Dobele crater
Impact crater in Latvia
56°35′N 23°15′E / 56.583°N 23.250°E / 56.583; 23.250
LatviaDobele crater is an impact crater in central Latvia. The town of Dobele is built over the site of the crater.[1]
It is 4.5 km (2.8 mi) in diameter and the age is estimated to be 290 ± 35 million years (Cisuralian epoch of the Permian period). The impact structure is buried and is not visible.
References
- ^ "Dobele". Earth Impact Database.
Further reading
- A. Abels. J. Plado Lehtinen. 2002 The Impact Cratering Record of Fennoscandia - A Close Look at the DatabaseSpringer, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany (DEU)
External links
- Masaitis, V.L. 1999 Impact structures of northeastern Eurasia: the territories of Russia and adjacent countries, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, v. 34, p. 691-711
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