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Спутниковая фотография кратера из Google Earth.

Image of a ballen-textured quartz in plane polarized light from Dhala impact structure. cm.

Обзор статей (в том числе, из РЖ ВИНИТИ "Геология и геофизика"):

Данные по параметрам колец шаровой структуры кварца из пород ударного кратера Дхала размером 15 км, Индия. Средний размер колец структуры кварца из этого кратера (49,06 мкм) больше размера колец кварца кратеров Ванапитей, Деллен и Мин (5,06, 9,66 и 29,2 мкм, соответственно). Ширина каждого кольца колеблется в пределах 1,63-6,26 мкм. Предполагается, что шаровая структура в кварце образовалась в точках локального перегрева зерен, подвергнутых ударной деформации
(Pati, Reimold, 2006).

Характеризуются псевдотахилитовые брекчии, установленные в керне скважин на глубине 348-502 м в центре структуры
(Pati et al., 2015)

Subsequent investigations by Pati in 2005 revealed diagnostic microscopic shock metamorphic features, which resulted in the confirmation of Dhala as an impact structure. The structure is biggest in Asia and has a diameter of c.11 km and covers an area of about 64 km2. Unlike Lonar crater, Dhala is supposed to be a complex impact crater. The stratigraphy of the Dhala impact structure starts with a fractured granitoids, which forms the basement with a 12.36 m thick suevite horizon occurring within the fractured basement. Over the fractured granitoids lies a c.65m thick layer of impact melt breccia. It comprises quartz, feldspar, zircon, and some opaque mineral clasts with partially to completely melted granitoid and highly vesiculated melt clasts embedded in a very fine-grained matrix of mainly quartz and feldspar. A 1.8 m thick layer of altered suevite occurs above the impact melt breccia.
(Agarwal, 2022).