A peak ring crater is a type of
complex crater
Complex craters are a type of large impact crater morphology.
Above a certain threshold size, which varies with planetary gravity, the collapse and modification of the transient cavity is much more extensive, and the resulting structure is cal ...
, which is different from a
multi-ringed basin
A multi-ringed basin (also a multi-ring impact basin) is not a simple bowl-shaped crater, or a peak ring crater, but one containing multiple concentric topographic rings; a multi-ringed basin could be described as a massive impact crater, surro ...
or central-peak crater. A central peak is not seen; instead, a roughly circular ring or plateau, possibly discontinuous, surrounds the
crater's center, with the crater rim still farther out from the center.
Formation
The rings form by different processes, and inner rings may not be formed by the same processes as outer rings.
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It has long been the view that peak rings are formed in the stage subsequent to central peak formation in craters. The central peaks of craters are believed to originate from hydrodynamic flow of material lifted by inward-collapsing crater walls, while impact-shattered rock debris is briefly turned to fluid by strong vibrations that develop during crater formation. The peak-ring structure of
Chicxulub crater
The Chicxulub crater () is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore near the community of Chicxulub, after which it is named. It was formed slightly over 66 million years ago when a large a ...
was probably formed as inward-collapsing material struck the over-steepened central peak, to form a hydraulic jump at the location where the peak ring was located.
Other theories have been formulated. Perhaps, in the case of
Chicxulub crater
The Chicxulub crater () is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore near the community of Chicxulub, after which it is named. It was formed slightly over 66 million years ago when a large a ...
, an over-high central peak collapsed into the peak ring.
According to Sean Gulick, a geophysicist at the University of Texas, Chicxulub is Earth's only crater to have an intact peak ring structure.
However, another example is shown below at
West Clearwater Lake in Canada.
Examples
File:Raditladi basin 2015.jpg, Raditladi, a relatively young peak-ring crater on Mercury
File:Barton crater.jpg, Barton crater, a peak-ring crater on Venus
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STS61A Clearwater Lakes.jpg, West Clearwater Lake (upper left) on Earth
File:Schrödinger (LRO) 500 km.png, Schrödinger, a peak-ring crater on the Moon
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File:Lowell crater PIA02836.jpg, Lowell is probably the best example of a peak-ring crater on Mars
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See also
On Mercury:
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Ahmad Baba
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Caravaggio
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Chekhov
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Eminescu
Mihai Eminescu (; born Mihail Eminovici; 15 January 1850 – 15 June 1889) was a Romanian Romantic poet from Moldavia, novelist, and journalist, generally regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Eminescu was an active memb ...
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Holst
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Homer
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Michelangelo
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Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...
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Nabokov
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Polygnotus
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Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one o ...
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Raditladi
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Renoir
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On Venus:
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Barton
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Isabella
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Meitner
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Mona Lisa
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Wheatley Wheatley may refer to:
Places
* Wheatley (crater), on Venus
* Wheatley, Ontario, Canada
* Wheatley, Hampshire, England
* Wheatley, Oxfordshire, England
** Wheatley railway station
* Wheatley, South Yorkshire, England
* Wheatley, now Ben Rhyddi ...
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Yablochkina
On Earth:
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Chesapeake Bay
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Chicxulub
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Ries Ries is the German word for a unit of paper ream, derived from the Arabic word ''rizma''.
The term can refer to:
Geography
* Nördlinger Ries, a large circular depression in western Bavaria, Germany.
* Ries (Graz), a district of the city of G ...
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West Clearwater Lake
On the Moon:
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Apollo
Apollo, grc, Ἀπόλλωνος, Apóllōnos, label=genitive , ; , grc-dor, Ἀπέλλων, Apéllōn, ; grc, Ἀπείλων, Apeílōn, label=Arcadocypriot Greek, ; grc-aeo, Ἄπλουν, Áploun, la, Apollō, la, Apollinis, label= ...
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Antoniadi
Eugène Michel Antoniadi (Greek: Ευγένιος Αντωνιάδης; 1 March 1870 – 10 February 1944) was a Greek- French astronomer.
Biography
Antoniadi was born in Istanbul (Constantinople) but spent most of his adult life in Fran ...
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Grimaldi
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Hertzsprung
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Korolev
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Milne
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Poincaré
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Schrödinger
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Schiller-Zucchius Basin
The Schiller-Zucchius Basin is a Pre-Nectarian impact basin on the near side of the moon. It is named after the elongated crater Schiller at the northeast margin and fresh crater Zucchius near the southwest margin. This basin has received the u ...
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Freundlich-Sharonov Basin
The Freundlich-Sharonov Basin is a Pre-Nectarian impact basin on the far side of the moon. It is named after the younger craters Freundlich near the northwest margin and Sharonov near the southwest margin. It lies east of Mare Moscoviense basi ...
On Mars:
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Galle
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Herschel
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Kepler
Johannes Kepler (; ; 27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws o ...
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Lowell
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Lyot
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Schiaparelli
References
External links and references
Understanding the Impact Cratering Process: a Simple ApproachHow the dino-killing asteroid put a ring on its crater Scott K. Johnson, ''Ars Technica'', 11/17/2016
Peak-Ring Structure Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms
The formation of peak rings in large impact craters Joanna V. Morgan ''et al.'', 2016,
Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence ...
, 18 Nov 2016: Vol. 354, Issue 6314, pp. 878–882
Impact craters
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