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Anomalous shocked quartz with high density (less than 1 % of density-deviation) is considered to be a relict of ultra high-pressure at meteoritic impact. The shocked quartz grains can be found only in terrestrial and artificial impact craters, meteorites and the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) boundary samples. Volcanic activity is considered to be started or accelerated by enormous impact event.
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Miura, Y., Kato, T., Imai, M. (1992). Evidence Of Earth Catastrophe By Anomalous Shocked Quartz At The Kit Boundary. In: Clube, S.V.M., Yabushita, S., Henrard, J. (eds) Dynamics and Evolution of Minor Bodies with Galactic and Geological Implications. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2743-1_20
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