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Impact Sites - References (R-Z)
Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin -
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Notes
In organizing the list here, I have followed the following principles:
* I have tried to find comprehensive, easily available references
wherever possible.
* /Some/ documentation is better than /no/ documentation; if there's
no easily available reference, I listed whatever seemed to be the
best documentation available. I've tried to use sources widely
available in the U.S., but if the best source is Australian,
Finnish or Russian, that's what is listed.
* I used non-English references only when there did not seem to be
any good references in English.
* On the other hand, some places like Sudbury have staggeringly
large bodies of literature. This list does not attempt to be
comprehensive.
* I listed only references that seemed likely to lead to additional
sources. For this reason, abstracts were not cited. All an
abstract will tell you is that somebody believes a site is an
impact crater, and you already know that from seeing it listed here.
* For some recent additions I do not yet have geographic and age data.
*Where do I find this stuff?* Public libraries almost never will have
any of these references. Most colleges and universities that have a
geology program will carry /Geology>/ and other common publications. For
the more obscure publications you may have to try a very large
university or resort to inter-library loan, or in extreme cases write to
the authors or publishers. Welcome to my world.
Unless meteoritic fragments heve been found at a site, almost every
large impact site has been claimed to be of terrestrial rather than
extraterrestrial origin. Even meteorites aren't always enough; for years
some geologists argued that Meteor Crater was a volcanic crater and the
meteorites nearby were just a coincidence. See the references for
Upheaval Dome for both sides of an ongoing controversy. Some early
references date from before the recognition of certain sites as impact
craters, and though the geology may be described accurately, it may not
always be interpreted in terms of impact.
No two lists of sites are exactly alike. Meteorite fragments are
conclusive but found only at small, recent craters. Shock metamorphism,
especially high-pressure minerals like diamond or coesite, and shatter
cones are widely regarded as conclusive. Structural disturbance of the
rocks, circularity, and so on are suggestive but not conclusive. Sites
reported as impact sites in reputable current scientific literature are
included, but some might be controversial and could eventually turn out
not to be of impact origin (again, see Upheaval Dome). Older lists
should be taken with a grain of salt since they were compiled when our
understanding of impact was a lot less and can include sites no longer
considered to be impact sites.
Foreign names are often rendered in different ways and a few entries
have different spellings that may or may not refer to two different sites.
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*Ragozinka* Russia
Lat. 58.30; Long: 62.00; Diam. (km): 9 Age (My): 55 +/- 5
Lagutenko, V. N.; Kazachikhin, V. A.; Kogan, Ye. M.; Sukhozhak, R.
P. ; The Rogozinskiy Astrobleme in the Middle Urals; International
Geology Review, v. 28n. 6, p. 647-650, 1986
*Red Wing Creek* North
Dakota, USA
Lat. 47.60; Long: -103.55; Diam. (km): 9; Age (My): 200 +/- 25
*Parson, Elmer S.; Henderson, Gordon W.; Conti, Louis J. *; Red Wing
Creek Field; field; cosmic impact structure; American Association of
Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, OK, United States; AAPG Bulletin, v.
59n. 11 Part 1, , p. 2197, AAPG distinguished lecturers; 1975
*Riachao
Ring *Maranhao, Brazil
Lat. -7.72; Long: -46.65; Diam. (km): 4.5; Age (My): 200 +/-
*McHone, J. F.*; Riachao Ring, Brazil; a possible meteorite crater
discovered by the Apollo astronauts in : El-Baz, Farouk; Warner, D.
M. (editors), Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, summary science report;
Volume II, Earth observations and photography, National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA), Special Publication, n. SP-412, p.
193-202
*Ries *Bavaria, Germany
Lat. 48.88; Long: 10.62; Diam. (km): 24; Age (My): 14.8 +/- 1
*E. M. Shoemaker and E. C. T. Chao,* 1961; New evidence for the
impact origin of the Ries Basin, Bavaria, Germany, JGR v. 66, p.
3371-3378.
*Horn, Peter *; The Ries Kessel, Germany; An Example of Meteorite
Impact as a Terrestrial Geological Process; Geoforum, v. 12, p.
91-95; 1972
*Dennis, John G. *; Ries structure, southern Germany, a review;
Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 76n. 23, p. 5394-5406; 1971 *Rio
Cuarto *Argentina
Lat. -30.87; Long: -64.23; Diam. (km): 4.5; Age (My): 0.1 +/-
*Schultz, Peter H.; Koeberl, Christian; Bunch, Theodore; Grant,
John; Collins, William*; Ground truth for oblique impact processes;
new insight from the Rio Cuarto, Argentina, crater field, Geology
(Boulder), v. 22n. 10, p. 889-892, 1994 *Rochechouart *France
Lat. 45.83; Long: 0.93; Diam. (km): 23 Age (My): 186 +/- 8
*Kraut, Francois; French, Bevan M.* ; The Rochechouart meteorite
impact structure, France; preliminary geological results; Journal of
Geophysical Research, v. 76n. 23, p. 5407-5413; 1971
*Kraut, Francois; French, Bevan M.* ; The Rochechouart impact
structure, France; Meteoritics, v. 5n. 4, p. 206-207; 1970
*Roter Kamm
*Namibia
Lat. -27.77; Long: 16.30; Diam. (km): 2.5; Age (My): 5 +/- 0.3
*Brandt, Dion; Reimold, Wolf Uwe; Franzsen, Alan J.; Koeberl,
Christian; Wendorff, Lutz *; Geophysical profile of the Roter Kamm
impact crater, Namibia; Meteoritics & Planetary Science, v. 33n. 3,
p. 447-453; 1998
*Fudali, R. F.* ; Roter Kamm; evidence for an impact origin;
Meteoritics, v. 8n. 3, p. 245-257; 1973 *Rotmistrovka *Ukraine
Lat. 49.00; Long: 32.00; Diam. (km): 2.7; Age (My): 140 +/- 20
*Raykhlin, A. I.*; Geologiya astroblem SSSR; Mezozoyskiye
astroblemy; Rotmistrovskaya astroblema (The geology of astroblemes
in the USSR; Mesozoic astroblemes; the Rotmistrovskaya astrobleme)
in: Masaytis, V. L.; Danilin, A. N.; Mashchak, M. S.; Raykhlin, A.
I.; Selivanovskaya, T. V.; Shadenkov, Ye. M. (editors), Geologiya
astroblem (The geology of astroblemes), Izdatel'stvo Nedra,
Leningrad, USSR p. 76-78, 1980 *Saaksjarvi* Finland
Lat. 61.40; Long: 22.40; Diam. (km): 5 Age (My): 514 +/- 12
*Kinnunen, Kari A.; Lindqvist, Kristian*; Agate as an indicator of
impact structures; an example from Saaksjarvi, Finland, Meteoritics
& Planetary Science, v. 33n. 1, p. 7-12, 1998
*Elo, S.; Kivekas, L.; Kujala, H.; Lahti, S. I.; Pihlaja, P.*;
Recent studies of the Lake Saaksjarvi meteorite impact crater,
southwestern Finland in: Pesonen, L. J.; Henkel, H. (editors),
Terrestrial impact craters and craterform structures with a special
focus on Fennoscandia, Tectonophysics, v. 216n. 1-2, p. 163-167
*Mueller, Norbert; Hartung, Jack B.; Jessberger, Elmar K.; Reimold,
Wolf Uwe*; Ar- 40 Ar-39 ages of Dellen, Janisjarvi, and Saaksjarvi
impact craters; Meteoritics, v. 25n. 1, p. 1-10, 1990 *Saint Martin*
Manitoba, Canada
Lat. 51.78; Long: -98.53 Diam. (km): 40; Age (My): 220 +/- 32
*Coles, R. L.; Clark, J. F.* ; Lake St. Martin impact structure,
Manitoba, Canada; magnetic anomalies and magnetizations; Journal of
Geophysical Research. B, v. 87n. 8, p. 7087-7095, 1982 *Serpent Mound
*Ohio, USA
Lat. 39.03; Long: -83.40; Diam. (km): 6.4; Age (My): 320 +/-
*Carlton, Richard W.; Koeberl, Christian; Baranoski, Mark T.;
Schumacher, Gregory A.*; Discovery of microscopic evidence for shock
metamorphism at the Serpent Mound structure, south-central Ohio;
confirmation of an origin by impact, Earth and Planetary Science
Letters, v. 162n. 1-4, p. 177-185, 1998
*Koucky, Frank L.; Reidel, Stephen P.*; The Serpent Mound
disturbance, south-central Ohio, in: Biggs, Donald L. (editor),
North-central section of the Geological Society of America,
Centennial field guide, v. 3, p. 431-436, 1987 *Serra Da Cangalha* Brazil
Lat. -8.08; Long: -46.87; Diam. (km): 12 Age (My): 300 +/- *Shunak*
Kazakhstan
Lat. 47.20; Long: 72.70; Diam. (km): 3.1 Age (My): 12 +/- 5
*Khryanina, L. P.; Zeylik, B. S.*; Geologicheskoye stroyeniye
kratera Shunak (Pribalkhash'ye) i priznaki meteoritnogo udara v nem
(Geological structure of the Shunak Crater and evidence of meteorite
impact), Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Moscow, USSR, Izvestiya Akademii Nauk
SSSR. Seriya Geologicheskaya, v. 1980n. 3, p. 124-134, 1980
*Fel'dman, V. I.; Granovskiy, L. B.; Dabizha, A. I.*; Meteoritnyy
krater Shunak (The Shunak meteorite crater), in: Marakusheva, A. A.
(editor), Impaktity (Impactites), Izdatel'stvo Moskovskoi
Universiteta, Moscow, USSR, p. 56-69, 1981
*Vasil'yev, I. V.; Klyushkin, V. V.; Panova, L. A.; Tolstikova, N.
V.*; Novyye dannyye po stratigrafii miotsena kol'tsevoy
morfostruktury massiva Shunak (Tsentral'nyy Kazakhstan) (New data on
the Miocene stratigraphy of the ring morphostructure of the Shunak
Massif; central Kazakhstan), Izdatel'stvo Nedra, Moscow, USSR,
Sovetskaya Geologiya, v. 9, p. 68-73, 1980
*Fel'dman, V. I.; Dabizha, A. I.; Granovskiy, L. B.*; Meteoritnyy
krater Shunak (The Shunak meteor crater), Akademiya Nauk SSSR,
Moscow, USSR, Meteoritika, n. 38, p. 99-103, 1979 *Sierra Madera* Texas,
USA
Lat. 30.60; Long: -102.92 Diam. (km): 13; Age (My): 100 +/-
*Howard, Keith A.; Offield, Terry W.; Wilshire, H. G.* ; Structure
of Sierra Madera, Texas, as a Guide to Central Peaks of Lunar
Craters; Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 83n. 9, p.
2795-2808; 1972
*Wilshire, H. G., Offield, T. W., Howard, K. A. and Cummings, D.*,
1972; Geology of the Sierra Madera cryptoexplosion structure, Pecos
County, Texas, USGS PP 599-H, p. H1-42. *Sikhote Alin*Russia
Lat. 46.12; Long: 134.67; Diam. (km):0.027; Age (My): 0 +/- *Siljan* Sweden
Lat. 61.03; Long: 14.87; Diam. (km): 55; Age (My): 368 +/- 1.1
Collini, B. ; Geological setting of the Siljan Ring structure in:
Boden, Anders; Eriksson, K. Goesta (editors); Deep drilling in
crystalline bedrock; Volume 1, The deep gas drilling in the Siljan
impact structure, Sweden and astroblemes, proceedings of the
international symposium, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Federal Republic
of Germany; v. 1, p. 349-354, 1988 *Slate Islands* Ontario, Canada
Lat. 48.67; Long: -87.00 Diam. (km): 30; Age (My): 350 +/-
*Halls, H. C.; Grieve, R. A. F.* ; The Slate Islands; a probable
complex meteorite impact structure in Lake Superior; Canadian
Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 13n. 9, p. 1301-1309; 1976
Sharpton, Virgil L.; Dressler, Burkhard O.; Herrick, Robert R.;
Schnieders, Bernie; Scott, John; New constraints on the Slate
Islands impact structure, Ontario, Canada; Geology (Boulder), v.
24n. 9, p. 851-854, 1996 *Sobolev *Russia
Lat. 46.30; Long: 138.87; Diam. (km):0.053; Age (My): 0 +/-
*Soderfjarden* Finland
Lat. 63.00; Long: 21.58; Diam. (km): 6; Age (My): 550 +/-
*Lehtovaara, J. J.*; Soderfjarden: a Cambrian impact crater in
western Finland.; Tectonophysics., Volume 216, Number 1-2, p.157,
December 30 1992 *Lehtovaara, Jyrki J.; Soderfjarden*; a Cambrian
impact crater in western Finland, in: Pesonen, L. J.; Henkel, H.
(editors), Terrestrial impact craters and craterform structures with
a special focus on Fennoscandia, Tectonophysics, v. 216n. 1-2, p.
157-161, 1992
*Lauren, L.; Lehtovaara, J.; Bostrom, R.*; On the geology of the
circular depression at Soderfjarden, western Finland, Geologian
Tutkimuskeskus, Espoo, Finland, Bulletin - Geological Survey of
Finland, n. 297, p. 5-38, 1978 *Spider *Western Australia, Australia
Lat. -16.73; Long: 126.08; Diam. (km): 13 Age (My): 570 +/- *Steen
River* Alberta, Canada
Lat. 59.52; Long: -117.62 Diam. (km): 25; Age (My): 95 +/- 7
*Wilson, J.; Langenberg, Willem; Jeffries, Lynn; Grieve, Richard;
Berkes, Zoltan*; The Steen River structure, northwestern Alberta,
in: Drury, Malcolm J. (editor), Scientific drilling; sedimentary
basins; proceedings of a workshop, Carleton University, Dept. of
Earth Sciences, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Canadian Continental Drilling
Program Report, , p. 23-24, 1989 *Carrigy, Maurice A.*; Evidence of
shock metamorphism in rocks from the Steen River structure, Alberta,
in: Shock metamorphism of natural materials, 1st Conference,
Greenbelt, Md., 1966, Proceedings, p. 367-374, 1968 *Steinheim
*Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Lat. 48.67; Long: 10.07; Diam. (km): 3.8 Age (My): 14.8 +/- 0.7
*Bahrig, B.; Mensink, H.; Mergelsberg, W.*; Das Steinheimer Becken
(Sueddeutschland); Erlaeuterungen zu einer geologischen Karte 1:10
000 (The Steinheim Basin, southern Germany; explanatory text for a
geologic map), Institut fuer Geologie der Ruhr-Universitt Bochum,
Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany, Bochumer Geologische und
Geotechnicshe Arbeiten, v. 21, p. 1-31, 1986
*Reiff, W.*; The Steinheim Basin; an impact structure in: Roddy, D.
J.; Pepin, R. O.; Merrill, R. B. (editors), Impact and explosion
cratering; planetary and terrestrial implications; Proceedings of
the Symposium on planetary cratering mechanics, Pergamon Press, p.
309-320 *Strangways* Northern Territory, Australia
Lat. -15.20; Long: 133.58; Diam. (km): 25; Age (My): 470 +/-
*Guppy, D. J.; Brett, Robin; Milton, D. J.* ; Liverpool and
Strangways craters, Northern Territory; two structures of probable
impact origin; Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 76n. 23, p.
5387-5393; 1971 *Sudbury* Ontario, Canada
Lat. 46.60; Long: -81.18; Diam. (km): 200; Age (My): 1850 +/- 3
*Dietz, R. S.*, 1964; Sudbury structure as an astrobleme, Journal of
Geology, v. 72, p. 412-434. *Tabun-Khara-Obo *Mongolia
Lat. 44.10; Long: 109.60; Diam. (km): 1.3 Age (My): 3 +/-
*Mashchak, M. S.*; Osnovnyye cherty geologii nekotorykh astroblem
zarubezhnykh stran; Kaynozoyskiye astroblemy i kratery; Krater
Tabun-Khara-Obo (The principal features of the geology of some
astroblemes in foreign countries; Cenozoic astroblemes and craters;
the Tabun-Khara-Obo Crater) in: Masaytis, V. L.; Danilin, A. N.;
Mashchak, M. S.; Raykhlin, A. I.; Selivanovskaya, T. V.; Shadenkov,
Ye. M., Geologiya astroblem (The geology of astroblemes)
Izdatel'stvo Nedra, Leningrad, USSR p. 185-186, 1980 *Takamatsu*
Miura, Yasunori ; Complex formation of Takamatsu Crater by impact,
in: Antarctic meteorites XXI; papers presented to the Twenty-first
symposium on Antarctic meteorites, National Institute of Polar
Research, Tokyo, Japan; Papers Presented to the ... Symposium on
Antarctic Meteorites, v. 21, p. 111-114, 1996 *Talemzane* Algeria
Lat. 33.32; Long: 4.03; Diam. (km): 1.75 Age (My): 3 +/-
McHone, John F.; Greeley, Ronald ; Talemzane; Algerian impact crater
detected on SIR-A orbital imaging radar; Meteoritics, v. 22n. 3, p.
253-264, 1987 *Teague* Western Australia, Australia
Lat. -25.87; Long: 120.88; Diam. (km): 30 Age (My): 1685 +/- 5
*Butler, Hadyn *; The Lake Teague ring structure, Western Australia:
an astrobleme?; Australian and New Zealand Association for the
Advancement of Science (ANZAAS), Sydney, N.S.W., Australia; Search
(Sydney), v. 5n. 10, p. 536; 1974 *Tenoumer* Mauritania
Lat. 22.92; Long: -10.40; Diam. (km): 1.9; Age (My): 2.5 +/- 0.5
Fudali, R. F. ; Genesis of the Melt Rocks at Tenoumer Crater,
Mauritania; Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 79n. 14, p.
2115-2121; 1974 *Ternovka *Ukraine
Lat. 48.02; Long: 33.08; Diam. (km): 12; Age (My): 280 +/- 10
*Bal'ter, A. A.*; Udarnyye deformatsii tal'ka (Ternovskaya
astroblema, Krivoy Rog, Ukraina) (Shock deformation of talc;
Ternovka Astrobleme, Krivoy Rog, Ukraine), Akademiya Nauk Ukrainy,
Kiev, Ukraine, Mineralogicheskiy Zhurnal, v. 14n. 6, p. 75-87, 1992
*Mashchak, M. S.; Orlova, Zh. V.*; Perekristallizovannyy
diaplektovyy kvarts iz Ternovskoy astroblemy (Recrystallized
diaplectic quartz from the Ternovka Astrobleme), Akademiya Nauk
SSSR, Moscow, USSR, Meteoritika, v. 44, p. 164-167, 1985
*Val'ter, A. A.; Ryabenko, V. A.*; Ternovskaya astroblema; Krivoy
Rog (Ternovskaya Astrobleme; Krivoy Rog) in Ryabenko, V. A.
(editor), Geologiya i petrologiya vzryvnykh meteoritnykh kraterov
(The geology and petrology of meteorite craters) Izd. Nauk. Dumka,
Kiev, USSR, p. 193-202 *Tin Bider *Algeria
Lat. 27.60; Long: 5.12; Diam. (km): 6; Age (My): 70 +/- *Toms Canyon
*Offshore New Jersey, USA
*Poag, C. Wylie; Poppe, Lawrence J.* ; The Toms Canyon structure,
New Jersey outer continental shelf; a possible late Eocene impact
crater; Marine Geology, v. 145n. 1-2, p. 23-60; 1998 *Tookoonooka
*Queensland, Australia
Lat. -27.00; Long: 143.00; Diam. (km): 55; Age (My): 128 +/- 5
*Gostin, V. A.; Therriault, A. M*; Tookoonooka, a large buried Early
Cretaceous impact structure in the Eromanga Basin of southwestern
Queensland, Australia, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, v. 32n. 4,
p. 593-599, 1997 *Tunguska *Russia
Diam. (km): air burst - no crater; Age (My): 0
Chaikin, Andrew ; TARGET; Tunguska; Sky and Telescope, v. 67n. 1, p.
18-21, 1984 *Tvaren* Sweden
Lat. 58.77; Long: 17.42; Diam. (km): 2; Age (My): 450 +/-
*Lindstrom, M.; Floden, T.; Grahn, T.; Kathol, B. *; Post-impact
deposits in Tvaren, a marine Middle Ordovician crater south of
Stockholm, Sweden; Geological Magazine, v. 131n. 1, p. 91-103, 1994
*Upheaval Dome* Utah, USA
Lat. 38.43; Long: -109.90 Diam. (km): 5; Age (My): 65 +/-
*Jackson, M. P. A.; Schultz-Ela, D. D.; Hudec, M. R.; Watson, I. A.;
Porter, M. L.*; Structure and evolution of Upheaval Dome; a
pinched-off salt diapir, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.
110n. 12, p. 1547-1573, 1998 *Shoemaker, Eugene M.; Herkenhoff, K.
E.*; Impact origin of Upheaval Dome, Utah in: Holt, Henry E.
(compiler), Reports of Planetary Geology Program; 1983, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),Technical Memorandum, v.
86246, p. 93, 1984 *Ust-Kara *Russia
Lat. 69.30; Long: 65.30; Diam. (km): 25; Age (My): 73 +/- 3
Koeberl, Christian; Sharpton, Virgil L.; Harrison, T. Mark;
Sandwell, David; Murali, A. V.; Burke, Kevin ; The Kara/Ust-Kara
twin impact structure; a large-scale impact event in the Late
Cretaceous in: Sharpton, Virgil L.; Ward, Peter D. (editors); Global
catastrophes in Earth history; an interdisciplinary conference on
impacts, volcanism, and mass mortality, Geological Society of
America Special Paper 247, p. 233-238, 1990
Koeberl, Christian; Sharpton, Virgil L.; Murali, A. V.; Burke, Kevin
; Kara and Ust-Kara impact structures (USSR) and their relevance to
the K/T boundary event; Geology (Boulder), v. 18n. 1, p. 50-53, 1990
*Vargeao Dome *Argentina
Lat. -26.83; Long: -52.12; Diam. (km): 12; Age (My): 70 +/- *Veevers
*Western Australia, Australia
Lat. -22.97; Long: 125.37; Diam. (km): 0.08; Age (My): 1 +/-
*Yeates, A. N.; Crowe, R. W. A.; Towner, R. R.* ; The Veevers
Crater; a possible meteoritic feature; Australian Geological Survey
Organization, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia; BMR Journal of Australian
Geology and Geophysics, v. 1n. 1, p 77-78; 1976 *Vepriaj *Lithuania
Lat. 55.10; Long: 24.60; Diam. (km): 8; Age (My): 160 +/- 30
*Butkovskiy, Yu. M.; Buchanova, S. V.; Kozhemyakina, I. A.*;
Vepryayskaya astroblema (Vepryay Astrobleme), Izvestiya Akademii
Nauk SSSR. Seriya Geologicheskaya, v. 1983 n. 6, p. 120-125, 1983
*Masaytis, V. L.*; Geologiya astroblem SSSR; Mezozoyskiye
astroblemy; Vyapryayskaya astroblema (The geology of astroblemes in
the USSR; Mesozoic astroblemes; the Vyapryayskaya Astrobleme) in:
Masaytis, V. L.; Danilin, A. N.; Mashchak, M. S.; Raykhlin, A. I.;
Selivanovskaya, T. V.; Shadenkov, Ye. M. (editors), Geologiya
astroblem (The geology of astroblemes), Izdatel'stvo Nedra,
Leningrad, USSR, p. 69-72, 1980 *Vredefort *South Africa
Lat. -27.00; Long: 27.50; Diam. (km): 140; Age (My): 1970 +/- 100
*R. A. Daly, *1947; The Vredefort ring-structure of South Africa,
Journal of Geology, v. 55, p. 125-145.
*R. S. Dietz, 1961;* Vredefort Ring Structure: meteorite impact
scar? Journal of Geology, v. 69, p. 499-516.
*Gay, N. C.* ; Spherules on shatter cone surfaces from the Vredefort
Structure, southern, Africa; Science, v. 194n. 4266, p. 724-725; 1976
*Wabar* Saudi Arabia
Lat. 21.50; Long: 50.47; Diam. (km):0.097 Age (My): 0.01 +/-
*E. C. T. Chao, J. J. Fahey, and J. Littler, 1961*; Coesite from
Wabar Crater near Al-Hadida, Saudi Arabia, /Science/, v. 133, p. 882-883
*Jeffrey C. Winn and E. M. Shoemaher*, 1998; The day the sands
caught fire, Scientific American, v. 279, no. 5, p. 65-71. *Wanapitei
Lake *Ontario, Canada
Lat. 46.75; Long: -80.75; Diam. (km): 7.5; Age (My): 37 +/- 2
*Dence, M. R.; Robertson, P. B.; Wirthlin, R. L.* ; Coesite from the
Lake Wanapitei Crater, Ontario; Earth and Planetary Science Letters,
v. 22n. 2, p. 118-122; 1974 *Wells Creek *Tennessee, USA
Lat. 36.38; Long: -87.67 Diam. (km): 14; Age (My): 200 +/- 100
*Stearns, Richard G.; Wilson, Charles W., Jr.; Tiedemann, Herbert
A.; Wilcox, John T.; Marsh, Phyllis S.*; The Wells Creek structure,
Tennessee, in: French, Bevan; Short, Nicholas M. (editors); Shock
metamorphism of natural materials; p. 323-337; 1968 *West Hawk Lake
*Manitoba, Canada
Lat. 49.77; Long: -95.18; Diam. (km): 3.15; Age (My): 100 +/- 50
*Short, N. M.*, 1970; Anatomy of a meteor impact crater, West Hawk
Lake, Manitoba, Canada, GSAB v. 81, p. 609-648. *Wolf Creek *Western
Australia, Australia
Lat. -19.30; Long: 127.77; Diam. (km):0.875; Age (My): 0.3 +/-
*Fudali, R. F. *; Wolf Creek Crater revisited; Journal of Geology,
v. 95n. 1, p. 134-135, 1987
*McCall, Gerald; Joseph Home*; Possible meteorite craters; Wolf
Creek, Australia and analogs, Annals of the New York Academy of
Sciences, v. 123, p. 970-998, 1965 *Zapadnaya *Ukraine
Lat. 49.73; Long: 29.00; Diam. (km): 4; Age (My): 115 +/- 10 *Zeleny Gai
*Ukraine
Lat. 48.70; Long: 32.90; Diam. (km): 2.5; Age (My): 120 +/- 20
*Val'ter, A. A.; Bryanskiy, V. P.; Ryabenko, V. A.; Lazarenko, Ye.
Ye.*; Explosive (meteoritic) origin of the Zelenyy Gay structure on
the Ukrainian Shield, Transactions (Doklady) of the U.S.S.R. Academy
of Sciences: Earth Science Sections, v. 229n. 1-6, p. 34-36, 1976
*Zhamanshin* Kazakhstan
Lat. 48.40; Long: 60.97; Diam. (km): 13.5; Age (My): 0.9 +/- 0.1
*Izokh, E. P.*; Zhamanshin impact crater and tektite problem.;
Soviet geology and geophysics., Volume 32, Number 4, p.1-10 1991
*Glazovskaya, L. I.; Golubkov, V. V.* ; Tektites and impact glasses
of the Zhamanshin Crater; structure peculiarities in connection with
genesis problems, in: Third international conference on Natural
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*Garvin, J. B.; Schnetzler, C. C. *; The Zhamanshin impact feature;
a new class of complex crater? in: Dressler, B. O.; Grieve, R. A.
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249-257, 1994
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