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Vredefort impact structure, Fezile Dabi District Municipality, Free State, South Africai
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Vredefort impact crater

Vredefort impact structure, Fezile Dabi District Municipality, Free State, South Africa
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Vredefort panorama

Vredefort impact structure, Fezile Dabi District Municipality, Free State, South Africa
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Impact shatter cones in quartzite

Vredefort impact structure, Fezile Dabi District Municipality, Free State, South Africa
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Vredefort impact crater

Vredefort impact structure, Fezile Dabi District Municipality, Free State, South Africa
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Vredefort panorama

Vredefort impact structure, Fezile Dabi District Municipality, Free State, South Africa
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Impact shatter cones in quartzite

Vredefort impact structure, Fezile Dabi District Municipality, Free State, South Africa
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Vredefort impact crater

Vredefort impact structure, Fezile Dabi District Municipality, Free State, South Africa
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Vredefort panorama

Vredefort impact structure, Fezile Dabi District Municipality, Free State, South Africa
Neighbouring regions:
Moqhaka Local Municipality, Fezile Dabi District Municipality, Free State, South Africa
Ngwathe Local Municipality, Fezile Dabi District Municipality, Free State, South Africa
Type:
Impact Structure
Age:
2023 ± 4 Ma
Geologic Time:
Orosirian
Dating method:
Dating shocked zircons in pseudotachylites and granophyre dykes.
Reference for age:
Kamo et al., 1996
Largest Settlements:
PlacePopulation
Parys71,319 (2012)
Vredefort10,649 (2012)
Mindat Locality ID:
131761
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:131761:2
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Other/historical names associated with this locality:
Vredefort dome


A huge meteorite impact structure, formed about 2 billion years ago.
Original diameter estimated to be 250-300 km.

"The dome in the centre of the impact structure was originally thought to have been formed by a volcanic explosion, but in the mid-1990s, evidence revealed it was the site of a huge bolide impact, as telltale shatter cones were discovered in the bed of the nearby Vaal River." (Wikipedia)

An UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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15 valid minerals.

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Detailed Mineral List:

ⓘ 'Amphibole Supergroup'
Formula: AB2C5(T8O22)W2
ⓘ Andalusite
Formula: Al2(SiO4)O
ⓘ 'Banded ironstone'
ⓘ 'Biotite'
Formula: K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
ⓘ Coesite
Formula: SiO2
ⓘ Cordierite
Formula: Mg2Al4Si5O18
ⓘ Corundum
Formula: Al2O3
ⓘ 'Garnet Group'
Formula: X3Z2(SiO4)3
ⓘ 'Hornblende Root Name Group'
Formula: ◻Ca2(C2+4C3+)(AlSi7O22)W2
ⓘ 'Hypersthene'
Formula: (Mg,Fe)SiO3
ⓘ Ilmenite
Formula: Fe2+TiO3
ⓘ 'K Feldspar'
ⓘ Kyanite
Formula: Al2(SiO4)O
ⓘ Magnetite
Formula: Fe2+Fe3+2O4
ⓘ 'Maskelynite'
ⓘ 'Monazite Group'
Formula: REE(PO4)
ⓘ Muscovite
Formula: KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
ⓘ 'Orthopyroxene Subgroup'
ⓘ 'Plagioclase'
Formula: (Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
ⓘ Quartz
Formula: SiO2
ⓘ Rutile
Formula: TiO2
ⓘ Sillimanite
Formula: Al2(SiO4)O
ⓘ Spinel
Formula: MgAl2O4
ⓘ Staurolite
Formula: Fe2+2Al9Si4O23(OH)
ⓘ Stishovite
Formula: SiO2
ⓘ Zircon
Formula: Zr(SiO4)

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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
ⓘMagnetite4.BB.05Fe2+Fe3+2O4
ⓘSpinel4.BB.05MgAl2O4
ⓘCorundum4.CB.05Al2O3
ⓘIlmenite4.CB.05Fe2+TiO3
ⓘQuartz4.DA.05SiO2
ⓘCoesite4.DA.35SiO2
ⓘStishovite4.DA.40SiO2
ⓘRutile4.DB.05TiO2
Group 9 - Silicates
ⓘZircon9.AD.30Zr(SiO4)
ⓘSillimanite9.AF.05Al2(SiO4)O
ⓘAndalusite9.AF.10Al2(SiO4)O
ⓘKyanite9.AF.15Al2(SiO4)O
ⓘStaurolite9.AF.30Fe2+2Al9Si4O23(OH)
ⓘCordierite9.CJ.10Mg2Al4Si5O18
ⓘMuscovite9.EC.15KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Unclassified
ⓘ'Amphibole Supergroup'-AB2C5(T8O22)W2
ⓘ'Biotite'-K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
ⓘ'Hypersthene'-(Mg,Fe)SiO3
ⓘ'Monazite Group'-REE(PO4)
ⓘ'Maskelynite'-
ⓘ'Hornblende Root Name Group'-◻Ca2(C2+4C3+)(AlSi7O22)W2
ⓘ'Plagioclase'-(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
ⓘ'K Feldspar'-
ⓘ'Garnet Group'-X3Z2(SiO4)3
ⓘ'Orthopyroxene Subgroup'-
ⓘ'Banded ironstone'-

List of minerals for each chemical element

HHydrogen
Hⓘ BiotiteK(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Hⓘ MuscoviteKAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Hⓘ StauroliteFe22+Al9Si4O23(OH)
OOxygen
Oⓘ Amphibole SupergroupAB2C5(T8O22)W2
Oⓘ AndalusiteAl2(SiO4)O
Oⓘ BiotiteK(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Oⓘ CoesiteSiO2
Oⓘ CordieriteMg2Al4Si5O18
Oⓘ CorundumAl2O3
Oⓘ Hypersthene(Mg,Fe)SiO3
Oⓘ IlmeniteFe2+TiO3
Oⓘ KyaniteAl2(SiO4)O
Oⓘ MagnetiteFe2+Fe23+O4
Oⓘ Monazite GroupREE(PO4)
Oⓘ MuscoviteKAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Oⓘ QuartzSiO2
Oⓘ RutileTiO2
Oⓘ SillimaniteAl2(SiO4)O
Oⓘ SpinelMgAl2O4
Oⓘ StauroliteFe22+Al9Si4O23(OH)
Oⓘ StishoviteSiO2
Oⓘ ZirconZr(SiO4)
Oⓘ Hornblende Root Name Group◻Ca2(C42+C3+)(AlSi7O22)W2
Oⓘ Plagioclase(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
Oⓘ Garnet GroupX3Z2(SiO4)3
FFluorine
Fⓘ BiotiteK(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
NaSodium
Naⓘ Plagioclase(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
MgMagnesium
Mgⓘ BiotiteK(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Mgⓘ CordieriteMg2Al4Si5O18
Mgⓘ Hypersthene(Mg,Fe)SiO3
Mgⓘ SpinelMgAl2O4
AlAluminium
Alⓘ AndalusiteAl2(SiO4)O
Alⓘ BiotiteK(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Alⓘ CordieriteMg2Al4Si5O18
Alⓘ CorundumAl2O3
Alⓘ KyaniteAl2(SiO4)O
Alⓘ MuscoviteKAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Alⓘ SillimaniteAl2(SiO4)O
Alⓘ SpinelMgAl2O4
Alⓘ StauroliteFe22+Al9Si4O23(OH)
Alⓘ Hornblende Root Name Group◻Ca2(C42+C3+)(AlSi7O22)W2
Alⓘ Plagioclase(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
SiSilicon
Siⓘ AndalusiteAl2(SiO4)O
Siⓘ BiotiteK(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Siⓘ CoesiteSiO2
Siⓘ CordieriteMg2Al4Si5O18
Siⓘ Hypersthene(Mg,Fe)SiO3
Siⓘ KyaniteAl2(SiO4)O
Siⓘ MuscoviteKAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Siⓘ QuartzSiO2
Siⓘ SillimaniteAl2(SiO4)O
Siⓘ StauroliteFe22+Al9Si4O23(OH)
Siⓘ StishoviteSiO2
Siⓘ ZirconZr(SiO4)
Siⓘ Hornblende Root Name Group◻Ca2(C42+C3+)(AlSi7O22)W2
Siⓘ Plagioclase(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
Siⓘ Garnet GroupX3Z2(SiO4)3
PPhosphorus
Pⓘ Monazite GroupREE(PO4)
KPotassium
Kⓘ BiotiteK(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Kⓘ MuscoviteKAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
CaCalcium
Caⓘ Hornblende Root Name Group◻Ca2(C42+C3+)(AlSi7O22)W2
Caⓘ Plagioclase(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
TiTitanium
Tiⓘ BiotiteK(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Tiⓘ IlmeniteFe2+TiO3
Tiⓘ RutileTiO2
FeIron
Feⓘ BiotiteK(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Feⓘ Hypersthene(Mg,Fe)SiO3
Feⓘ IlmeniteFe2+TiO3
Feⓘ MagnetiteFe2+Fe23+O4
Feⓘ StauroliteFe22+Al9Si4O23(OH)
ZrZirconium
Zrⓘ ZirconZr(SiO4)

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Wikidata ID:Q330095

Localities in this Region

South Africa
  • Free State
    • Fezile Dabi District Municipality

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Somali PlateTectonic Plate
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R L Gibson, W U Reimold, T Wallmach (1997) Origin of pseudotachylite in the lower Witwatersrand Supergroup, Vredefort Dome (South Africa); constraints from metamorphic studies, Tectonophysics 283(1-4), p. 241-262, Elsevier, Amsterdam, url
D E Moser (1997) Dating the shock wave and thermal imprint of the giant Vredefort impact, South Africa, Geology (Boulder) 25(1), p. 7-10, Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, url, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1997)0252.3.CO;2
Gibson, R.L., Armstrong, R.A., Reimold, W.U. (1997) The age and thermal evolution of the Vredefort impact structure: A single-grain U-Pb zircon study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61 (7). 1531-1540 doi:10.1016/s0016-7037(97)00013-6
E P Turtle, E Pierazzo (1998) Constraints on the size of the Vredefort impact crater from numerical modeling, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 33(3), p. 483-490, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
E P Turtle (1998) Finite-Element Modeling of Large Impact Craters: Implications for the Size of the Vredefort Structure and the Formation of Multiple Ring Craters, p. 4178, url
Herbert Henkel, Wolf Uwe Reimold (1998) Integrated geophysical modelling of a giant, complex impact structure; anatomy of the Vredefort Structure, South Africa, Tectonophysics 287(1-4), p. 1-20, Elsevier, Amsterdam, url
Nicolaysen, L. O., Reimold, W. U. (1999) Vredefort shatter cones revisited. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 104. 4911-4930 doi:10.1029/1998jb900068
J Rondot, Wolf Uwe Reimold (1999) About the size of the Vredefort impact crater, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34(4, Suppl.), p. 98-99, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
H Henkel, Wolf Uwe Reimold (1999) Geophysical modeling of impact structures, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34(4, Suppl.), p. 52-53, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
G Stevens, R A Armstrong, R L Gibson, Wolf Uwe Reimold (1999) Pre- and postimpact metamorphism in the core of the Vredefort Dome; clues to crustal response at a massive meteorite strike, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34(4, Suppl.), p. 112, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
M C Brink, F B Waanders, A A Bisschoff, Wolf Uwe Reimold (1999) Evolution of the ringed basin around Vredefort, South Africa, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34(4, Suppl.), p. 19-20, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
C L Hayward, Wolf Uwe Reimold (1999) Fluid movement and gold remobilization triggered by the Vredefort impact, Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34(4, Suppl.), p. 52, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
R L Gibson, W U Reimold (1999) The significance of the Vredefort Dome for the thermal and structural evolution of the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa, Mineralogy and Petrology 66(1-3), H E Frimmel (ed.), p. 5-23, Springer-Verlag, Vienna, url
C S Bootsman, W U Reimold, Wolf Uwe Reimold (1999) Some comparative geomorphic aspects of the Morokweng and Vredefort impact structures, South Africa, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34(4, Suppl.), p. 15, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
S Ellis, W U Reimold, Wolf Uwe Reimold (1999) Post-Transvaal Supergroup age thrusting related to the collapse phase of the Vredefort impact event; examples from the western ring basin area, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34(4, Suppl.), p. 34, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
S N Foya, R L Gibson, W U Reimold, Wolf Uwe Reimold (1999) Impact-related hydrothermal alteration of Witwatersrand gold reefs in the Vredefort Dome and Witwatersrand goldfields, South Africa, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34(4, Suppl.), p. 37-38, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
W P Colliston, H E Praekelt, R van der Merwe, B Stevens, Wolf Uwe Reimold (1999) Recognition of Vredefort-related and pre-Vredefort deformation in the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34(4, Suppl.), p. 27-28, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
R L Gibson, W U Reimold, Wolf Uwe Reimold (1999) The metamorphic fingerprint of large impact events; the example of the Vredefort Dome, South Africa, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34(4, Suppl.), p. 42-43, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
Marian Tredoux, Rodger J Hart, Richard W Carlson, Steven B Shirey (1999) Ultramafic rocks at the center of the Vredefort Structure; further evidence for the crust on edge model, Geology (Boulder) 27(10), p. 923-926, Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, url, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1999)0272.3.CO;2
M E Phillips, M A Bussell, I McDonald, R J Hart, M A G Andreoli, Wolf Uwe Reimold (1999) A remote-sensing and geological investigation of the Vredefort impact structure (South Africa) using Landsat thematic mapper imagery, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34(4, Suppl.), p. 92-93, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
Richard Grieve, Ann Therriault (2000) Vredefort, Sudbury, Chicxulub; three of a kind?, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 28, p. 305-338, Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, url
Gilmour, Iain, Koeberl, Christian (2000) Impacts and the Early Earth - Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences No. 91. Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/bfb0027753
M C Brink, F B Waanders, A A Bisschoff, N C Gay (2000) The Foch Thrust-Potchefstroom Fault structural system, Vredefort, South Africa; a model for impact-related tectonic movement over a pre-existing barrier, Journal of African Earth Sciences 30(1), p. 99-117, Pergamon, Oxford, url
Hart, R.J. (2000) 'Super magnetic' rocks generated by shock metamorphism from the centre of the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology, 103 (2) 151-155 doi:10.2113/103.2.151
Dressler, B.O., Reimold, W.U. (2001) Terrestrial impact melt rocks and glasses. Earth-Science Reviews, 56 (1) 205-284 doi:10.1016/s0012-8252(01)00064-2
P S Buchanan, W U Reimold, Guy Consolmagno (2001) Impact-related features in lithic clasts from the Vredefort Granophyre, South Africa, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 36(9, Suppl.), p. 31, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
R L Gibson, W U Reimold, Guy Consolmagno (2001) Petrographic evidence for high shock pressures and shock pressure heterogeneity in the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 36(9, Suppl.), p. 65, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
A Y Glikson, W R Jacoby, G Ranalli (2001) The astronomical connection of terrestrial evolution; crustal effects of post-3.8 Ga mega-impact clusters and evidence for major 3.2+ or -0.1 Ga bombardment of the Earth-Moon system, Journal of Geodynamics 32(1-2), p. 205-229, Pergamon Press, Oxford, url
H Henkel, W U Reimold (2002) Magnetic model of the central uplift of the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa, Journal of Applied Geophysics 51(1), p. 43-62, Elsevier, Amsterdam, url
Gibson, R. L. (2002) Impact-induced melting of Archean granulites in the Vredefort Dome, South Africa. I: anatexis of metapelitic granulites. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 20 (1) 57-70 doi:10.1046/j.0263-4929.2001.00358.x
Christian Koeberl, Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Wolf Uwe Reimold, Alex Shukolyukov, Guenter W Lugmair (2002) Comparison of the osmium and chromium isotopic methods for the detection of meteoritic components in impactites; examples from the Morokweng and Vredefort impact structures, South Africa, Special Paper - Geological Society of America 356, Christian Koeberl, Kenneth G MacLeod (ed.), p. 607-617, Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, url
P C Buchanan, W U Reimold (2002) Planar deformation features and impact glass in inclusions from the Vredefort Granophyre, South Africa, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 37(6), p. 807-822, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
Reimold, Wolf U., Leroux, Hugues, Gibson, Roger L. (2002) Shocked and thermally metamorphosed zircon from the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa: a transmission electron microscopic study. European Journal of Mineralogy, 14 (5) 859-868 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2002/0014-0859
Rainer Gersonde, Alexander Deutsch, Boris A Ivanov, Frank T Kyte (2002) Oceanic impacts; a growing field of fundamental geoscience, Deep-Sea Research. Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 49(6), p. 951-957, Pergamon, Oxford, url, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0645(01)00134-5
www.unb.ca (2002) http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/images/vredefort.htm
David A Kring (2003) Environmental consequences of impact cratering events as a function of ambient conditions on Earth, Astrobiology 3(1), Frank T Kyte (ed.), p. 133-152, Mary Ann Liebert, Larchmont, NY, url
Elizabeth P Turtle, Elisabetta Pierazzo, David P O'Brien (2003) Numerical modeling of impact heating and cooling of the Vredefort impact structure, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 38(2), p. 293-303, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
L L Perchuk, L V Sazonova, D D Van Rinen, T V Gerya (2003) Ultramylonites and their significance for understanding the history of the Vredefort explosive structure, South Africa, Petrologiya 11(2), p. 128-144, MAIK Nauka/Interperiodika, Moscow, url
R M Flowers, D E Moser, R J Hart (2003) Evolution of the amphibolite-granulite facies transition exposed by the Vredefort impact structure, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa, Journal of Geology 111(4), p. 455-470, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, url
Dressler, B.O., Reimold, W.U. (2004) Order or chaos? Origin and mode of emplacement of breccias in floors of large impact structures. Earth-Science Reviews, 67 (1) 1-54 doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2004.01.007
Richard A Grieve, Ann M Therriault (2004) Observations at terrestrial impact structures; their utility in constraining crater formation, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 39(2), Elisabetta Pierazzo, Robert Herrick (ed.), p. 199-216, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
Bevan M French (2004) The importance of being cratered; the new role of meteorite impact as a normal geological process, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 39(2), Elisabetta Pierazzo, Robert Herrick (ed.), p. 169-197, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
L L Perchuk (2005) Configuration of PT trends as a record of high-temperature polymetamorphism, Doklady Earth Sciences 401(2), p. 311-314, MAIK Nauka/Interperiodika, Moscow, url
David J Dunlop (2005) Magnetic impact craters, Nature (London) 435(7039), p. 156-157, Macmillan Journals, London, url
Ivanov, B. A. (2005) Numerical Modeling of the Largest Terrestrial Meteorite Craters. Solar System Research, 39 (5) 381-409 doi:10.1007/s11208-005-0051-0
Carporzen, Laurent, Gilder, Stuart A., Hart, Rodger J. (2005) Palaeomagnetism of the Vredefort meteorite crater and implications for craters on Mars. Nature, 435 (7039). 198-201 doi:10.1038/nature03560
Adrian P Jones, Kai Wuenemann, G David Price (2005) Modeling impact volcanism as a possible origin for the Ontong Java Plateau, Special Paper - Geological Society of America 388, Gillian R Foulger, James H Natland, Dean C Presnall, Don L Anderson (ed.), p. 711-720, Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, url, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2005.2388(40
Laurent Carporzen, S. Gilder, R. Hart (2005) Two distinct Verwey transitions in the shocked rocks from the Vredefort meteorite impact crater, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, p. A42, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005, abstract #GP13A-0042, url
E P Turtle, E Pierazzo, G S Collins, G R Osinski, H J Melosh, J V Morgan, Wolf Uwe Reimold (2005) Impact structures; what does crater diameter mean?, Special Paper - Geological Society of America 384, Thomas Kenkmann, Friedrich P Hoerz, Alex Deutsch (ed.), p. 1-24, Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, url
R. Hart, Laurent Carporzen, S. Gilder (2005) Paleomagnetism of Vredefort: Plasma, Lightning, or ?, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, p. A95, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005, abstract #GP33A-0095, url
Wenk, H.-R., Lonardelli, I., Vogel, S.C., Tullis, J. (2005) Dauphiné twinning as evidence for an impact origin of preferred orientation in quartzite: An example from Vredefort, South Africa. Geology, 33 (4) 273 doi:10.1130/g21163.1
F. B. Waanders, L. R. Tiedt, M. C. Brink, A. A. Bisschoff (2005) From Ore to Tool – Iron Age Iron Smelting in the Largest and Oldest Meteorite Crater in the World, Hyperfine Interactions 161(1-4), p. 21-31, url, doi:10.1007/s10751-005-9188-y
Roger L Gibson, Wolf Uwe Reimold (2005) Shock pressure distribution in the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa, Special Paper - Geological Society of America 384, Thomas Kenkmann, Friedrich P Hoerz, Alex Deutsch (ed.), p. 329-349, Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, url
CARPORZEN, L, GILDER, S, HART, R (2006) Origin and implications of two Verwey transitions in the basement rocks of the Vredefort meteorite crater, South Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 251 (3) 305-317 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.09.013
Wieland, F., Reimold, W. U., Gibson, R. L. (2006) New observations on shatter cones in the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa, and evaluation of current hypotheses for shatter cone formation. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 41 (11) 1737-1759 doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00449.x
Laurent Carporzen, Stuart A Gilder, R.J Hart (2006) How rock magnetism constrains the maximum temperature experienced by the Basement Rocks of the Vredefort Meteorite Crater, South Africa, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, p. A3, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #MR54A-03, url
Reimold, Wolf Uwe, Gibson, Roger L. (2006) The melt rocks of the Vredefort impact structure – Vredefort Granophyre and pseudotachylitic breccias: Implications for impact cratering and the evolution of the Witwatersrand Basin. Geochemistry, 66 (1) 1-35 doi:10.1016/j.chemer.2005.07.003
F. B. Waanders, M. C. Brink, A. A. Bisschoff (2006) Mössbauer study of two different aged rock types in the Vredefort structure, South Africa, Hyperfine Interactions 166(1-4), p. 693-698, url, doi:10.1007/s10751-006-9343-0
Raiza R Quintero, Aaron J Cavosie (2007) A petrographic study of shocked minerals from the Vredefort Dome, South Africa, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, p. B1232, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #MR43B-1232, url
Muundjua, Manfriedt, Hart, Rodger J., Gilder, Stuart A., Carporzen, Laurent, Galdeano, Armand (2007) Magnetic imaging of the Vredefort impact crater, South Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 261 (3) 456-468 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.044
Gibson R, Reimold W (2008) Geology of the Vredefort Impact Structure, South Africa Council of Geoscience Memoir 97
Sybrand de Waal (2008) The Roodekraal Complex as a constraint on the size of the Vredefort impact crater, South Africa, South African Journal of Geology 111(2-3), p. 305-312, Bureau for Scientific Publications, Pretoria, url
Fackelman, Siobhan P., Morrow, Jared R., Koeberl, Christian, McElvain, Thornton H. (2008) Shatter cone and microscopic shock-alteration evidence for a post-Paleoproterozoic terrestrial impact structure near Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 270 (3) 290-299 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.033
Armand Galdeano, M.A.G. Andreoli, R J Hart (2008) Magnetic Imaging of the Vredefort Dome: Implications for the Size and Geometry of the Vredefort Crater, LPI Contributions, p. 3051, Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV, held August 17-21, 2008 at Vredefort Dome, South Africa. LPI Contribution No. 1423, paper id. 3051, url
Reimold, W.U., Gibson, R.L., Henkel, H. (2008) Scientific comment on “Muundjua et al., 2007: Magnetic imaging of the Vredefort impact crater, South Africa, EPSL 261, 456–468”. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 273 (3) 393-396 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.06.046
Raiza R Quintero, Aaron J Cavosie, H.A. Radovan, Desmond E Moser (2008) Shocked Minerals in Siliciclastic Sediments From the Vredefort Dome: A New Approach Towards Searching for Impact Evidence From the Early Earth, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, p. B2123, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #V13B-2123, url
Richard A F Grieve, W Uwe Reimold, Joanna V Morgan, Ulrich Riller, Mark Pilkington (2008) Observations and interpretations at Vredefort, Sudbury, and Chicxulub; towards an empirical model of terrestrial impact basin formation, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 43(5), p. 855-882, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
Muundjua, Manfriedt, Galdeano, Armand, Carporzen, Laurent, Gilder, Stuart A., Hart, Rodger J., Andreoli, Marco A.G., Tredoux, Marian (2008) Reply to comment by W.U. Reimold, R.L. Gibson, and H. Henkel on Muundjua et al. (2007), “Magnetic imaging of the Vredefort impact crater, South Africa”, EPSL 261, pp 456–468. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 273 (3) 397-399 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.06.044
K. Bharuth-Ram, R. J. Hart, H. P. Gunnlaugsson (2008) Fe mineralogy of rocks from the Vredefort impact structure investigated with Mössbauer spectroscopy, Hyperfine Interactions 186(1-3), p. 199-203, url, doi:10.1007/s10751-008-9854-y
Jourdan, F., Renne, P.R., Reimold, W.U. (2009) An appraisal of the ages of terrestrial impact structures. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 286 (1) 1-13 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.07.009
Senft, Laurel E., Stewart, Sarah T. (2009) Dynamic fault weakening and the formation of large impact craters. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 287 (3) 471-482 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.033
Aaron J Cavosie, R.R. Quintero-Mendez, H.A. Radovan, D E Moser, John W Valley (2009) Evidence of ancient cataclysm in modern sand: shock microstructures in detrital quartz, zircon, and monazite from the Vaal River, Vredefort Dome, South Africa, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, p. C2039, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #V13C-2039, url
SALMINEN, J, PESONEN, L, REIMOLD, W, DONADINI, F, GIBSON, R (2009) Paleomagnetic and rock magnetic study of the Vredefort impact structure and the Johannesburg Dome, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa—Implications for the apparent polar wander path of the Kaapvaal Craton during the Mesoproterozoic. Precambrian Research, 168 (3) 167-184 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2008.09.005
Tanja Mohr-Westheide, W U Reimold, Anonymous (2009) Microchemical analysis of small-scale pseudotachylitic breccia zones from the central uplift of the Vredofort impact structure, South Africa, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 44, SUPPL., p. 0-Abstract 5107, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
Urrutia-Fucugauchi, J., Perez-Cruz, Ligia (2009) Multiring-forming large bolide impacts and evolution of planetary surfaces. International Geology Review, 51 (12) 1079-1102 doi:10.1080/00206810902867161
Jahn, Andreas, Riller, Ulrich (2009) A 3D model of first-order structural elements of the Vredefort Dome, South Africa — Importance for understanding central uplift formation of large impact structures. Tectonophysics, 478 (3) 221-229 doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2009.08.007
John G Spray, Suporn Boonsue, Anonymous (2009) Quartz-coesite-stishovite relations and genesis in shocked metaquartzites from the Vredefort impact structure, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 44, SUPPL., p. 0-Abstract 5289, Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, url
Lieger, Daniel, Riller, Ulrich, Gibson, Roger L. (2009) Generation of fragment-rich pseudotachylite bodies during central uplift formation in the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 279 (1) 53-64 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.12.031
Moynier, Frederic, Koeberl, Christian, Quitté, Ghylaine, Telouk, Philippe (2009) A tungsten isotope approach to search for meteoritic components in terrestrial impact rocks. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 286 (1) 35-40 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.06.014
Aaron J Cavosie, Timmons M Erickson, Henri A Radovan, Desmond E Moser, Anonymous (2010) Detrital shocked zircon, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74(12, Suppl. 1), p. 1, Elsevier, New York, NY, url
Laurent Carporzen, Benjamin P. Weiss, Stuart A. Gilder, R.J Hart (2010) Shock-generated magnetite in the Vredefort impact crater basement rocks, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, p. B1058, url
Riller, Ulrich, Lieger, Daniel, Gibson, Roger L., Grieve, Richard A.F., Stöffler, Dieter (2010) Origin of large-volume pseudotachylite in terrestrial impact structures. Geology, 38 (7) 619-622 doi:10.1130/g30806.1
Norihiro Nakamura, Kensaku Okuno, Minoru Uehara, Tetsuya Ozawa, Lisa Tatsumi-Petrocholis, Michael Fuller (2010) Coarse-grained magnetites in biotite as a possible stable remanence-carrying phase in Vredefort granites, Special Paper - Geological Society of America 465, Roger L Gibson, Wolf Uwe Reimold (ed.), p. 165-172, Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, url, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2010.2465(11
Tanja Mohr-Westheide, Wolf Uwe Reimold (2010) Microchemical investigation of small-scale pseudotachylitic breccias from the Archean gneiss of the Vredefort Dome, South Africa, Special Paper - Geological Society of America 465, Roger L Gibson, Wolf Uwe Reimold (ed.), p. 619-643, Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, url, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2010.2465(30
D E Moser, C Cupelli, I Barker, R Flowers, R J Hart, Anonymous (2010) Hot shock vs. cold shock zircon across the Vredefort Dome; a guide for interpreting residue of the LHB?, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74(12, Suppl. 1), p. 1, Elsevier, New York, NY, url
Cavosie, A. J., Quintero, R. R., Radovan, H. A., Moser, D. E. (2010) A record of ancient cataclysm in modern sand: Shock microstructures in detrital minerals from the Vaal River, Vredefort Dome, South Africa. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 122 (11) 1968-1980 doi:10.1130/b30187.1
Timmons M Erickson, Aaron J Cavosie, Henri A Radovan, Desmond E Moser, Anonymous (2010) Distal transport (>650 km) of detrital shocked zircon in a cratonic fluvial system; the Vaal River, South Africa, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74(12, Suppl. 1), p. 1, Elsevier, New York, NY, url
(2011) 74th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, August 8-12, 2011, London, U.K. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 46. doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01241.x
Beiki, Majid, Pedersen, Laust B. (2011) Window constrained inversion of gravity gradient tensor data using dike and contact models. Geophysics, 76 (6) doi:10.1190/geo2010-0368.1
(2011) 74th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, August 8-12, 2011, London, U.K. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 46. doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01241.x
Wenk, Hans-Rudolf, Janssen, Christoph, Kenkmann, Thomas, Dresen, Georg (2011) Mechanical twinning in quartz: Shock experiments, impact, pseudotachylites and fault breccias. Tectonophysics, 510 (1) 69-79 doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2011.06.016
MOHR-WESTHEIDE, Tanja, REIMOLD, Wolf Uwe (2011) Formation of pseudotachylitic breccias in the central uplifts of very large impact structures: Scaling the melt formation. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 46 (4) 543-555 doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01173.x
Moser, D. E., Cupelli, C. L., Barker, I. R., Flowers, R. M., Bowman, J. R., Wooden, J., Hart, J.R. (2011) New zircon shock phenomena and their use for dating and reconstruction of large impact structures revealed by electron nanobeam (EBSD, CL, EDS) and isotopic U–Pb and (U–Th)/He analysis of the Vredefort domeThis article is one of a series of papers published in this Special Issue on the theme of Geochronology in honour of Tom Krogh. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 48 (2) 117-139 doi:10.1139/e11-011
Lieger, Daniel, Riller, Ulrich, Gibson, Roger L. (2011) Petrographic and geochemical evidence for an allochthonous, possibly impact melt, origin of pseudotachylite from the Vredefort Dome, South Africa. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75 (16) 4490-4514 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.05.017
Carporzen, Laurent, Weiss, Benjamin P., Gilder, Stuart A., Pommier, Anne, Hart, Rodger J. (2012) Lightning remagnetization of the Vredefort impact crater: No evidence for impact-generated magnetic fields. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 117. doi:10.1029/2011je003919
Aaron J Cavosie, Henri A Radovan, Desmond E Moser, Ivan Barker, Joe Wooden, Kouki Kitajima, John W Valley, Anonymous (2012) Reconstructing impact basins from ex situ shocked zircon, Mineralogical Magazine 76(6), p. 1552, Mineralogical Society, London, url
Wielicki, Matthew M., Harrison, T. Mark, Schmitt, Axel K. (2012) Geochemical signatures and magmatic stability of terrestrial impact produced zircon. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 321. 20-31 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.009
Lieger, Daniel, Riller, Ulrich (2012) Emplacement history of Granophyre dikes in the Vredefort Impact Structure, South Africa, inferred from geochemical evidence. Icarus, 219 (1). 168-180 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.02.026
M Dane Picard (2012) Meteorite impact! The danger from space and South Africa's mega-impact; the Vredefort Structure, AAPG Bulletin 96(3), p. 560-561, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, OK, url
Youssof, M., Thybo, H., Artemieva, I.M., Levander, A. (2013) Moho depth and crustal composition in Southern Africa. Tectonophysics, 609. 267-287 doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2013.09.001
Stankiewicz, Jacek; de Wit, Maarten (2013) 3.5 billion years of reshaped Moho, southern Africa. Tectonophysics, 609. 675-689 doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2013.08.033
Erickson, Timmons M., Cavosie, Aaron J., Moser, Desmond E., Barker, Ivan R., Radovan, Henri A., Wooden, Joe (2013) Identification and provenance determination of distally transported, Vredefort-derived shocked minerals in the Vaal River, South Africa using SEM and SHRIMP-RG techniques. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 107. 170-188 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.12.008
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