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Project Acronym: GYGY | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5011

ins.: 2009-04-26 02:00, 16 yrs ago
By: Scientists
Category: Elgygytgyn
Elgygytgyn

Elgygytgyn: 2009-04-26

A suevitic breccia – which is a melt-bearing polymict impact ...
Some of the first impact breccia recovered directly below theearliest lake sediment record.

A suevitic breccia – which is a melt-bearing polymict impact breccia (i.e., a rock that consists of broken pieces of many different target rocks, with a little impact melt rock mixed in), from about 316 m below the lake floor, just below the transition from the post-impact lake sediments. The glassy melt rock, which forms during the impact when some of the rock is heated to over 2000°C, is the dark gray frothy inclusion in the center of the core segment.