Omeonga
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Omeonga is a town in the Sankuru province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It lies around Script error: No such module "convert". south southeast of the nearest large town, Katako-Kombe. The Lomami river also passes nearby.
Chiefs or possessors of the name Omeonga are considered noble. It is also a name meaning "Man of Pillars" or "Noble".Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Impact structure
The town lies near the center of a 30 km diameter depression, which is a proposed but unconfirmed ancient impact structure called the "Wembo-Nyama ring structure".[1][2][3] The roundness of the ring is underlined by a tributary of the Lomami river.[4] A similar visual effect can be seen with Manicouagan impact structure in central Quebec, Canada, where a ring of water surrounds the central René-Levasseur Island.
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References
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- ↑ The Full Catalogue of the Earth's Impact structures Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Siberian Center For Global Catastrophes. Department of Mathematical Problems of Geophysics, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics. Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences.
- ↑ E. Martellato; G. Cremonese; M. Massironi; and G. Monegato (2010). Omeonga (Wembo-Nyama): Isale Hydrocode Simulations, Nördlingen Ries Crater Workshop
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