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Explorer’s Guide to Impact Craters
Haughton Crater Tour
- Getting to Ries Crater
- Virtual Tour of Ries Crater
- Nördlingen
- Ries Tour – Stop 1
- Ries Tour – Stop 2
- Ries Tour – Stop 3
- Ries Tour – Stop 4
- Ries Tour – Stop 5
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- Ries Tour – Stop 7
- Ries Tour – Stop 8
- Ries Tour – Stop 9
- Ries Tour – Stop 10
- Ries Tour – Stop 11
- Ries Tour – Stop 12
- Ries Tour – Stop 13
- Ries Tour – Stop 14
- Ries Tour – Stop 15
- Ries Tour – Stop 16
- Ries Tour – Stop 17
- Ries Tour – Stop 18
Stop 11 at Ries
Bunte breccia at the Harburg quarry
Photo: G. Osinski, University of Western Ontario
Location: 2 kilometers outside the southeast crater rim
Scale: Height of the cliff is 10 meters
This large active quarry at Harburg is one of the best places around the Ries structure to study the Bunte Breccia ejecta blanket. As we’ve discussed before, Bunte Breccia is an impact breccia that contains fragments of sedimentary rocks with some crystalline material, but no impact glass. At this location, we can see several meter-sized fragments and blocks of limestone, sandstone, and shale, all mixed together by the force of the impact event.