Abstract-Geological and geophysical evidence is presented for a newly discovered, probable remnant complex impact structure. The structure, located near Bow City, southern Alberta, has no obvious morphological expression at surface. The geometry of the structure in the shallow subsurface, mapped using downhole geophysical well logs, is a semicircular structural depression approximately 8 km in diameter with a semicircular uplifted central region. Detailed subsurface mapping revealed evidence of localized duplication of stratigraphic section in the central uplift area and omission of strata within the surrounding annular region. Field mapping of outcrop confirmed an inlier of older rocks present within the center of the structure. Evidence of deformation along the eastern margin of the central uplift includes thrust faulting, folding, and steeply dipping bedding. Normal faults were mapped along the northern margin of the annular region. Isopach maps reveal that structural thickening and thinning were accommodated primarily within the Belly River Group. Evidence from legacy 2-D seismic data is consistent with the subsurface mapping and reveals additional insight into the geometry of the structure, including a series of listric normal faults in the annular region and complex faulting within the central uplift. The absence of any ejecta blanket, breccia, suevite, or melt sheet (based on available data) is consistent with the Bow City structure being the remnant of a deeply eroded, complex impact structure. Accordingly, the Bow City structure may provide rare access and insight into zones of deformation remaining beneath an excavated transient crater in stratified siliciclastic target rocks.

As a kind of complex targets, the nonrigid vibration and attitude change of an aircraft as well as the rotation of its rotating parts will induce complex nonlinear modulation on its echo from low-resolution radars. If one performs the multifractal analysis of measures on an aircraft echo, it may offer a fine description of the dynamic characteristics which induce the echo structure. On basis of introducing multifractal theory based on structural functions, the paper models real recorded aircraft echo data from a low-resolution radar by using the random walk process and the incremental process respectively, and investigates the application of echo multifractal characteristics in aircraft target classification with low-resolution radars. The analysis shows that aircraft echoes from low-resolution radars have clear multifractal characteristics, and one should take an aircraft echo series as a random walk process to perform the multifractal analysis. The experimental results validate the classification method based on multifractal signatures.

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