Abstract
Goat Paddock, a crater slightly over 5 km in diameter (18°20′ S, 126°40′E), lies at the north edge of the King Leopold Range/Mueller Range junction in the Kimberley district, Western Australia (Fig. 1). It was noted as a geological anomaly in 1964 during regional mapping by the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics and the Geological Survey of Western Australia. The possibility of its being a meteorite impact crater has been discussed1, although this suggestion was subsequently ignored2. Two holes were drilled by a mining corporation in 1972 to test whether kimberlite underlay the structure. Here we report the findings of five days of reconnaissance in August 1979 which established that Goat Paddock is a cryptoexplosion crater containing shocked rocks and an unusually well exposed set of structural features.
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Harms, J., Milton, D., Ferguson, J. et al. Goat Paddock cryptoexplosion crater, Western Australia. Nature 286, 704–706 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/286704a0
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