Impact Crater Serra da Cangalha

Geology of the impact crater Serra da Cangalha, University of Campina, Brasil

Annular central mountain of the Serra da Cangalha crater.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kenkmann

Term: seit 2009

Coorperation partners:

Prof. Dr. Uwe Reimold, Berlin Museum of Natural History

Prof. Dr. Alvaro Crosta (University of Campinas)

Marcos Vasconcelos (University of Campinas)

Abstract:

Serra da Cangalha is a complex impact crater of 14 km diameter in the north-east of Brasil in the Province Tocantins. In 2009 and 2010 field examinations of the rather inaccessible structure took place, which focused on reconstructing the genesis of the structure and defining its age. The actual analysis of the structure is based on the interpretation of the data of texture and remote sensing. A geophysical survey is being arranged.

Publications

VASCONCELOS, M. A. R., GÓES, A. M., CRÓSTA, A. P., KENKMANN, T. and REIMOLD W. U. (2010). Serra da Cangalha impact structure, Parnaíba basin, northeastern Brazil: target characterization and stratigraphic estimates of the uplift. 41th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 1-5. 2010, Houston, TX, USA, CD-Rom #.

KENKMANN, T., VASCONCELOS, M., CROSTA, A. P. AND REIMOLD, W. U. (2010). Serra da Cangalha, Tocantins, Brazil: insights into the structural of a complex impact crater with an overturned central uplift. 41th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 1-5. 2010, Houston, TX, USA, CD-Rom #1237.