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Suevite breccias at Zipplingen
Suevite breccias at Zipplingen
Photo: G. Osinski, University of Western Ontario
Location: Megablock zone one kilometer inside the northwest crater rim
Scale: Length of rock hammer is 35 centimeters

As we discussed at the last stop, suevites are impact breccias that contain fragments and patches of impact glass. At this small roadside outcrop just north of Zipplingen, we can see black patches of impact glass and abundant white fragments of shocked gneiss and granite. Suevites contain rocks excavated from as deep as 2 kilometers by the impact event! To learn more about suevites, click here.

Overview of the roadside outcrop of suevite at Zipplingen

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