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The Nadir Crater offshore West Africa: A candidate Cretaceous-Paleogene impact structure

Evidence of marine target impacts, binary impact craters, or impact clusters are rare on Earth. Seismic reflection data from the Guinea Plateau, West Africa, reveal a ≥8.5-km-wide structure buried below ~300 to 400 m of Paleogene sediment with characteristics consistent with a complex impact crater....

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Autores principales: Nicholson, Uisdean, Bray, Veronica J., Gulick, Sean P. S., Aduomahor, Benedict
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9385158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35977017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abn3096