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THE Ries Kessel is a meteoritic crater of 24 km diameter situated 70 km north-west of Munich in Germany. Its impact origin has been established by Shoemaker and Chao1 and confirmed in this laboratory and elsewhere by the examination of high-pressure alterations to its minerals. Its age, determined by Gentner et al.2, is 14.8 million years, which is the same as that of moldavite tektites.
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JOHNSON, G., VAND, V. & DACHILLE, F. Additional Rims around the Ries Kessel Meteoritic Crater. Nature 201, 592–593 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201592a0
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