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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
- 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 8 at Ries
Faulted rocks in the crater rim at Wemding quarry
Photo: G. Osinski, University of Western Ontario
Location: 500 meters inside the east crater rim
Scale: Height of the cliff is 40 meters
About 1 kilometer south of the town of Wemding, there is a large Malm limestone quarry. Here, we can clearly see the effects of the impact event: originally flat-lying Malm limestones were fractured, tilted, and faulted, during collapse of the crater rim. This inward collapse of large kilometer-sized blocks of rock formed the megablock zone of the Ries structure. Our next stop is a quarry in the village of Otting