- Abbott, D.H., A. Matzen, E.A. Bryant, and S.F. Pekar (2003). Did a
bolide impact cause catastrophic tsunamis in Australia and New Zealand?.
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 35:168
- Abbott, Dallas H. , Martos, Suzanne, Elkinton, Hannah, Bryant,
Edward F., Gusiakov, Viacheslav, and Breger, Dee (2006). Impact craters
as sources of megatsunami generated chevron dunes. 2006 Philadelphia
Annual Meeting (22-25 October 2006)
- Monika Kumlehn de Mamani & Ingrid Grambow IMPAKTNAMEN: Namen der [Meteorite; Impakte/Krater; Boliden/Fireballs; Tektite] im Sonnensystem.(2010)
Спутниковая фотография района кратера из Google Earth.
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Геодинамический глобус: LMA района между Антарктидой (кратер Земля Уилкса) и Новой Зеландией (кратер Махуика-Mahuika)
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Обзор статей:
Goff attributes coastal abandonment in New Zealand at 1500 A.D. to an
earthquake-induced tsunami event. However, the largest historical
earthquakes produced maximum tsunami runups of 40 to 60 meters. On
Stewart Island, New Zealand, beach sand is present ~220 meters above sea
level at Hellfire Hut and ~150 meters above sea level at Mason Bay. In
eastern Australia, there are mega tsunami deposits with maximum run-ups
of over 130 meters and a C-14 age of ~1500 A.D. Megatsunami deposits
occur on the eastern side of Lord Howe Island in the middle of the
Tasman Sea, implying a source crater for the tsunami further east. We
named this source crater Mahuika for the Maori god of fire. Mahuika
crater is 20-+2 km wide and >153 meters deep. It is on the New
Zealand continental shelf at 48.3 S, 166.4E. Several pieces of evidence
point to Mahuika as the source crater for the 1500 A.D. event. The first
is that the crater lies on a great circle path from Australia oriented
at about a 45-degree angle to the general trend of the eastern Australia
coast. Mega tsunami deposits near Wollongong and at Jervis Bay,
Australia suggest a tsunami wave oriented at this angle to the coast.
The second is the sub bottom depth of the impact deposits. We have found
impact ejecta in all of the dredges near the crater. Because marine
sediments are deposited at a rate of about 1 cm per thousand years, this
is expected if the impact deposit is only 500 years old. We are seeking
C-14 dates to confirm this. The third is the distribution of tektites,
which are found on the opposite side of the crater from the direction of
impactor arrival. Although we found impact ejecta in many samples, only
some samples contained tektites. All tektite-bearing samples are
located SE of the crater, in the opposite direction from SE Australia,
where the impact fireball was seen by the aborigines.
(Abbott, D.H., A. Matzen, E.A. Bryant, and S.F. Pekar, 2003).
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