001 Rochechouart; suevite, red Montoume variety

002 Ries; suevite, Otting variety

003 Rubielos de la Cérida; suevite, Barrachina variety

004 Azuara; breccia dikes, Fuendetodos

005 Rubielos de la Cérida; PDFs in quartz, Cretaceous sandstone, Portalrubio

006 Rochechouart; suevite, planar fractures in quartz

007 Azuara/Rubielos de la Cérida; SEM image of two sets of PDFs in quartz, Pelarda F. ejecta

008 Rubielos de la Cérida; impact melt rock, diaplectic feldspar

009 Ries; Aumühle quarry, suevite overlying Bunte breccia ejecta

010 Rubielos de la Cérida; Barrachina megabreccia and injected microbreccia (white)

011 Azuara; Cucalón, polymictic impact breccia

012 Azuara; Cucalón, impact melt rock

013 Azuara; suevite breccia, El Portillo variety

014 Rubielos de la Cérida; basal breccia (suevite), Visiedo

015 Azuara; basal breccia (suevite), Cucalón

016 Rubielos de la Cérida; basal breccia, breccia within breccia, El Pobo

017 Azuara; basal breccia (suevite), El Portillo variety

018 Rubielos de la Cérida; Puerto Mínguez impact ejecta

019 Azuara; breccia dike-within-breccia dike, Monforte de Moyuela

020 Rochechouart; suevite, Chassenon variety

021 Rubielos de la Cérida; carbonate-phosphate melt rock, Barrachina megabreccia

022 Ries; Nördlingen, Eugene Shoemaker square near the impact crater museum (and Ferran Claudin)

023 Azuara; impact melt rock, Almonacid de la Cuba

024 Rubielos de la Cérida; PDFs in quartz, Cretaceous sandstone, Portalrubio

025 Rochechouart; suevite, kink bands in shocked mica

026 Rubielos de la Cérida; multiple sets of microtwinning in shocked calcite

027 Azuara; PDFs and intergranular subparallel fracturing in quartz, shocked quartzite cobbles, La Yunta

028 Azuara; strongly shocked polymictic dike breccia, Santa Cruz de Nogueras

029 Azuara; plastically deformed Jurassic limestone platelets in polymictic breccia dike, Muniesa

030 Rubielos de la Cérida; shatter cones in Cambrian siltstones

031 Azuara; basal breccia (suevite), Almonacid de la Cuba

032 shock experiments on quartz single-crystal spheres: impact-produced spallation fractures

033 Azuara; strongly shocked polymictic dike breccia, Santa Cruz de Nogueras

034 Vredefort; breccia dikes (pseudotachylite), Parys, Vaal River

035 Azuara; breccia dikes, near Belchite

036 Azuara; multiple sets of PDFs in quartz, Virgen de Herrera, photomicrograph by courtesy of Alain Weissler (France)

037 Azuara; PDFs and kink bands in shocked quartz

038 Rubielos de la Cérida; deformation lamellae and kink bands in shocked quartz, rim zone near Calamocha

039 Azuara; glass in strongly shocked polymictic dike breccia, Santa Cruz de Nogueras

040 Azuara/Rubielos de la Cérida; shocked quartzite cobble displaying spallation fractures, Torre de las Arcas

041 Rubielos de la Cérida; Puerto Mínguez ejecta, rotated fractures, two axes of rotation

042 Azuara/Rubielos de la Cérida; Pelarda Fm. ejecta, between Fonfría, Olalla

043 Azuara; polymictic impact breccia, Herrera de los Navarros

044 Azuara; basal breccia (suevite), Cucalón

045 Rubielos de la Cérida; basal breccia (suevite), central uplift

046 Rubielos de la Cérida; basal breccia (suevite), El Pobo

047 Azuara; monomictic impact breccia (cataclasite), Herrera de los Navarros

048 Azuara; polymictic basal breccia (suevite); El Portillo

049 Azuara; polymictic basal breccia (suevite); El Portillo

050 Ries; Bunte breccia ejecta, Ronheim quarry

051 Ries; Bunte breccia ejecta overlying autochthonous Jurassic limestones, Ronheim quarry

052 Rubielos de la Cérida, glass (impact pseudotachylite)

053 Rubielos de la Cérida, glass (impact pseudotachylite)

054 Steinheimer Becken (Steinheim Basin); geological map

055 Azuara; satellite image

056 Ries; shattercone in kersantite, Wengenhausen

057 Azuara/Rubielos de la Cérida; Pelarda Fm. ejecta, quartzite megaclast, between Fonfría and Olalla

058 Ries; carbonate concretion from Bunte breccia ejecta, "bread cut to slices" deformation, Holheim

059 Rubielos de la Cérida; Puerto Mínguez ejecta, limestone clast, "bread cut to slices" deformation

060 Sudbury; Shattercone

061 Vredefort; shatter cones

062 Steinheim; shatter cones, positive and negative

063 Rochechouart; shatter cone

064 Rubielos de la Cérida; central-uplift megabreccia, criss-cross-layering of Jurassic limestones

065 Azuara; PDFs in quartz, sandstone clast in polymictic dike breccia, Santa Cruz de Nogueras

066 Ries; polymict impact breccia, inside the crater, Unterwilflingen

067 Rubielos de la Cérida; polymict impact breccia, inside the crater, Barrachina megabreccia

068 Rubielos de la Cérida; polymict impact breccia, inside the crater, Barrachina megabreccia, clast of impact melt rock (yellowish) above hammer

069 Azuara; PDF analysis by Ann Thierrault, Geological Survey of Canada

070 Vredefort; breccia dikes (pseudotachylite), Parys (Vaal River)

071 Azuara; breccia dikes, Barranco de Bocafoz, near Almonacid de la Cuba

072 Azuara; breccia dikes in Liassic limestones, Blesa

073 Azuara; crossing breccia dikes (two generations); near Ventas de Muniesa

074 Azuara; wide breccia dike in Palaeozoic siltstones; Virgen de Herrera

075 Azuara; breccia dikelet (photomicrograph) in shocked polymictic breccia; Santa Cruz de Nogueras

076 Azuara; breccia dikes in monomict impact breccia displaying mortar texture, Monforte de Moyuela

077 Azuara; mighty polymictic breccia dike; near Muniesa

078 Rubielos de la Cérida; polymictic breccia dike cutting through Muschelkalk limestones, near Olalla

079 Azuara; breccia dikes in Jurassic limestones, between Muniesa and Ventas de Muniesa

080 Azuara; partly isotropic (diaplectic) quartz, monomict breccia dike, near Muniesa

081 Azuara; diaplectic sandstone fragment in partly recrystallized glass, strongly shocked polymictic dike breccia, Santa Cruz de Nogueras

082 Azuara; heavily kinked biotite in strongly shocked polymictic dike breccia; Santa Cruz de Nogueras

083 Azuara; photomicrograph of microscopic pseudotachylite in sandstone clast, strongly shocked polymictic dike breccia; Santa Cruz de Nogueras

084 Azuara; five sets of planar fractures (PFs) in quartz, photomicrograph, strongly shocked polymictic dike breccia; Santa Cruz de Nogueras

085 Siljan ring; shatter cone

086 Rochechouart; shatter cleavage

087 Vredefort; shatter cone in quartzite

088 Steinheim Basin (Steinheimer Becken); shatter cones

089 Rubielos de la Cérida; kink bands in quartz, photomicrograph, shocked Cretaceous sandstone

090 Azuara; kink bands in muscovite, photomicrograph, shocked sandstone clast, near Muniesa

091 Azuara; partly recrystallized brownish glass, photomicrograph, monomictic dike breccia, near Muniesa

092 Azuara; accretionary lapillus, photomicrograph, basal breccia (suevite), near Muniesa

093 Azuara; accretionary lapilli, photomicrograph, monomict breccia dike, near Muniesa

094 Azuara; opaque bands in oxidized biotite displaying strongly reduced pleochroism, shocked sandstone clast, near Muniesa (090 - 094 by courtesy of Günter Mayer)

095 Rubielos de la Cérida; impact breccia, block in the Barrachina megabreccia

096 Ries; ejected megablock, monomict impact breccia, Iggenhausen quarry

097 Ries; ejected megablock (detail), monomict impact breccia, Iggenhausen quarry

098 Rubielos de la Cérida; polymict impact breccia, inside the crater, near Barrachina

099 Ries; Bunte breccia ejecta, Ronheim quarry

100 Ries; Bunte breccia ejecta, Ronheim quarry

101 Ries; Bunte breccia ejecta, Ronheim quarry

102 Rubielos de la Cérida, polymict impact breccia, inside the crater, near Barrachina

103 Ries; polymict impact breccia, inside the crater, near Unterwilflingen

104 Rubielos de la Cérida; megaclast in the Barrachina megabreccia

105 Azuara; polymict impact breccia, three breccia generations, near Monforte de Moyuela

106 Azuara; basal breccia (suevite), Monforte de Moyuela

107 Azuara; shocked dike breccia, Santa Cruz de Nogueras

108 Azuara; strongly shocked dike breccia, Santa Cruz de Nogueras

109 Azuara; breccia dikes in Jurassic limestones, Fuendetodos

110 Azuara; breccia pipe injected from below, near Nogueras

111 Azuara; monomict impact breccia showing mortar texture, Monforte de Moyuela

112 Azuara; breccia pocket and dikelets in Liassic limestone, near Belchite

113 Azuara; breccia pocket in Jurassic limestone, near Belchite

114 Rubielos de la Cérida; breccia pocket in Muschelkalk limestone, near Olalla

115 Azuara; breccia pocket in Jurassic limestone; near Ventas de Muniesa

116 Azuara; polymictic impact breccia, Villar de los Navarros

117 Azuara; partly decarbonized/?melted limestone clast, polymictic impact breccia, Villar de los Navarros

118 Rubielos de la Cérida; basal breccia (suevite), southern central uplift

119 Rubielos de la Cérida; impact-induced in situ "conglomeratization" of Jurassic limestone, southern central uplift

120 Ries; so-called Ries belemnites, shock-fractured belemnite rostra from Jurassic shales, Bunte breccia ejecta

121 Rubielos de la Cérida; plastically deformed limestone clast, Puerto Mínguez ejecta

122 Rubielos de la Cérida; "knife over soft butter" deformation of limestone clast, Puerto Mínguez ejecta

123 Rubielos de la Cérida; striae,, mirror polish and penetration marks on limestone clast, Puerto Mínguez ejecta

124 Rubielos de la Cérida; faceted sculpture of limestone clast, Puerto Mínguez ejecta

125 Rubielos de la Cérida; impact melt rock (whitish ribbon, > 90% silicate glass), Barrachina megabreccia

126 Rubielos de la Cérida; impact melt rock, close-up of silicate glass, Barrachina megabreccia

127 Azuara/Rubielos de la Cérida; spallation crater in shocked quartzite cobble from Buntsandstein conglomerate; near La Yunta

128 Azuara/Rubielos de la Cérida; spallation crater in shocked quartzite cobble from Buntsandstein conglomerate; near La Yunta

129 shock experiments on single-crystal quartz spheres (synthetic conglomerates)

130 Azuara/Rubielos de la Cérida; shocked quartzite cobble from Buntsandstein conglomerate; near La Yunta

131 Azuara/Rubielos de la Cérida; spallation fractures in shocked quartzite cobble from Buntsandstein conglomerate; Torre de las Arcas

132 spallation fractures in shocked Armco iron

133 Azuara/Rubielos de la Cérida; fractures and spallation craters in shocked quartzite cobble from Buntsandstein conglomerate; near Molina de Aragon

134 Rubielos de la Cérida structure; diaplectic glass and PDFs in quartz

135 Vredefort; breccia dike (pseudotachylite) within breccia dike

136 Steinheim; polymict basin breccia

137 Steinheim; subparallel open fractures in a chert nodule, Malmian limestone in the Galgenberg megablock

138 Mien crater; impact melt rock

139 Vredefort; impact melt rock (granophyre)

140 Sääksjärvi; impact melt rock

141 Söderfjärden; lithic impact breccia

142 Lockne; Lockne breccia

143 Dellen; impact melt rock

144 Azuara; impact-induced curved rhomboid jointing in Jurassic limestones, near Moneva

145 Ries; platy jointing in Malmian limestone, crater rim, Gosheim quarry

146 Rubielos de la Cérida; platy jointing in Cretaceous limestone

147 Rochechouart; breccia dike, Laurière

148 Rochechouart; breccia dike, Laurière

149 Rubielos de la Cérida; breccia dike in Jurassic limestone, Torrecilla

150 Rubielos de la Cérida; breccia dike in Jurassic limestone, between Bañón and Lidón

151 Rubielos de la Cérida; breccia dikes in Paleozoic siltstones; near Olalla

152 Azuara; breccia dike cutting through chert nodule, Liassic limestone, near Belchite

153 Rubielos de la Cérida; breccia dike (crystallized carbonate melt?) cutting through Jurassic limestone, crater rim near Ojos Negros

154 Azuara; breccia dikes cutting through strongly brecciated Jurassic limestones, near Moyuela

155 Rubielos de la Cérida; breccia dikes cutting through Lower Tertiary conglomerates, south of the central uplift

156 Rubielos de la Cérida; Puerto Mínguez impact ejecta, top of the pass between Caminreal and Montalbán

157 Rubielos de la Cérida; Puerto Mínguez impact ejecta, top of the pass between Caminreal and Montalbán

158 Rubielos de la Cérida; large fault plane in the Barrachina megabreccia

159 Rubielos de la Cérida; polished face in Muschelkalk megabreccia, southern central uplift

160 Rubielos de la Cérida; superfault (Spray, J.G. (1997) Superfaults. Geology 25, 305-308) displaying distinct mirror polish, central uplift, near Rubielos de la Cérida

161 Rubielos de la Cérida; megabreccia, Jurassic limestones, southern central uplift, between Monreal del Campo and Bueña

162 Rubielos de la Cérida; kinkbands in muscovite, photomicrograph, Buntsandstein sandstone, near Singra

163 Azuara; Virgen de Herrera, crater rim zone, sunset