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Meteorites and Craters Found in Chile: A Bridge to Introduce the First Attempt for Geoheritage Legal Protection in the Country

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Geoethics In Latin America

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This contribution presents a short historic review of meteorites and impact craters found in Chile, and how they were recently proposed to be protected as geological heritage, helping to introduce for the first time the concepts of geoheritage and geodiversity to a political level in the country. It includes a table with the percentages of the different types of meteorites found in Chile, for a total number of 1064 official meteorites declared to the Meteoritical Bulletin until July 2017.

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  1. Instituto Milenio de Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile PUC, Av. V. Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago de Chile, Chile

    Millarca Valenzuela

  2. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Av. Santa María 0104, Providencia, Santiago de Chile, Chile

    Millarca Valenzuela

  3. Sociedad Geológica de Chile, Valentín Letelier 020 of. 401, Santiago de Chile, Chile

    Millarca Valenzuela & José Benado

  4. Fundación Centro de Estudios de Montaña, Ramón Carnicer 17, of. 053, Providencia, Santiago de Chile, Chile

    Millarca Valenzuela & José Benado

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  1. Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET), Ushuaia, Tierra de Fuego, Argentina

    Rogelio Daniel Acevedo

  2. Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Instituto de Geociencias IGEO (CSIC-UCM), Madrid, Spain

    Jesús Martínez Frías

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Valenzuela, M., Benado, J. (2018). Meteorites and Craters Found in Chile: A Bridge to Introduce the First Attempt for Geoheritage Legal Protection in the Country. In: Acevedo, R., Frías, J. (eds) Geoethics In Latin America . The Latin American Studies Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75373-7_7

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