P14B:
Recent Developments at Sudbury and Other Canadian Impact Structures Posters

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Session ID#: 6167

Session Description:
Impact cratering has played an important role in shaping the Earth and other planetary bodies in the Solar System, from creating world-class economic resources to the negative and positive effects on the evolution of life. One sixth of the world’s known impact structures can be found in Canada, thanks to a large extent to the well-preserved Precambrian rock record. From the ~250 km diameter Sudbury structure to the ~40 m diameter Whitecourt crater, the Canadian impact record offers an important natural laboratory for studying impact cratering processes. This session seeks to highlight recent advances at Sudbury and other Canadian impact structures. We welcome contributions relating to any aspect of the Canadian impact record, from field studies, economic resources, laboratory-based studies of samples, to numerical modeling of specific craters. Contributions that relate to distal ejecta deposits and boundary layers associated with impact craters (e.g., the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary) are also welcome.
OSPA Liaison:  Gordon R Osinski, University of Western Ontario, Physics and Astronomy, London, ON, Canada; University of Western Ontario, Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada
Chairs:  Peter C Lightfoot, Vale, Sudbury, ON, Canada and Richard A F Grieve, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Primary Convener:  Gordon R Osinski, University of Western Ontario, Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada
Conveners:  Richard A F Grieve, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada and Peter C Lightfoot, Vale, Sudbury, ON, Canada
Index Terms:

3625 Petrography, microstructures, and textures [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
3665 Mineral occurrences and deposits [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
3690 Field relationships [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
5420 Impact phenomena, cratering [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • ES - Earth Surface Processes
  • MD - Mineral Deposits and Ore Minerals

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
P14B-0306
Structural Characterization of the Sudbury Impact Structure, Canada using current remote sensing datasets (34509)
Bhairavi Shankar, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada and Gordon R Osinski, University of Western Ontario, Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada
 
P14B-0307
Impact Melt Veins in the Central Uplift of the West Clearwater Lake Impact Structure, Northern Quebec, Canada. (35333)
Rebecca Wilks, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada and Gordon R Osinski, University of Western Ontario, Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada
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