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Continental Drilling and the Study of Impact Craters and Processes — an ICDP Perspective

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Continental Scientific Drilling

Abstract

Currently about 170 impact craters are known on Earth; about one third of those structures are not exposed on the surface and can only be studied by geophysics or drilling. The impact origin of geological structures can only be confirmed by petrographic and geochemical studies; thus, it is of crucial importance to obtain samples of subsurface structures. In addition, structures that have surface exposures commonly require drilling and drill cores to obtain information of the subsurface structure, to provide ground-truth for geophysical studies, and to obtain samples of rock types not exposed at the surface. For many years, drilling of impact craters was rarely done in dedicated projects, mainly due to the high cost involved. Structures were most often drilled for reasons unrelated to their impact origin. In the former Soviet Union a number of impact structures were drilled for scientific reasons, but in most of these cases the curation and proper care of the cores was not guaranteed.

More recently the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) has supported projects to study impact craters. The first ICDPsupported study of an impact structure was the drilling into the 200-kmdiameter, K-T boundary age, subsurface Chicxulub impact crater, Mexico, which occurred between December 2001 and February 2002. The core retrieved from the borehole Yaxcopoil-1, 60 km SSW from the center of the structure, reached a depth of 1511 m and intersected 100 m of impact melt breccia and suevite, which has been studied by an international team. From June to October 2004, the 10.5 km Bosumtwi crater, Ghana, was drilled within the framework of an ICDP project, to obtain a complete 1 million year paleoenvironmental record in an area for which only limited data exist, and to study the subsurface structure and crater fill of one of the best preserved large, young impact structures. From September to December 2005, the main part of another ICDP-funded drilling project was conducted, at the 85-km-diameter Chesapeake Bay impact structure, eastern USA, which involved drilling to a depth of 1.8 km. In 2008, it is likely that the El’ygytgyn structure (Arctic Russia) will be drilled as well. So far only few craters have been drilled — not enough to gain a broad understanding of impact crater formation processes and consequences.

In this chapter we summarize the current status of scientific drilling at impact craters, and provide some guidance and suggestions about future drilling projects that are relevant for impact research. Points we cover include: what is the importance of studying impact craters and processes, why is it important to drill impact craters or impact crater lakes, which important questions can be answered by drilling, which craters would be good targets and why; is there anything about the impact process, or of impact relevance, that can be learned by drilling outside any craters; what goals should be set for the future; how important is collaboration between different scientific fields? In the following report, we first briefly discuss the importance of impact cratering, then summarize experience from past drilling projects (ICDP and others), and finally we try to look into the future of scientific drilling of impact structures.

prepared with the help of the ICDP impact crater working group (see acknowledgments)

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    Christian Koeberl

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Koeberl, C., Milkereit, B. (2007). Continental Drilling and the Study of Impact Craters and Processes — an ICDP Perspective. In: Harms, U., Koeberl, C., Zoback, M.D. (eds) Continental Scientific Drilling. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68778-8_3

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