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Rochechouart impact structure
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Rochechouart is an impact crater in France.
The crater diameter is still under study but expected to be about 21 km and its current age estimate is given as 214 ± 8 million years, placing it in the Upper Triassic period. Since then the crater has been deeply eroded, and no trace of its original surface morphology is visible anymore.

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Latitude: 45°49'27"N, Longitude: 0°46'54"E

Google earth file: Impact structures (96kb, kmz)



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