Glover Bluff crater
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Glover Bluff is a meteor crater located about 4 miles south of Coloma, Wisconsin, United States. The crater is located at N 43° 58'Latitude and W 89° 32' Longitude.
It is 8 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 500 million years (Cambrian or younger). The crater is exposed to surface.
The Glover Bluff impact site is among the least studied in the world, in part because for years the uplifted central area has been actively quarried for dolomite beneath the moraine left by retreating glaciers. Ironically, the very evidence supporting a meteoritic impact uncovered in the quarrying process is systematically being destroyed. Such evidence includes a central bulge, dipped strata, the presence of “shatter cones” (although no longer as common as they may once have been), and, “impact breccia.” There are “red” and “yellow” varieties (more of a brick red and tan yellow) and sometimes a mixture of the two. The breccia contains many broken fragments (or shards) of quartzite and other rocks. Here is a photograph of a slice of the red breccia which is about 11.0-cm (4 1/4-inches) across: [1]
[edit] Reference
- Dott, Robert H., Jr. and John W. Attig. Roadside Geology of Wisconsin. Missourla, Mo.: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2004.
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