Wykorzystanie danych Numerycznego Modelu Terenu do poszukiwania i wstępnej identyfikacji struktur impaktowych

• Authors: Tomasz Walesiak

Title variants

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Use of the digital elevation models (DEM) as a tool for searching and preliminary identification of impact structures

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Is it possible that in Poland, instead of Morasko and still unconfirmed structures Porzadzie, Jaszczulty and Ochudno, may exist some other impact craters? To answer this question, investigations were performed, which were based on the digital elevation models. There are plenty of cavities, having different origin (e.g. a result of past glaciations, human activities or the Second World War), where some criteria may be applied, which could help to distinguish one from another. The main assumption was that during oblique impact (low angle in relation to the surface) there may develop special type of craters having cardioid (heart-shaped) ejecta pattern (as well as shape of cavity), with axis of symmetry parallel to the initial trajectory. Such structures were observed many times during experiments as well as can be easily found on other celestial bodies. Having preserved rims, even if they are much shallower than typical craters (because of secondary changes), such cavities are perfect candidates to be suspected of the impact origin. As a result of research between 2015 and 2017 there were discovered 3 locations (instead of Ochudno) with heart-shaped structures, which may represent combined effect of ejection angles, velocities and directions, known from experiments and confirmed craters. In all cases there are noticeable rims. The largest “spoon-like” structure, discovered near the Rowista village, is almost perfect copy of a very unusual elongated crater located north of the Acheron Fossae on Mars.

Keywords

EN

cardioid pattern; crater field; impact structures; morphometry; oblique

Discipline

• GEOPHYSICS: GEOPHYSICS

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Meteorytowe
• Journal: Acta Societatis Metheoriticae Polonorum
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 11
• Pages: 110-124

Contributors

author

Tomasz Walesiak

• Warszawa

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• Document Type: article