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Origin of Diamond-Bearing Impactites

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Popigai Impact Structure and its Diamond-Bearing Rocks

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The Popigai impact event due to its huge capacity affected the environment causing significant damage of the Earth’s surface within a radius of many hundreds and thousands of kilometers. Data obtained from a detailed study of the geological structure of the impact site made it possible to clarify the concepts of some impact mechanisms of displacing masses of rocks and formation of concentric uplift and subsidence within the structure. They also made it possible to evaluate the parameters of the shock event and the physical-chemical and spatial parameters of the formation of the impact melt and conditions of graphite to diamond transformation. The petrological model of the origin of diamond-bearing impactites for several reconstructed stages of melt and rock formation has been considered within the framework of the actual cratering process.

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Masaitis, V.L. (2019). Origin of Diamond-Bearing Impactites. In: Masaitis, V. (eds) Popigai Impact Structure and its Diamond-Bearing Rocks. Impact Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77988-1_8

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