Veevers meteorite, Veevers Crater, Gibson desert, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 22° 58' 12'' South , 125° 22' 21'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -22.97003,125.37267 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qgcjkfmtf |
| Locality type: | Meteorite Fall Location |
| Meteorite Class: | IIAB iron meteorite |
| Meteoritical Society Class: | Iron, IIAB |
| Metbull: | View entry in Meteoritical Bulletin Database |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Veevers crater is an impact crater located on a flat desert plain between the Great Sandy and Gibson Deserts in the center of the state of Western Australia, Australia. The site is very remote and difficult to visit.
The iron meteorite fragments collected around the crater are classified as a coarse octahedrite belonging to chemical class IIAB; the fragments show considerable evidence of deformation presumably related to the impact explosion.[7] It has been inferred that the original meteorite was in the size range of 100-1000 tonnes, probably closer to the latter, now dispersed as fragments within the crater breccia and ejecta.
Mineral List
2 valid minerals.
Meteorite/Rock Types Recorded
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This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.
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| Cenozoic 0 - 66 Ma ID: 928046 | sand plain 38499 Age: Cenozoic (0 - 66 Ma) Description: Sand or gravel plains; may include some residual alluvium; quartz sand sheets commonly with ferruginous pisoliths or pebbles; local clay, calcrete, laterite, silcrete, silt, colluvium Comments: regolith; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Regolith Reference: Raymond, O.L., Liu, S., Gallagher, R., Zhang, W., Highet, L.M. Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition. Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia). [5] |
| Cretaceous 66 - 145 Ma ID: 3185296 | Mesozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Cretaceous (66 - 145 Ma) Comments: Canning Basin Lithology: Conglomerate,siltstone,shale,sandstone Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
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Veevers meteorite, Veevers Crater, Gibson desert, Western Australia, Australia