AZUARA BASIN

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AZUARA BASIN
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an Eocene-Oligocene Impact Structure
-What makes a crater a crater?
1. Shatter cones 2. Breccias and Breccia Dikes 3.
Shock metamorphism 4. Impact melts
-THE CONTROVERSY
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NOT A REAL SLIDE (MADE YOU LOOK!)

• Bottom left to right
• 1. shatter cone
• 2. breccia dike, rubielos de la cerida
• 3. PDFs (planar deformation feature) in quartz
• 4. carbonate/silicate liquid immiscibility (from
  Ries)
• CHRISS ADDITION- BREECIA (MATCHED TITLES COLOR
  SCHEME?)