THE RIES IMPACT STRUCTURE (GERMANY)

More images and a more general text will be added soon. Below, you will see maps, an old volcanic-explosion sketch for the Ries crater, a modern geologic cross section, outcrops, impactite samples, peculiar deformations, shattercones, and this and that.

The Ries impact structure on the geologic map of Bavaria (1 : 500,000; by courtesy of Bayerisches Geologisches Landesamt).

Geologic general map of the Ries impact structure.

For more than 150 years: the Ries impact structure as a volcanic explosion crater.

A modern model of the Ries impact structure based on geophysical measurements (see http://www.impact-structures.com/geophysic/geophysikgravimtrie.html) and deep boreholes.