Event-and biostratigraphic evidence for two independent Ries and Steinheim asteroid impacts in the Middle Miocene

E Buchner, VJ Sach, M Schmieder - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
For decades, the Nördlinger Ries and Steinheim Basin in southern Germany have been
regarded as a textbook example of a terrestrial impact crater doublet, although the oldest …

A review of the distribution of the Nördlinger Ries distal impact ejecta and its chronological constraint for the formation of the Middle Miocene Steinheim event

E Buchner, M Schmieder, VJ Sach… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Since the 1970s, it has been widely accepted that the Nördlinger Ries and the Steinheim
impact structures represent a crater doublet formed by the simultaneous impact of a binary …

New discovery of two seismite horizons challenges the Ries–Steinheim double-impact theory

E Buchner, VJ Sach, M Schmieder - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The Nördlinger Ries and the Steinheim Basin are widely perceived as a Middle Miocene
impact crater doublet. We discovered two independent earthquake-produced seismite …

The Steinheim Basin impact crater (SW-Germany)–Where are the ejecta?

E Buchner, M Schmieder - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
The∼ 24 km Nördlinger Ries and the∼ 3.8 km Steinheim Basin in southern Germany are
thought to represent a∼ 14.8 Ma old impact crater doublet. The complex craters of the …

The Chöpfi pinnacles near Winterthur, Switzerland: long-distance effects of the Ries impact-earthquake?

M Schmieder, VJ Sach, E Buchner - International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
The mid-Miocene Ries impact in southern Germany is Central Europe's biggest cosmic
disaster in Phanerozoic geologic history. While earlier theories posited the Ries impact was …

A volcanic ash layer in the Nördlinger Ries impact structure (Miocene, Germany): Indication of crater fill geometry and origins of long‐term crater floor sagging

G Arp, I Dunkl, D Jung, V Karius… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Since its recognition as an impact structure 60 years ago, no volcanics were anticipated in
the circular depression of the 14.8 Ma old Nördlinger Ries. Here, we describe for the first …

New evidence for persistent impact‐generated hydrothermal activity in the Miocene Ries impact structure, Germany

G Arp, C Kolepka, K Simon, V Karius… - … & Planetary Science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The extent of impact‐generated hydrothermal activity in the 24 km sized Ries impact
structure has been controversially discussed. To date, mineralogical and isotopic …

[PDF][PDF] The Chiemgau meteorite impact and tsunami event (southeast Germany): First OSL dating

I Liritzis, N Zacharias, GS Polymeris, G Kitis… - Mediterranean …, 2010 - academia.edu
ABSTRACT A more exact dating of the Chiemgau meteorite impact in Bavaria, southeast
Germany, that produced a large strewn field of more than 80 craters sized between a few …

Chemical and ecological evolution of the Miocene Ries impact crater lake, Germany: A reinterpretation based on the Enkingen (SUBO 18) drill core

G Arp, M Blumenberg, BT Hansen, D Jung… - …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Scientific drilling conducted at the inner slope of the Miocene central Ries impact crater
recovered a partial section of crater lake sediments. Four sequences were recovered …

Shaking and splashing—A case study of far‐field effects of the Mjølnir asteroid impact on depositional environments in the Barents Sea

R Bruhn, J Nagy, M Smelror, H Dypvik, S Glimsdal… - Basin …, 2023 - earthdoc.org
The Mjølnir impact crater in the Norwegian Barents Sea features among the 20 largest
impact craters listed in the Earth Impact Database. The impact is dated to 142±2.6 Ma …