Obolon' crater
Template:Short description Template:Infobox terrestrial impact site Obolon' crater (Template:Langx) is a Script error: No such module "convert". diameter buried meteorite impact crater situated about Script error: No such module "convert". southeast of Kyiv in Ukraine (Poltava Oblast).[1][2] The site has been drilled, which revealed the presence of shocked minerals and impact melt rock; the high chlorine content of the latter suggesting that the area was covered by shallow sea at the time of impact.[3] One estimate puts the age at 169 ± 7 million years (Middle Jurassic).[4]
Hypothetical multiple impact event
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References
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- ↑ Gurov E.P., Gurova E.P. (1995). "Impact melt composition of the Obolon crater: chlorine as a possible indicator of the submarine crater formation". Meteoritics, v. 30, p 515. Abstract
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- ↑ Spray, J.G., Kelley, S.P. and Rowley, D.B. (1998). "Evidence for a late Triassic multiple impact event on Earth". Nature, v. 392, pp. 171–173. Abstract
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