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Popigai Impact Structure and its Diamond-Bearing Rocks

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Editors:
  1. Victor L. Masaitis

    1. A. P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI), St. Petersburg, Russia

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  • Summarizes 15 years of fieldwork on Popigai impact crater and investigations of materials from 800 boreholes (up to 1500 m deep) with a total length of over 100,000 meters
  • Enriches readers’ understanding of impact cratering processes and sheds new light on the formation of diamond-bearing impactites
  • Features a wealth of color photos of the Popigai impact structure and thin-sectioned samples of shock rocks

Part of the book series: Impact Studies (IMPACTSTUD)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Main Geological Features of the Impact Structure

    • Victor L. Masaitis, Mikhail S. Mashchak, Mikhail V. Naumov
    Pages 1-17

  3. Concentric Structural Zones and Lithology of Distributed Impact Rocks

    • Mikhail S. Mashchak, Victor L. Masaitis, Anatoly I. Raikhlin, Tatjana V. Selivanovskaya, Mikhail V. Naumov
    Pages 19-65

  4. Post-impact Geological Evolution Within the Crater and in Its Surroundings

    • Mikhail V. Naumov
    Pages 67-75

  5. Petrography of Shock-Metamorphosed Crystalline Rocks and Impactites

    • Victor L. Masaitis, Anatoly I. Raikhlin, Tatjana V. Selivanovskaya, Mikhail S. Mashchak, Mikhail V. Naumov
    Pages 77-126

  6. Petrochemistry and Geochemistry of Impactites and Target Crystalline Rocks

    • Anatoly I. Raikhlin, Victor L. Masaitis
    Pages 127-135

  7. Impact Diamonds from Shocked Crystalline Rocks and Impactites

    • Georgy I. Shafranovsky
    Pages 137-156

  8. General Patterns of Impact Diamond Distribution

    • Victor L. Masaitis, Tatjana V. Selivanovskaya, Anatoly I. Raikhlin, Valery T. Kirichenko
    Pages 157-180

  9. Origin of Diamond-Bearing Impactites

    • Victor L. Masaitis
    Pages 181-201

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 203-204
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About this book

This book highlights the most prominent research on the Popigai meteorite crater (Siberia, Russia), the 6th largest known impact structure in the world. Not only does the crater have a diameter of roughly 100 km, it is also an estimated 35.7 million years old.

This monograph is an updated, extended and revised edition of the Russian-language book “Diamond-bearing Impactites of Popigai Astrobleme” and presents the most comprehensive research on the Popigai impact structure. The Popigai crater is unique in that the total amount of impact diamonds it contains exceeds all the other diamond-bearing provinces of the world.

The work presented here is based on the geological mapping, core logging, geophysical survey and petrological studies of the crater, and was written by the team of geologists who first described the Popigai impact structure and its diamonds, and took part in the exploration of their deposits from 1970 to 1985.

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • A. P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI), St. Petersburg, Russia

    Victor L. Masaitis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Popigai Impact Structure and its Diamond-Bearing Rocks

  • Editors: Victor L. Masaitis

  • Series Title: Impact Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77988-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77987-4Published: 05 June 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08592-6Published: 05 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77988-1Published: 26 May 2018

  • Series ISSN: 1612-8338

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 204

  • Number of Illustrations: 72 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Geology, Mineral Resources, Geophysics/Geodesy, Geochemistry

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