Meteorites and possible meteorite impact features in Kansas

Meteorites from the Lut Desert (Iran)

“…; Hofmann et al. ), central (Rubin and Read ; Merriam and Harbaugh ) and southwestern United States (Zolensky et al. ; Rubin et al.…”

“…Besides Antarctica (Harvey 2003), hot deserts are suitable places for the preservation, the accumulation, and the subsequent recovery of meteorites. High numbers of meteorites have been collected and studied from arid regions such as Atacama (Muñoz et al 2007;Gattacceca et al 2011;Hutzler et al 2016), Sahara (Bischoff and Geiger 1995;Schl€ uter et al 2002;Ouazaa et al 2009), Australian deserts (Bevan and Binns 1989;Bevan 1992;Benedix et al 1999), Arabian Peninsula (Al-Kathiri et al 2005;Gnos et al 2009;Hezel et al 2011;Hofmann et al 2018), central (Rubin and Read 1984;Merriam and Harbaugh 2007) and southwestern United States (Zolensky et al 1990;Rubin et al 2000;Kring et al 2001;Hutson et al 2013), and Xinjiang Province in China (Li et al 2017;Zeng et al 2018). Finding new meteorite dense collection areas (DCAs) is important for (1) discovering new types of meteorites (e.g., Bischoff 2001;Kent et al 2017;Pourkhorsandi et al 2017a), (2) providing more samples for statistical works on the meteorite flux (e.g., Bland et al 1996), (3) studying meteorite fall process by mapping strewnfields resulting from meteorite showers (e.g., Kring et al 2001;Gnos et al 2009), and (4) studying the alteration of extraterrestrial material in the terrestrial environment (Bland et al 2006;Saunier et al 2010;Uehara et al 2012;Zurfluh et al 2016;Pourkhorsandi et al 2017b) also in relation with paleoclimate (Bland et al 1998;…”