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Structural Analysis of Deformed Central Peak Sediments

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The Mjølnir Impact Event and its Consequences

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The buried Mjølnir crater in the Barents Sea (Figs. 1.8 and 1.10) classifies as a complex impact structure with a central peak and an initially subtle peak ring (Gudlaugsson 1993; Dypvik et al. 1996, 2004b; Tsikalas et al. 1999). The Mjølnir bolide hit the paleo-Barents Sea (˜400–500 m water-depth at the time of impact) at an impact angle of 45° from a SW-SSW direction (Tsikalas ). The crater later underwent collapse, leveling by erosion and redepostion and burial (Smelror et al. ; Tsikalas et al. 2002b). Due to post-impact Cenozoic uplift and erosion the central peak is presently found a few tens of meters below the seafloor.

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  1. Department of Geoscience, University of Oslo, NO-0316, Oslo, Norway

    Roy H. Gabrielsen & Henning Dypvik

  2. Institute of the Dynamics of Geospheres, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Valery Shuvalov

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  1. Dept. Geology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Filippos Tsikalas

  2. Dept. Geology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Henning Dypvik

  3. (NGU), Geological Survey Norway, Trondheim, Norway

    Morten Smelror

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Gabrielsen, R.H., Dypvik, H., Shuvalov, V. (2010). Structural Analysis of Deformed Central Peak Sediments. In: Tsikalas, F., Dypvik, H., Smelror, M. (eds) The Mjølnir Impact Event and its Consequences. Impact Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88260-2_8

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