snyder (2007) Ground-penetrating radar imagery of Haviland crater, Kansas: Anatomy of a partially excavated meteorite impact site, GSA Denver Annual Meeting 65897(1), p. 28-31, Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, url

E Flamini, A Coletta, M L Battagliere, M Virelli (2019) Haviland, USA, Encyclopedic Atlas of Terrestrial Impact Craters, p. 525-526, Springer International Publishing, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05451-9_146