Shoemaker impact structure

Shoemaker (formerly known as Teague Ring) is an impact structure, the deeply eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in arid central Western Australia, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north-northeast of Wiluna.

[2] The prominent ring-like topographic feature, easily seen in satellite images, lies on the boundary between the Palaeoproterozoic Earaheedy Basin and the Archaean Yilgarn Craton.

[3] Subsequent research revealed definitive evidence for this hypothesis, including the presence of shatter cones and shocked quartz.

[4][5][6] The feature has a central circular region of uplifted Archaean Granite (Teague Granite) about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) in diameter, surrounded by a downwarped ring (ring syncline) of sedimentary rocks with an outer limit of disturbance at about 30 kilometres (19 mi) diameter, which is a minimum estimate of the size of the original crater.

It must be younger than the Teague Granite in the centre, dated at 2648 ± 8 Ma (million years ago).

The Shoemaker impact site