Formation of central uplift structures in large, complex impact craters: Mechanical importance of pseudotachylitic breccia zones and prominent dislocations in the development of the Vredefort Dome, South Africa

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Wolf Uwe Reimold
• Subject Area: Palaeontology
• Term: from 2006 to 2012
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 30307603

• Final Report Year: 2009

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• 2007. From map to model – 3D visualization of the Vredefort Central Uplift, South Africa. Bridging The Gap II – Workshop on Impact Cratering, Montreal, Lunar and Planetary Institute Contrib. No.1360, abstract #8002, 2pp.
  Jahn, A., Riller, U. and Reimold, W.U.
  
• 2007. Importance of pseudotachylitic breccia zones for understanding the formation of central uplift structures: Field evidence from the Vredefort Dome, South Africa. Bridging The Gap II – Workshop on Impact Cratering, Montreal, Lunar and Planetary Institute Contrib. No.1360, abstract #8071, 2pp.
  Lieger, D., Riller, U., Reimold, W. U., Gibson, R. L.
  
• 2008. 3D modeling of ground-truth data – the formation of the Vredefort Central Uplift, South Africa. Paneth Kolloquium 2008, Nördlingen, PC2008-25
  Jahn, A., Reimold, W.U. and Riller, U.
  
• 2008. Formation of fragment-rich pseudotachylite zones during central uplift formation in the Vredefort Impact Structure, South Africa. Lunar and Planetary Institute Contrib. 1423, 128-129
  Lieger, D., Riller, U., Reimold, W. U., Gibson, R. L.
  
• 2008. Generation of radial and concentric melt-filled dislocation zones in the central uplift of the Vredefort Impact Structure, South Africa. Geotectonic Research 95/1 Special Issue TSK 12, Karlsruhe, 2pp.
  Lieger, D. and Riller, U.
  
• 2008. Observations and interpretations at Vredefort, Sudbury and Chicxulub: Towards an empirical model of terrestrial impact basin formation. Meteorit. Planet. Sci., v. 43, p. 855–882
  Grieve, R.A.F., Reimold, W.U., Morgan, J., Riller, U., Pilkington, M.
  
• 2008. The Geology of the Vredefort impact structure. Memoir 97, Council for Geoscience, Pretoria, 188 pp.
  Gibson, R.L. and Reimold, W.U.
  
• 2008. Three-dimensional modeling of groundtruth data – a new approach for understanding the significance of prominent discontinuities during the formation of the Vredefort Central Uplift, South Africa. Lunar and Planetary Institute Contrib. 1423, 103-104
  Jahn, A., Riller, U. and Reimold, W.U.
  
• 2009. Generation of fragment-rich pseudotachylite bodies during central uplift formation in the Vredefort Impact Structure, South Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 279, 53-64
  Lieger, D., Riller, U., Gibson, R.L.