Earth Craters – South America

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Earth Craters, South America

 
 

This is:  South American Impact Craters

Quaternary Tertiary Cretaceous Jurassic Triassic Permian
Carboniferous Devonian Silurian Ordovician Cambrian Precambrian

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Map
Ref
Name Location Lat Long Age (Ma) Diameter
(kms)
Surface
Exposed
Pic Notes
C Campo Del Cielo Argentina S 27° 38' W 61° 42' <0.004 0.05 yes yes n/a
B Rio Cuarto Argentina S 32° 52'  W 64° 14' &lt0.1 4.5 yes no n/a
A Monturaqui Chile S 23° 56' W 68° 17'  <1 0.46 yes yes n/a
D Vargeao Dome Brazil S 26° 50' W 52° 7'  <70 12 yes no n/a
F Riachao Ring Brazil S 7° 43' W 46° 39' <200 4.5 yes yes n/a
E Araguainha Dome Brazil S 16° 47' W 52° 59' 247 ± 5.5 40 yes yes n/a
G Serra Da Cangalha Brazil S 8° 5' W 46° 52' <300 12 yes yes n/a

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From www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/


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Notes:
Created 2001, Updated: Feb 2007, last update (code clean) Apr 2017
>20 km The formation of impact craters as small as 20 km could produce light reductions and temperature disruptions similar to a nuclear winter. Such impacts occur on Earth with a frequency of two or three every million years.

References
1 Natural Resources Canada - Regional Geophysics Section
2 UCMP Web Time Machine
3 Image Update 2007 - PASSC
4 Aerial Explorations of Terrestrial Meteorite Craters - Charles O'Dale