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
- Ries Tour – Stop 6
- 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 13 at Ries
Old suevite quarry at Sternbach
Photo: G. Osinski, University of Western Ontario
Location: 3.5 kilometers outside of the south
This is yet another suevite quarry, which is no longer active and becoming overgrown by vegetation. Here we can see the two types of ejecta at the Ries structure: Bunte Breccia and Suevite. Where else have we seen this relationship of suevite overlying Bunte Breccia?
Answer: The Aumühle quarry (stop 4)
As with the Aumühle quarry, at Sternbach we see suevite overlying Bunte Breccia, with a very sharp contact between the two. This indicates that the Bunte Breccia was deposited first, it underlies the suevite, with the suevite being deposited later.
Suevite overlying Bunte Breccia
Photo: G. Osinski, University of Western Ontario
Location: 3.5 kilometers outside of the south crater rim
Scale: Height of the rock hammer is 35 centimeters
Shale clast within suevite
Photo: G. Osinski, University of Western Ontario
Location: 3.5 kilometers outside of the south crater rim
Scale: Length of the rock hammer head is 10 centimeterscentimeters