Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impactThis page shows close-up photos of rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact and other phenomena related to the cratering event. |
![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/suevit.jpg) Suevite, building material of Nördlingen's spire. Melt structures and vesicles in the dark fragments. | ![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/suevit-kalk.jpg) Small fragment of jurassic limestone embedded in suevite. Image about 4cm wide. | ![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/suevit-granit.jpg) Small piece of granite within suevite, from the cristalline basement rock. Image about 4cm wide | ![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/suevit-metamorph.jpg) Reddish weathering of a metamorphic inclusion in the suevite. Image about 4cm wide |
![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/suevit-bunte-breckzie.jpg) Suevite (light colour, centre) and "Bunte Breckzie" (reddish, right) in the quarry of Aumühle. | ![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/mohn.jpg) Poppies apparently grow very well on suevite...; quarry of Aumühle. | ![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/steinbruch.jpg) Jurassic limestone, shattered by the impact (below) and darker "Bunte Breckzie"; quarry near Ronheim. | ![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/bunte-breckzie.jpg) Variegated fragments of the "Bunte Breckzie"; quarry near Ronheim. |
![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/bunte-breckzie-detail.jpg) "Bunte Breckzie": details | ![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/schliffe-1.jpg) Scratch marks on limestone, caused by sliding of ejected material; quarry near Ronheim. | ![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/schliffe-2.jpg) Sometimes scratch marks intersect, showing variations of movemnt of the ejected material. | ![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/shatter-cone.jpg) So called "shatter cone" in jurassic limestone; Meteorkratermuseum Steinheimer Becken. |
![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/belemniten.jpg) So called "Ries Belemnites": these fossils were fractured by the impact event. | ![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/belemnit-kalk.jpg) Ries belemnite in strongly fractured limestone; Meteorkratermuseum Steinheimer Becken. | ![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/moldavit-2.jpg) Moldavite from southern Bohemia. length 4cm. | ![Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact](gesteine/icons/moldavit-1.jpg) Same piece of moldavite, from the other side. |
Fotos J. Alean |