The Vredefort impact structure is one of the largest impact structures on Earth. The crater, which has since been eroded away, has been estimated at 170–300...
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An impact structure is a generally circular or craterlike geologic structure of deformed bedrock or sediment produced by impact on a planetary surface...
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of impact structures (including impact craters) on Earth contains the majority of the 194+ confirmed impact structures given in the Earth Impact Database...
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Chicxulub crater (redirect from Chicxulub impact structure)
depth. It is one of the largest impact structures on Earth, alongside the much older Sudbury and Vredefort impact structures, and the only one whose peak...
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Shoemaker (formerly known as Teague Ring) is an impact structure, the deeply eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in arid central Western Australia...
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Popigai impact structure is the eroded remnant of an impact crater in northern Siberia, Russia. It is tied with the Acraman impact structure as the fourth...
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The Yarrabubba impact structure is the eroded remnant of an impact crater, situated in the northern Yilgarn craton near Yarrabubba Station between the...
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Rochechouart impact structure or Rochechouart astrobleme is an impact structure in France. Erosion has over the millions of years mostly destroyed its impact crater...
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Acraman impact structure is a deeply eroded impact crater in the Gawler Ranges of South Australia. Its location is marked by Lake Acraman, a circular ephemeral...
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The Antarctic Creek impact structure is an impact structure in the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia. With an age of around 3.47 billion years dating...
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Tookoonooka is a large meteorite impact structure (astrobleme) situated in South West Queensland, Australia. It lies deeply buried within Mesozoic sedimentary...
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(1996). "Gosses Bluff—a latest Jurassic impact structure, central Australia. Part 1: geological structure, stratigraphy, and origin". AGSO Journal of...
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Carswell is an impact structure within the Athabasca Basin of the Canadian Shield in northern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is 39 kilometres (24 mi) in diameter...
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structures that are not listed on the Earth Impact Database list of confirmed impact structures. For confirmed impact structures, see List of impact structures...
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The Manson impact structure is an impact structure near the city of Manson, Iowa where an asteroid or comet nucleus struck the Earth during the Cretaceous...
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Saint Martin is an impact structure in Manitoba, Canada. It is located in the northern part of the Rural Municipality of Grahamdale, northwest of Lake...
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Woodleigh is a large meteorite impact structure (astrobleme) in Western Australia, centred on Woodleigh Station east of Shark Bay in the Gascoyne region...
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the structure was done in the 1990s. A study of the formation of the structure by Matton, et al. (2005, 2008) concluded it was not an impact structure. Further...
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Charlevoix impact structure is a large eroded meteorite impact structure in the Charlevoix region of Quebec, Canada. Only part of the impact structure is exposed...
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The Dhala impact structure (N25°17'59.7" and E78°8'3.1") is an impact structure formed by an asteroid impact. It is situated near Bhonti village in Pichhore...
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The Beaverhead impact structure is the second-largest impact structure within the U.S. It lies within the states of Idaho and Montana. Estimated at 60...
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United States portal Toms Canyon structure probable impact crater 322 km (200 mi) to the northeast. Popigai impact structure of similar age Grande Coupure...
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The Hiawatha impact structure is a probable impact structure discovered beneath the Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland, from which it gets its name...
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(secondary coordinates) This List of impact structures in Antarctica includes only unconfirmed and theoretical impact sites in Antarctica and the surrounding...
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The Morokweng impact structure is an impact structure buried beneath the Kalahari Desert near the town of Morokweng in South Africa's North West province...
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Steen River is an impact structure in Alberta, Canada. It is 25 km (16 mi) in diameter and the age is estimated to be 91 ± 7 million years (Late Cretaceous)...
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coordinates) This list of impact structures in Africa includes all 20 confirmed impact craters as listed in the Earth Impact Database. These features were...
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Manicouagan Reservoir (redirect from Manicouagan impact structure)
highest point is Mount Babel. The structure was created 214 (±1) million years ago, in the Late Triassic, by the impact of a meteorite 5 km (3 mi) in diameter...
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includes all 27 confirmed impact structures in Australia as listed in the Earth Impact Database. The following structures are officially considered "unconfirmed"...
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topography, the terms impact structure or astrobleme are more commonly used. In early literature, before the significance of impact cratering was widely...
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