Flaxman crater
Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox terrestrial impact site Flaxman is a meteorite impact site in South Australia, Australia.
It is up to 10 km long, though probably shorter, and is very narrow. Quartz rocks in the valley are affected by impact pressures and these deformation features are thought to be due to a ricochet event from a nearby impact at the Crawford crater, part of a proposed wider multiple impact. The impact date for the Flaxman site is as for Crawford, both estimated to be greater than 35 million years (probably Eocene). The affected rocks are exposed at the surface.[1]
References
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Further reading
- Alley, A. F., Geological Survey of Southern Australia Bulletin, v.54, p. 151-218. 1995
- Haines, P. W., Impact Cratering and Distal Ejecta: The Australian Record. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 52, P. 481 - 507. 2005
- Haines, P. W., Therriault, A.M. and Kelley, S.P., Evidence for a mid-Cenozoic (?), low angle multiple impacts in south Australia. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, v.34, supplement, p. 49. 1999