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Impact craters in South America

A complete and updated catalogue of impact craters and structures in South America from 2014 is presented here. Approximately eighty proven, suspected and disproven structures have been identified by several sources in this continent. All the impact sites of this large continent have been exhaustive...

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Autores principales: Acevedo, Rogelio Daniel, Rocca, Maximiliano C L, Ponce, Juan Federico, Stinco, Sergio G
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Springer 2015
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2269340
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Sumario:A complete and updated catalogue of impact craters and structures in South America from 2014 is presented here. Approximately eighty proven, suspected and disproven structures have been identified by several sources in this continent. All the impact sites of this large continent have been exhaustively reviewed: the proved ones, the possible ones and some very doubtful. Many sites remain without a clear geological ""in situ"" confirmation and some of them could be even rejected. Argentina and Brazil are leading the list containing almost everything detected. In Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Guyana,