Kring D.A. Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona (a.k.a. Meteor Crater). Second edition

Meteoritical Society, 2017. — 272 p.
The geological guidebook that follows has been prepared for the occasion of the 80th Annual
Meeting of The Meteoritical Society in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a Society field trip to the crater. The
guidebook is an expanded version of the first edition, which was prepared for the 70th Annual Meeting of
The Meteoritical Society in Tucson, Arizona. While both guidebooks provide a trail-oriented geological
tour of the crater, they are also designed to introduce readers to the geological processes that shaped the
crater.
The geological processes involved in the formation of the crater have been broken down into a
series of discrete topics. The goal is to illustrate how our understanding of those topics has evolved over
the past 100+ years of study at the crater and how observations at the crater have influenced them. While
our understanding of the processes involved in the crater’s formation have grown, there are also a great
number of topics that still need further research. In each section of the guidebook, I try to identify those
unresolved issues with the hope that those comments will spawn new studies.