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Dhala impact structure

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Dhala crater is an impact crater in the Madhya Pradesh state of India. Its age is estimated between 1.7 and 2.1 billion years. Its diameter is estimated at 11 km. It is exposed at the surface.

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The news of the discovery of one of the oldest impact structures in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh by an Allahabad University geologist could open up new vistas of research in India as well as in the Asian continent on meteorites that strike the Earth.
It is worth mentioning here that Dr Jayanta K Pati of the planetary science department of Allahabad University has recently discovered the Dhala impact structure believed to have been created by an asteroid of the size of about one Km in diameter about 2,500 million years ago which is being considered of great significance with regard to widening the field of occurrence of impact structures in Asia.

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Digital Elevation Model of Dhala impact structure, India based on Survey of India topographic contour data (54K/3, 4, 7 and 8). The estimated diameter (~25 km) based on remote sensing data is shown in dotted line. Linear ridges are quartz veins (GQV).

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The Dhala structure (N25°17'59.7" and E78°8'3.1") is situated in Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh State, India. Currently, the diameter of the structure is estimated at 11 km based on field observations. The basement rocks are predominantly composed of granitoids, and in the central most part of the structure voluminous melt breccia containing target rock clasts with shock metamorphic features are directly overlain by a post-impact silt-stone-shale-sandstone sequence of the Vindhyan Supergroup.
Recent geochronological dates suggest that the age of the impact event lies in the range between 1.6 and 2.5 Ga.

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One of the oldest impact structures in the world, created by an asteroid of the size of about one km in diameter about 2,500 million years ago, has been discovered by an Indian geologist in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district.
The newly discovered Dhala structure, second in India after Lonar, has been named after the village near which it was discovered. It is the eroded remnant of the an impact structure with an estimated present day diameter of 11-km, the largest in Asia. Till date not a single confirmed impact structure has been reported from Japan and China.

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Date: Apr 22 20:17 2006

This structure was discovered by Dr. Jayanta K. Pati, University of Allahabad, India. The age is estimated to be 2000 million years old.

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The Dhala structure is a newly discovered impact structure in central India, that had an estimated diameter of 15 km.
Proterozoic age impact occurred in the western fringe of Bundelkhand craton, Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh, India. The impact structure has unequivocal evidences of diagnostic shock metamorphic features; extensive deformational imprints and a large impact melt vein. It is a complex structure with a clearly defined central uplift and a breccia ring. The crater fill sediments, occurring around the central uplift, preserve excellent soft sediment deformation structures.
The age is estimated to be 650 million years old.

Position: 25.3000 N 78.1342 E