Enhancement of impact heating in pressure-strengthened rocks in oblique impacts
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Accepted version
OA Location
Author(s)
Wakita, S
Genda, H
Kurosawa, K
Davison, TM
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Shock‐induced metamorphism in meteorites informs us about the collisional environment and history of our solar system. Recently, the importance of material strength in impact heating was reported from head‐on impact simulations. Here, we perform three‐dimensional oblique impact simulations and confirm the additional heating due to material strength for oblique impacts. Despite a large difference in the peak pressure at the impact point at a given impact velocity, we find that the heated mass for an oblique impact is nearly the same as that for a head‐on impact. Thus, our results differ from the previous finding that the heated mass decreases as the impact becomes more oblique and show that the additional shear heating is more effective for oblique impacts than for head‐on impacts. This also indicates that material ejected during oblique impact tends to experience lower shock pressures but higher temperatures.
Date Issued
2019-12-16
Date Acceptance
2019-11-30
Citation
Geophysical Research Letters, 2019, 46 (23), pp.13678-13686
ISSN
0094-8276
Publisher
American Geophysical Union
Start Page
13678
End Page
13686
Journal / Book Title
Geophysical Research Letters
Volume
46
Issue
23
Copyright Statement
©2019. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. This is the accepted version of the following article: Wakita, S., Genda, H., Kurosawa, K., & Davison, T. M. ( 2019). Enhancement of impact heating in pressure‐strengthened rocks in oblique impacts. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 13678– 13686, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085174
Sponsor
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Identifier
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Grant Number
ST/S000615/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Geology
impact heating
numerical modeling
oblique impacts
asteroids
meteorites
SHOCK METAMORPHISM
HYPERVELOCITY IMPACTS
DEFORMATION
ORIGIN
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-12-04