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STRONG evidence for the occurrence of explosion craters caused by the impact of large meteorites on the surface of the Earth through geologic time has been accumulating from several distinct lines of search within the past ten years1. The Dominion Observatory of Canada has now examined sixteen structures of possible impact origin by combinations of aerial photography, geophysical methods, field mapping, drilling and laboratory investigations2. Dence grouped the impact structures into simple craters, characterized by diameters of less than 10 km and by the absence of a central uplift, and complex craters having a diameter of more than 10 km and a central uplift surrounded by an annular depression3.
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SVENSSON, NB. Probable Meteorite Impact Crater in Central Sweden. Nature Physical Science 229, 90–92 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci229090a0
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