Rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impactThis page shows close-up photos of rocks generated or altered by the asteroid impact and other phenomena related to the cratering event. | |||
 Suevite, building material of Nördlingen's spire. Melt structures and vesicles in the dark fragments. |  Small fragment of jurassic limestone embedded in suevite. Image about 4cm wide. |  Small piece of granite within suevite, from the cristalline basement rock. Image about 4cm wide |  Reddish weathering of a metamorphic inclusion in the suevite. Image about 4cm wide |
 Suevite (light colour, centre) and "Bunte Breckzie" (reddish, right) in the quarry of Aumühle. |  Poppies apparently grow very well on suevite...; quarry of Aumühle. |  Jurassic limestone, shattered by the impact (below) and darker "Bunte Breckzie"; quarry near Ronheim. |  Variegated fragments of the "Bunte Breckzie"; quarry near Ronheim. |
 "Bunte Breckzie": details |  Scratch marks on limestone, caused by sliding of ejected material; quarry near Ronheim. |  Sometimes scratch marks intersect, showing variations of movemnt of the ejected material. |  So called "shatter cone" in jurassic limestone; Meteorkratermuseum Steinheimer Becken. |
 So called "Ries Belemnites": these fossils were fractured by the impact event. |  Ries belemnite in strongly fractured limestone; Meteorkratermuseum Steinheimer Becken. |  Moldavite from southern Bohemia. length 4cm. |  Same piece of moldavite, from the other side. |
| Fotos J. Alean | |||