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Large (>100 km Diameter) Impact Structures

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This chapter present summaries of the structure and shock metamorphic features of some of the largest recorded impact structures, including Maniitsoq (southwest Greenland), Yarrabubba (Western Australia), Vredefort (South Africa), Sudbury (Ontario) and Chicxulub (Yucatan, Mexico). Large impact structures (D ≥ 100 km) are more likely to have major seismic, tectonic and magmatic effects.

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Glikson, A.Y. (2013). Large (>100 km Diameter) Impact Structures. In: The Asteroid Impact Connection of Planetary Evolution. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6328-9_9

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