Luizi crater
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Luizi is a meteorite impact structure that lies on the Kundelungu Plateau of Haut-Katanga province, in an underexplored region of southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1] The crater, ~17 kilometer in diameter, is visible from satellite imagery, and has been confirmed in 2011 by Ferrière et al.[2] as being caused by a large impact event. This complex meteorite impact crater is so far the only recognized one in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and even in the whole Central Africa.[3]
The crater was initially described as a semi-circular basin by German geologist E. Grosse in 1919.[4]
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See also
- Luapula River
References
- ^ "Luizi". Earth Impact Database. Planetary and Space Science Centre University of New Brunswick Fredericton. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
- ^ Ferrière, Ludovic; Lubala, François R.T.; Osinski, Gordon R.; Kaseti, Pierre K. (2011). "The newly confirmed Luizi impact structure, Democratic Republic of Congo—Insights into central uplift formation and post-impact erosion". Geology. 39 (9): 851–854. Bibcode:2011Geo....39..851F. doi:10.1130/G31990.1.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-11-11. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ E. Grosse, 1919. Grundlinien der Geologie und Petrographie des östlichen Katanga. Neues Jahrbuch Mineralogie, Geologie and Paläontologie, 42, 272–419. Google Book
10°10′00″S 28°00′00″E / 10.16667°S 28.00000°E / -10.16667; 28.00000
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