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  • Baratoux, D. and Melosh, H.J., 2003. The formation of shatter cones by shockwave interference during impacting. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 216, pp. 43-54.
  • Bisschoff, A.A., 1988. The history and origin of the Vredefort Dome. Transactions, Geological Society of South Africa, 85, pp. 43-57.
  • Bisschoff, A.A., 1996. Note on the relative ages of the pseudotachylite and the basic granophyre in the Vredefort Dome. South African Journal of Geology, 99, pp. 89-92.
  • Bisschoff, A.A., 2000. The Geology of the Vredefort Dome (Explanation of Geological Sheets 2627CA, CB, CC, CD, DA, DC, and 2727AA, AB, BA, 1:50 000-scale). Council for Geoscience, Pretoria, 49 pp. and map, 1:50 000-scale.
  • French, B.M., 1998. Traces of Catastrophe. Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, 120 pp.
  • Gibson, R.L. and Reimold, W.U., 2008. Geology of the Vredefort Impact Structure; a guide to sites of interest. Memoir, Council for Geoscience, Pretoria, 97, 181 pp.
  • Gibson, R.L. and Wallmach, T., 1995. Low pressure-high temperature metamorphism in the Vredefort Dome, South Africa: anticlockwise pressure-temperature path followed by rapid decompression. Geological Journal, 30, pp. 319-331.
  • Hartnady, C.J.H., 2009. South Africa’s gold production and reserves. South African Journal of Science, 105, pp. 328-329.
  • Ivanov, B.A., 2005. Numerical modeling of large terrestrial meteorite craters. Solar System Research, 39, pp. 381-409.
  • Kamo, S.L., Reimold, W.U., Krogh T.E. and Colliston W.P., 1996. A 2.023 Ga age for the Vredefort impact event and a first report of shock metamorphosed zircons in pseudotachylitic breccias and Granophyre. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 144, pp. 369-387.
  • Koeberl, C., Reimold, W.U. and Shirey, S.B., 1996. A Re-Os isotope study of the Vredefort Granophyre: Clues to the origin of the Vredefort Structure, South Africa. Geology, 24, pp. 913-916.
  • Lieger, D., Riller, U., Reimold, W.U. and Gibson, R.L., 2007. Importance of pseudotachylitic breccia zones for understanding the formation of central uplift structures: Field evidence from the Vredefort Dome, South Africa. Abstract, Bridging the Gap, II: Effect of target properties in the impact cratering process. Abstract Volume, Lunar and Planetary Institute Contributions, Montreal, Canada, 1360, 66 pp.
  • Nicolaysen, L.O. and Reimold, W.U., 1999. Vredefort shatter cones revisited. Journal of Geophysical Research, Witwaterrand University, Johannesburg, 8 pp.
  • Reimold, W.U. and Gibson, R.L., 2005b. 'Pseudotachylites' in large impact structures. In: Impact Tectonics (C. Koeberl and H. Henkel, eds.), Impact Studies, Springer, Heidelberg, 6, pp. 1-35.
  • Reimold, W.U., Gibson, R.L., 2006. The melt rocks of the Vredefort Impact Structure - Vredefort Granophyre and pseudotachylitic breccias: Implications for impact cratering and the evolution of the Witwatersrand basin. Chemie der Erde, 66, pp. 1-35.
  • Reimold, W.U., Horsch, M. and Durrheim, R.J., 1990. The 'Bronzite'-Granophyre from the Vredefort Structure - a detailed analytical study and refelctions on the origin of one of Vredeort's enigmas. Proceedings of the 20th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, pp. 433-450.
  • Sagy, A., Reches, Z. and Fineberg, J., 2002. Dynamic fractures by large extraterrestrial impacts as the origin of shatter cones. Nature, 418, pp. 310-313.
  • Sagy, A., Reches, Z. and Fineberg, J., 2004. Shatter cones: Branched fractures formed by shock impact. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, p. B10209.
  • Graham, I.T., De Waal, S.A., Armstrong, R.A., 2005. New U-PbSHRIMP zircon age for the Schurwedraal alkali granite: Implications for pre-impact development of the Vredefort Dome and extent of Bushveld magmatism, South Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 43, pp. 537-548.
  • Wieland, F., Gibson, R.L. and Reimold, W.U., 2005. Structural analysis of the collar of the Vredefort dome, South Africa - significance for impact-related deformation and central uplift formation. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 40, pp. 1537-1554.
  • Wieland, F., Reimold, W.U. and Gibson, R.L., 2006. New observations on shatter cones in the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa, and evaluation of current hypotheses for shatter cone formation. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 41, pp. 1737-1759.