2020
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-43745/v1
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The Ries-Steinheim crater pair and two major earthquakes – New discoveries challenging the double-impact theory

Abstract: The Nördlinger Ries and the Steinheim Basin are widely perceived as a Middle Miocene impact crater doublet. We discovered two independent earthquake-produced seismite horizons in North Alpine Foreland Basin deposits. The older seismite horizon,associated with the Ries impact is overlain by in situ-preserved distal impact ejecta, forming a unique continental seismite-ejecta couplet within a distance up to 180 km from the crater. The younger seismite unit, also triggered by a major palaeo-earthquake, comprises c… Show more

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