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List of impact structures on Earth

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This list of impact structures (including impact craters) on Earth contains the majority of the 194+ confirmed impact structures given in the Earth Impact Database as of 2024.{{cite web |title=Earth Impact Database |url=https://impact.uwo.ca/map/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2016-04-30 |publisher=University of New Brunswick}}

Alphabetical lists for different continents can be found under Impact structures by continent below.

Unconfirmed structures can be found at List of possible impact structures on Earth.

Confirmed impact structures listed by size and age

These features were caused by the collision of meteors (consisting of large fragments of asteroids) or comets (consisting of ice, dust particles and rocky fragments) with the Earth. For eroded or buried craters, the stated diameter typically refers to the best available estimate of the original rim diameter, and may not correspond to present surface features. Time units are either in ka (thousands) or Ma (millions) of years.

=10 ka or less=

Less than ten thousand years old, and with a diameter of {{cvt|100|m||}} or more. The EID lists fewer than ten such craters, and the largest in the last 100,000 years (100 ka) is the {{cvt|4.5|km||}} Rio Cuarto crater in Argentina.Bland, Phil A.; de Souza Filho, C. R.; Timothy Jull, A. J.; Kelley, Simon P.; Hough, Robert Michael; Artemieva, N. A.; Pierazzo, E.; Coniglio, J.; Pinotti, Lucio; Evers, V.; Kearsley, Anton; (2002); [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11367157_A_possible_tektite_strewn_field_in_the_Argentinian_Pampa_Science "A possible tektite strewn field in the Argentinian Pampa"], Science, volume 296, issue 5570, pp. 1109–12 However, there is some uncertainty regarding its origins{{cite Earth Impact DB |name=Rio Cuarto |linkname=riocuarto |access-date=2009-08-19 }} and age, with some sources giving it as < 10 kaSchultz, Peter H.; Lianza, Ruben E. (1992) "Recent grazing impacts on the Earth recorded in the Rio Cuarto crater field, Argentina", Nature 355, pp. 234–37 (16 January 1992) while the EID gives a broader < 100 ka.

The Kaali impacts ({{circa|1500 BC}}) during the Nordic Bronze Age may have influenced Estonian and Finnish mythology,{{cite web |url=http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol23/echoes.pdf |title=Echoes of Ancient Cataclysms in the Baltic Sea |access-date=2008-10-26 |last1=Haas |first1=Ain |first2=Andres |last2=Peekna |first3=Robert E. |last3=Walker |publisher=Electronic Journal of Folklore }} the Campo del Cielo ({{circa|2500 BC}}) could be in the legends of some Native Argentine tribes,{{cite web |title=Meteorites of Campo del Cielo: Impact on the indian culture |first1=Giménez |last1=Benítez |last2=López |first2=Alejandro M. |last3=Mammana |first3=Luis A. |url=http://www.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar/~sixto/arqueo/w-6-ing.htm }}{{cite book |first1=Peter T. |last1=Bobrowsky |first2=Hans |last2=Rickman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gpwgm022ltMC&pg=PA31 |pages=30–31 |title=Comet/asteroid impacts and human society: an interdisciplinary approach |publisher=Springer |year=2007 |isbn=978-3-540-32709-7 }} while Henbury ({{circa|2700 BC}}) has figured in Australian Aboriginal oral traditions.{{cite web |title=Aboriginal oral traditions of Australian impact craters |first1=Duane W. |last1=Hamacher |first2=John |last2=Goldsmith |url=http://www.narit.or.th/en/files/2013JAHHvol16/2013JAHH...16..295H.pdf |access-date=2016-04-09 |archive-date=2018-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820103004/http://www.narit.or.th/en/files/2013JAHHvol16/2013JAHH...16..295H.pdf |url-status=dead }}

File:Macha craters overview map.jpg field map]]

Image:Kaali main crater on 2005-08-10.3.jpgs]]

class="wikitable sortable"

!Name

!Location

!Country

!Diameter
(km)

!Age
(ka)

!Date

!Coordinates

Wabar

|Rub' al Khali desert

|Saudi Arabia

|{{0|00}}0.1

|{{0|< 0}}0.2

|{{sort

-1800|~1800 AD}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|21|30|N|50|28|E

}

|-

|Dalgaranga

|Western Australia

|Australia

|0.024

|less than 3?

|

|

|-

|Whitecourt

|Alberta

|Canada

|{{0|00}}0.04

|{{0|< 0}}1.1

|{{align|right|{{sort|--900|900 AD}}}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{Coord|54|00|N|115|36|W|}}

|-

|Kaali

|Saaremaa

|Estonia

|{{0|00}}0.1

|{{0|< 0}}3.5

|{{0}}{{sort|-1500|1500 BC}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|58|24|N|22|40|E|}}

|-

|Campo del Cielo

|Chaco

|Argentina

|{{0|00}}0.1

|{{0|< 0}}4.5

|{{0}}{{sort|-2500|2500 BC}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|27|38|S|61|42|W|}}

|-

|Henbury

|Northern Territory

|Australia

|{{0|00}}0.2

|{{0|< 0}}4.7

|{{0}}{{sort|-2700|2700 BC}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|24|34|S|133|8|E|}}

|-

|Morasko

|Poznań

|Poland

|{{0|00}}0.1

|{{0|< 0}}5.0{{cite web |title=Luminescence dating of the Morasko (Poland), Kaali, Ilumetsa, and Tsõõrikmäe (Estonia) meteorite craters |first1=Wojciech |last1=Stankowski |first2=Anto |last2=Raukas | author-link2 = Anto Raukas|first3=Andrzej |last3=Bluszcz |first4=Stanisław |last4=Fedorowicz |url=http://www.geochronometria.pl/pdf/geo_28/Geo28_04.pdf }}

|{{0}}{{sort|-3000|3000 BC}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|52|29|N|16|54|E|}}

|-

|Boxhole

|Northern Territory

|Australia

|{{0|00}}0.2

|{{0|< 0}}5.4

|{{0}}{{sort|-3400|3400 BC}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{Coord|22|37|S|135|12|E|}}

|-

|Macha

|Sakha Republic

|Russia

|{{0|00}}0.3

|{{0|< 0}}7.3

|{{0}}{{sort|-5300|5300 BC}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|60|6|N|117|35|E|}}

|-

|Luna

|Gujarat

|India

|1.5-1.8

|less than 6.9

|< 5000 BC

|

|}

The EID gives a size of about {{cvt|50|m||}} for Campo del Cielo, but other sources quote {{cvt|100|m||}}.

=10 ka to 1 Ma=

From between 10 thousand years and one million years ago, and with a diameter of less than {{cvt|1|km|spell=in|}}:

class="wikitable sortable"

!Name

!Location

!Country

!Diameter
(km)

!Age
(ka)

!Coordinates

Wolfe Creek

| rowspan="2" |Western Australia

| rowspan="2" |Australia

|0.9

|{{Sort|119|< 120}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{Coord|19|10|18|S|127|47|44|E

}

|-

|Hickman

|0.26

|10-100

|

|-

|Kalkkop

|Eastern Cape

|South Africa

|0.64

|~250

|

|-

|Jeokjung-Chogye Basin

|Gyeongsangnam

|South Korea

|8

|30-63

|

|-

|Monturaqui

|Atacama Desert

|Chile

|0.455

|{{Sort|.640|640 ± 140}}

|{{Coord|23|55|40|S|68|15|41|W}}

|-

|Pantasma

|Jinotega

|Nicaragua

|14

|804

|

|-

|Amguid

|Tamanrasset

|Algeria

|0.45

|10-100

|

|-

|Aorounga Central

|Borkou

|Chad

|16

|Possibly 500

|

|}

From between ten thousand years and one million years ago, and with a diameter of {{cvt|1|km|spell=in|}} or more. The largest in the last one million years is the {{convert|14|km|adj=on|}} Zhamanshin crater in Kazakhstan and has been described as being capable of producing a nuclear-like winter.[https://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/essay.html Essay "Impact Cratering on Earth"], based on: {{cite journal | last1 = Grieve | first1 = Richard A. F. | year = 1990 | title = Impact cratering on the Earth | journal = Scientific American | volume = 262 | issue = 4| pages = 66–73 | doi = 10.1038/scientificamerican0490-66 | bibcode = 1990SciAm.262d..66G }}

The source of the enormous Australasian strewnfield (c. 780 ka) is a currently undiscovered crater probably located in Southeast Asia.Povenmire, Harold; Liu, W.; Xianlin, Luo (1999) [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/LPSC99/pdf/1072.pdf "Australasian tektites found in Guangxi Province, China"], in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, March 1999Glass, Billy P.; Pizzuto, James E. (1994) [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994JGR....9919075G "Geographic variation in Australasian microtektite concentrations: Implications concerning the location and size of the source crater"], Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 99, no. E9, 19075–81, September 1994

Image:Meteor Crater - Arizona.jpg, {{cvt|1.2|km||}}]]

Image:Tenoumer.jpg, {{cvt|1.9|km||}}]]

class="wikitable sortable"

!Name

!Location

!Country

!Diameter
(km)

!Age
(ka)

!Coordinates

Yilan

|Heilongjiang

|China

|{{0}}{{sort|.0185|1.85}}

|{{0}}{{sort|.049|49}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|46|23|4|N|129|19|39|E}}

Meteor/Barringer

|Arizona

|United States

|{{0}}{{sort|.012|1.2}}

|{{0}}{{sort|.049|49}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|35|1|39|N|111|1|22|W

}

|-

|Xiuyan

|Xiuyan

|China

|{{0}}{{sort|.018|1.8}}

|{{0}}{{sort|.050|50}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|40|21|42|N|123|27|47|E|}}

|-

|Lonar

|Maharashtra

|India

|{{0}}{{sort|.018|1.8}}

|{{sort|.576|576 ± 47}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|19|58|37|N|76|30|32|E|}}

|-

|Agoudal{{cite Earth Impact DB |name=Agoudal |access-date=2016-08-18 }}

|Atlas Mountains

|Morocco

|{{0}}{{sort|.030|3.0}}

|{{sort|.105|105}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|31|59|N|5|30|W|}}

|-

|Tswaing

|Pretoria Saltpan

|South Africa

|{{0}}{{sort|.011|1.1}}

|{{sort|.220|220}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|25|24|32|S|28|4|58|E|}}

|-

|Zhamanshin

|Kazakhstan

|Kazakhstan

|{{sort|.140|14.0}}

|{{sort|.900|900 ± 100}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|48|24|0|N|60|58|0|E|}}

|}

=1 Ma to 10 Ma=

File:Elgygytgyn.jpg, {{cvt|18|km||}}]]

File:Bosumtwi Worldwind SW.jpg, {{cvt|10|km||}}]]

From between 1 and 10 million years ago. The large but apparently craterless Eltanin impact (2.5 Ma) into the Pacific Ocean has been suggested as contributing to the glaciations and cooling during the Pliocene.{{cite web |url=http://phys.org/news/2012-09-pacific-ocean-meteor-trigger-ice.html |title=Did a Pacific Ocean meteor trigger the Ice Age? |last=University of New South Wales |date=19 September 2012 |access-date=8 October 2012 }}

class="wikitable sortable"

!Name

!Location

!Country

!Diameter
(km)

!Age
(Million years)

!Coordinates

Tenoumer

|Sahara Desert

|Mauritania

|{{0|0.0}}{{sort|.019|1.9}}

|{{0|.0}}{{sort|0.0157|1.6 ± 0.1}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|22|55|2|N|10|24|28|W

}

|-

|Bosumtwi

|Ashanti

|Ghana

|{{0|0.0}}{{sort|.00105|10}}

|{{0|00;0}}{{sort|.0011|1.1}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|6|30|N|1|25|W|}}

|-

|New Quebec/Pingualuit

|Quebec

|Canada

|{{0|0.0}}3.4

|{{0|.0}}1.4 ± 0.1

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|61|16|39|N|73|39|36|W|}}

|-

|El'gygytgyn

|Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

|Russia

|{{0|0.0}}{{sort|.00180|18}}

|{{0|00;0}}{{sort|.0035|3.5}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|67|30|N|172|00|E|}}

|-

|Bigach

|Kazakhstan

|Kazakhstan

|{{0|000}}{{sort|.00080|8}}

|{{0|00;00}}{{sort|.0050|5}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|48|34|N|82|1|E|}}

|-

|Karla

|Tatarstan

|Russia

|{{0|0.0}}{{sort|.00100|10}}

|{{0|00;00}}{{sort|.0050|5}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|54|55|N|48|2|E|}}

|-

|Alhama de Almería

|Almería

|Spain

|{{0|0.0}}22

|{{0|00;00}}8

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|36|58|N| 2|32|W|name=Kara-Kul}}

|-

|Roter Kamm

|Karas

|Namibia

|{{0|0.0}}2.4

|{{0|.0}}3.8 ± 0.3

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|27|45|55|S|16|17|21|E|}}

|-

|Talemzane

|Djelfa

|Algeria

|{{0|0.0}}1.6

|{{0|00.0}}< 3

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|33|18|55|N|4|02|04|E}}

|-

|Tsenkher

|Gobi-Altai

|Mongolia

|{{0|0.0}}3.7

|{{0|.0}}4.9 ± 0.9

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|47|26|31|N|101|46|15|E}}

|-

|Aouelloul

|Adrar

|Mauritania

|0.39

|3.1 ± 0.3

|

|}

={{anchor|Largest craters}}10 Ma or more=

Most recorded impact craters are over 10 million years old, or have widely uncertain ages. The Chicxulub impact has been widely considered the most likely cause for the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction, with some scholars linking other impacts like the Popigai impact in Russia and the Chesapeake Bay impact to later extinction events, though the causal relationship has been questioned.{{Cite journal |last=Rampino |first=Michael R. |date=February 2020 |title=Relationship between impact-crater size and severity of related extinction episodes |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0012825219303939 |journal=Earth-Science Reviews |language=en |volume=201 |pages=102990 |doi=10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102990|bibcode=2020ESRv..20102990R }}

File:Sudbury Wanapitei WorldWind.jpg, {{cvt|130|km||}}]]

File:Yucatan chix crater.jpg, {{cvt|150|km||}}]]

File:Popigai crater russia.jpg, {{cvt|100|km||}}]]

File:STS009 Manicouagan.jpg, {{cvt|100|km||}}]]

File:Acraman.jpg, {{cvt|85|to|90|km}}]]

File:Charlevoix Meteorite Crater.jpg, {{cvt|54|km||}}]]

File:Nördlinger Ries Relief Map, SRTM-1.jpg, {{cvt|24|km||}}]]

class="wikitable sortable"

!Name

!Location

!Country

!Diameter (km)

!Age (million years)

!Coordinates

Vredefort

|Free State

|South Africa

|{{sort|.01600|160}}

|{{sort|.20230|2023 ± 4}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|27|0|S|27|30|E

name=Vredefort}}
Chicxulub

|Yucatán

|Mexico

|{{sort|.01500|150}}

|{{sort|.00660|66.051 ± 0.031}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|21|20|N|89|30|W|name=Chicxulub}}

Sudbury

|Ontario

|Canada

|{{sort|.01300|130}}

|{{sort|.18490|1849}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|46|36|N|81|11|W|name=Sudbury}}

Popigai

|Siberia

|Russia

|{{sort|.01000|100}}

|{{sort|.00357|35.7 ± 0.2}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|71|39|N|111|11|E|name=Popigai}}

Manicouagan

|Quebec

|Canada

|{{sort|.01000|100}}

|{{sort|.02156|215.56 ± 0.05}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|51|23|N|68|42|W|name=Manicouagan}}

Acraman

|South Australia

|Australia

|{{sort|.00900|90}}

|{{sort|.05800|580}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|32|1|S|135|27|E|name=Acraman}}

Morokweng

|Kalahari Desert

|South Africa

|{{sort|.00700|70}}

|{{sort|.01461|146.06 ± 0.16}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|26|28|S|23|32|E|name=Morokweng}}

Kara

|Nenetsia

|Russia

|{{sort|.00650|65}}

|{{sort|.00753|75.34 ± 0.66}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|69|6|N|64|9|E|name=Kara}}

Beaverhead

|Idaho and Montana

|United States

|{{sort|.00600|60}}

|{{sort|.06000|600}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|44|15|N|114|0|W|name=Beaverhead}}

Tookoonooka

|Queensland

|Australia

|66

|121.8–123.8

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|27|7|S|142|50|E|name=Tookoonooka}}

Charlevoix

|Quebec

|Canada

|{{sort|.00540|54}}

|{{sort|.03420|342}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|47|32|N|70|18|W|name=Charlevoix}}

Siljan Ring

|Dalarna

|Sweden

|65-75

|380.9 ± 4.6

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|61|2|N|14|52|E|name=Siljan}}

Karakul

|Pamir Mountains

|Tajikistan

|{{sort|.00520|52}}

|less than 60

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|39|1|N|73|27|E|name=Kara-Kul}}

Montagnais

|Nova Scotia

|Canada

|{{sort|.00450|45}}

|{{sort|.00505|50.5}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|42|53|N|64|13|W|name=Montagnais}}

Araguainha

|Central Brazil

|Brazil

|{{sort|.00400|40}}

|{{sort|.02444|244.4}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|16|47|S|52|59|W|name=Araguainha}}

Chesapeake Bay

|Virginia

|United States

|{{sort|.00400|40}}

|{{sort|.00349|34.86 ± 0.23}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|37|17|N|76|1|W|name=Chesapeake Bay}}

Mjølnir

|Barents Sea

|Norway

|{{sort|.00400|40}}

|{{sort|.01420|142}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|73|48|N|29|40|E|name=Mjølnir}}

Puchezh-Katunki

|Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

|Russia

|{{sort|.00400|40}}

|{{sort|.01959|195.9 ± 1.0}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|56|58|N|43|43|E|name=Puchezh-Katunki}}

Saint Martin

|Manitoba

|Canada

|{{sort|.00400|40}}

|{{sort|.02278|227.8 ± 1.1}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|51|47|N|98|32|W|name=Saint Martin}}

Woodleigh

|Western Australia

|Australia

|{{sort|.00400|40}}

|{{sort|.03640|364}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|26|3|S|114|40|E|name=Woodleigh}}

Carswell

|Saskatchewan

|Canada

|{{sort|.00390|39}}

|{{sort|.01150|115}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|58|27|N|109|30|W|name=Carswell}}

Clearwater West

|Quebec

|Canada

|{{sort|.00360|36}}

|{{sort|.02900|290}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|56|13|N|74|30|W|name=Clearwater West}}

Manson

|Iowa

|United States

|{{sort|.00350|35}}

|{{sort|.00740|74}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|42|35|N|94|33|W|name=Manson}}

Hiawatha

|Greenland

|Denmark

|{{sort|.00310|31}}

|{{sort|.00580|57.99 ± 0.54}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|78|50|N|67|18|W}}

Slate Islands

|Ontario

|Canada

|{{sort|.00300|30}}

|{{sort|.04500|450}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|48|40|N|87|0|W|name=Slate Islands}}

Yarrabubba

|Western Australia

|Australia

|{{sort|.00300|30}}

|{{sort|.22290|2229}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|27|10|S|118|50|E|name=Yarrabubba}}

Keurusselkä

|Western Finland

|Finland

|{{sort|.00300|30}}

|{{sort|.14000|1400–1500}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|62|8|N|24|36|E|name=Keurusselkä}}

Shoemaker

|Western Australia

|Australia

|{{sort|.00300|30}}

|{{sort|.16300|1630?}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|25|52|S|120|53|E|name=Shoemaker}}

Mistastin

|Newfoundland and Labrador

|Canada

|{{sort|.00280|28}}

|{{sort|.00364|36.4}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|55|53|N|63|18|W|name=Mistastin}}

Clearwater East

|Quebec

|Canada

|{{sort|.00260|26}}

|{{sort|.04650|465}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|56|4|N|74|6|W|name=Clearwater East}}

Kamensk

|Southern Federal District

|Russia

|{{sort|.00250|25}}

|{{sort|.00490|49}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|48|21|N|40|30|E|name=Kamensk}}

Steen River

|Alberta

|Canada

|{{sort|.00250|25}}

|{{sort|.00910|91}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|59|30|N|117|38|W|name=Steen River}}

Strangways

|Northern Territory

|Australia

|{{sort|.00250|25}}

|{{sort|.06460|646}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|15|12|S|133|35|E|name=Strangways}}

Tunnunik

|Northwest Territories

|Canada

|{{sort|.00250|25}}

|{{sort|.04400|430–450}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|72|28|N|113|58|W|name=Tunuunik}}

Boltysh

|Kirovohrad Oblast

|Ukraine

|{{sort|.00240|24}}

|{{sort|.00652|65.17}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|48|54|N|32|15|E|name=Boltysh}}

Nördlinger Ries

|Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg

|Germany

|{{sort|.00240|24}}

|{{sort|.00148|14.808 ± 0.038}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|48|53|N|10|34|E|name=Nördlinger Ries}}

Presqu'île

|Quebec

|Canada

|{{sort|.00240|24}}

|{{sort|.05000|less than 500}}

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|49|43|N|74|48|W|name=Presqu'ile}}

Haughton

|Nunavut

|Canada

|{{sort|.00230|23}}

|{{sort|.00390|39}}

|style="text-align:right"| {{coord|75|23|N|89|40|W|name=Haughton}}

Lappajärvi

|Western Finland

|Finland

|{{sort|.00230|23}}

|{{sort|.00778|77.85 ± 0.78}}

|style="text-align:right"| {{coord|63|12|N|23|42|E|name=Lappajärvi}}

Rochechouart

|France

|France

|{{sort|.00230|23}}

|{{sort|.02010|206.92 ± 0.32}}{{Cite journal |last1=Cohen |first1=Benjamin E. |last2=Mark |first2=Darren F. |last3=Lee |first3=Martin R. |last4=Simpson |first4=Sarah L. |date=2017-08-01 |title=A new high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Rochechouart impact structure: At least 5 Ma older than the Triassic–Jurassic boundary |journal=Meteoritics & Planetary Science |language=en |volume=52 |issue=8 |pages=1600–11 |doi=10.1111/maps.12880 |issn=1945-5100 |bibcode=2017M&PS...52.1600C |doi-access=free |hdl=10023/10787 |hdl-access=free }}

|style="text-align:right"| {{coord|45|49|N|0|47|E|name=Rochechouart}}

Cerro do Jarau

|Rio Grande do Sul

|Brazil

|13.5

|less than 135

|{{coord|30|11|S|56|31|W|name=Rochechouart}}

Cleanskin

|Northern Territory

|Australia

|15

|{{sort|.09600|520–1400}}

|{{coord|18|10|S|137|56|E|name=Rochechouart}}

Amelia Creek

|Northern Territory

|Australia

|{{sort|.00200|20}}

|{{sort|.06000|600–1640}}

|{{coord|20|55|S|134|50|E|name=Amelia Creek}}

Avak

|Alaska

|United States

|10

|90-94

|

Ames

|Oklahoma

|United States

|16

|{{sort|.04680|458–478}}

|{{coord|36|14|N|98|11|W|name=Rochechouart}}

Beyenchime-Salaatin

|Sakha

|Russia

|8

|Likely less than 66

|

B.P. Structure

|Cyrenaica

|Libya

|3.2

|less than 120

|{{coord|25|19|N|24|18|E|name=Rochechouart}}

Brent

|Ontario

|Canada

|3.4

|{{sort|.04532|453.2 ± 6.0}}{{Cite journal |last1=McGregor |first1=Maree |last2=Dence |first2=Michael R. |last3=McFarlane |first3=Christopher R. M. |last4=Spray |first4=John G. |date=July 2020 |title=U–Pb geochronology of apatite and zircon from the Brent impact structure, Canada: a Late Ordovician Sandbian–Katian boundary event associated with L-Chondrite parent body disruption |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00410-020-01699-9 |journal=Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology |language=en |volume=175 |issue=7 |page=63 |doi=10.1007/s00410-020-01699-9 |bibcode=2020CoMP..175...63M |issn=0010-7999}}

|{{coord|46|4|N|78|28|W|name=Rochechouart}}

Calvin

|Michigan

|United States

|8.5

|{{sort|.04510|444–458}}

|{{coord|41|49|N|85|56|W|name=Rochechouart}}

Chiyli

|Aktobe

|Kazakhstan

|5.5

|{{sort|.00485|41–56}}

|{{coord|49|10|N|57|50|E|name=Rochechouart}}

Chukcha

|Taymyr

|Russia

|6

|less than 70

|{{coord|75|38|N|98|35|E|name=Rochechouart}}

Cloud Creek

|Wyoming

|United States

|7

|{{sort|.01965|166–227}}

|{{coord|43|4|N|106|45|W|name=Rochechouart}}

Colonia

|São Paulo

|Brazil

|3.6

|{{sort|.00205|5–36}}

|{{coord|23|52|S|46|42|W|name=Rochechouart}}

Connolly Basin

|Western Australia

|Australia

|9

|{{sort|.00295|23–36}}

|{{coord|23|32|S|124|45|E|name=Rochechouart}}

Couture

|Quebec

|Canada

|8

|{{sort|.04290|429 ± 25}}

|{{coord|60|7|N|75|18|W|name=Rochechouart}}

Crooked Creek

| rowspan="2" |Missouri

| rowspan="2" |United States

|7

|{{sort|.04040|323–485}}

|

Decaturville

|6

|less than 323

|

Decorah

|Iowa

|United States

|5.6

|{{sort|.04655|464–467}}

|

Deep Bay

|Saskatchewan

|Canada

|13

|{{sort|.00985|95–102}}

|

Dellen

|Gavleborgs

|Sweden

|19

|{{sort|.01408|140.82 ± 0.51}}

|

Des Plaines

|Illinois

|United States

|8

|less than 299

|

Dhala

|Madhya Pradesh

|India

|11

|{{sort|.21000|1700–2500}}

|

Dobele

|Dobele

|Latvia

|4.5

|{{sort|.03055|252–359}}

|

Douglas

|Wyoming

|United States

|16

|{{sort|.02800|~280}}

|

Eagle Butte

|Alberta

|Canada

|8

|less than 65

|

Elbow

|Saskatchewan

|Canada

|3.8

|{{sort|.02970|201–393}}

|

Flaxman

|South Australia

|Australia

|10

|34–541

|

Flynn Creek

|Tennessee

|United States

|3.8

|~382

|

Foelsche

|Northern Territory

|Australia

|6

|520–1496

|

Gardnos

|Buskerud

|Norway

|5

|546 ± 5

|

Glasford

|Illinois

|United States

|4

|453–457

|

Glikson

|Western Australia

|Australia

|19

|less than 513

|

Glover Bluff

|Wisconsin

|United States

|8

|less than 485

|

Goat Paddock

|Western Australia

|Australia

|5

|48–56

|

Gosses Bluff

|Northern Territory

|Australia

|{{sort|.00220|32}}

|165–383

|style="text-align:right"|{{coord|23|49|S|132|18|E|name=Gosses Bluff}}

Gow

|Saskatchewan

|Canada

|4

|196.8 ± 9.9

|

Goyder

|Northern Territory

|Australia

|7

|150–1325

|

Granby

|Ostergotland

|Sweden

|3

|478–468

|

Gweni-Fada

|Ennedi

|Chad

|22

|less than 383

|

Holleford

|Ontario

|Canada

|2.35

|450–650

|

Hummeln

|Småland

|Sweden

|1.2

|~465

|

Ile Rouleau

|Quebec

|Canada

|4

|less than 300

|

Ilkurlka

|Western Australia

|Australia

|12

|"Middle Cambrian"

|

Ilyinets

|Vinnytsia

|Ukraine

|4.5

|445 ± 10

|

Iso-Naakkima

|Mikkeli

|Finland

|3

|900–1200

|

Jake Seller Draw

|Wyoming

|United States

|4.3

|280

|

Janisjarvi

|Karelia

|Russia

|14

|687 ± 5

|

Jabel Waqf as Suwwan

|Ma'an

|Jordan

|5.5

|2.6–30

|

Kaluga

|Kaluga

|Russia

|15

|383–394

|

Kamenetsk

|Mykolaiv

|Ukraine

|1.2

|11.63–2100

|

Kardla

|Hiiu

|Estonia

|4

|~455

|

Karikkoselkä

|Central Finland

|Finland

|2.1–2.4

|230–260

|

Kelly West

|Northern Territory

|Australia

|6.6

|500–1640

|

Kentland

|Indiana

|United States

|7

|less than 97

|

Kgagodi

|Central District

|Botswana

|3.4

|less than 180

|

Kursk

|Kursk

|Russia

|5.5

|163–359

|

La Moinerie

|Quebec

|Canada

|8

|453 ± 5

|

Lake Raeside

|Western Australia

|Australia

|11

|34–250

|

Lawn Hill

|Queensland

|Australia

|16.8

|476 ± 8

|

Liverpool

|Northern Territory

|Australia

|1.6

|541–1870

|

Lockne

|Jämtland

|Sweden

|13.5

|~455

|

Logancha

|Siberia

|Russia

|{{sort|.00200|20}}

|{{sort|.00400|40}}

| style="text-align:right" |{{coord|65|31|N|95|56|E|name=Logancha}}

Logoisk

|Minsk

|Belarus

|17

|30 ± 0.5

|

Luizi

|Katanga

|Dem. Rep. of the Congo

|15

|less than 573

|

Lumparn

|Southwest Finland

|Finland

|10

|less than 458

|

Malingen

|Jämtland

|Sweden

|0.7

|~455

|

Maple Creek

|Saskatchewan

|Canada

|5.75

|less than 72

|

Marquez

|Texas

|United States

|12.7

|58.3 ± 3.1

|

Matt Wilson

|Northern Territory

|Australia

|7.5

|less than 1344

|

Middlesboro

|Kentucky

|United States

|5.5

|less than 299

|

Mien

|Kronoberg

|Sweden

|7

|120 ± 1

|

Mishina Gora

|Pskov

|Russia

|2.5

|less than 360

|

Mizarai

|Alytus

|Lithuania

|5

|480–520

|

Mount Toondina

|South Australia

|Australia

|4

|less than 125

|

Neugrund

|Harju

|Estonia

|20

|530–540

|

Newporte

|North Dakota

|United States

|3.2

|480–500

|

Nicholson

|Northwest Territories

|Canada

|12.5

|387 ± 5

|

Nova Colinas

|Maranhao

|Brazil

|7

|Unknown

|

Oasis

|Kufra

|Libya

|15.6

|less than 120

|

Obolon'

|Poltava Oblast

|Ukraine

|{{sort|.00200|20}}

|{{sort|.01690|169}}

| style="text-align:right" |{{coord|49|35|N|32|55|E|name=Obolon'}}

Ora Banda

|Western Australia

|Australia

|5

|100

|

Ouarkziz

|Tindouf

|Algeria

|3

|65–345

|

Paasselkä

|Mikkeli

|Finland

|10

|231.0 ± 2.2

|

Pilot

|Northwest Territories

|Canada

|~6

|450 ± 2

|

Presqu'île

|Quebec

|Canada

|15

|less than 2729

|

Ragozinka

|Sverdlovsk

|Russia

|9

|56–59

|

Ramgarh

|Rajasthan

|India

|10

|165–750

|

Red Wing

|North Dakota

|United States

|9

|167–250

|

Riachão

|Maranhao

|Brazil

|4

|less than 299

|

Ritland

|Rogaland

|Norway

|2.7

|500–541

|

Rock Elm

|Wisconsin

|United States

|6.5

|458–485

|

Rotmistrovka

|Cherkasy

|Ukraine

|2.7

|94–145

|

Saaksjarvi

|Western Finland

|Finland

|5

|602 ± 17

|

Saarijarvi

|Oulu

|Finland

|2

|less than 600

|

Santa Fe

|New Mexico

|United States

|13

|350–1200

|

Santa Marta

|Piaui

|Brazil

|10

|less than 100

|

Saqqar

|Jawf

|Saudi Arabia

|34

|70–410

|

Serpent Mound

|Ohio

|United States

|8

|less than 359

|

Serra da Cangalha

|Tocantins

|Brazil

|13.7

|less than 250

|

Shunak

|Karaganda

|Kazakhstan

|2.8

|7–17

|

Sierra Madera

|Texas

|United States

|20

|less than 113

|

Söderfjärden

|Ostrobothnia

|Finland

|6.5

|640

|

Spider

|Western Australia

|Australia

|13

|580–900

|

Steinheim

|Baden-Württemberg

|Germany

|3.8

|~14.8

|

Suavjärvi

|Karelia

|Russia

|16

|2200–2700

|

Summasjärvi

|Western Finland

|Finland

|2.6

|less than 1880

|

Suvasvesi North

| rowspan="2" |Northern Savonia

| rowspan="2" |Finland

|3.5

|~85

|

Suvasvesi South

|3.8

|710–1880

|

Tabun-Khara-Obo

|Dornogovi

|Mongolia

|1.3

|130–170

|

Talundilly

|Queensland

|Australia

|84

|~125

|

Ternovka

|Dnipropetrovsk

|Ukraine

|15

|280 ± 10

|

Tin Bider

|Tamanrasset

|Algeria

|6

|less than 66

|

Tvaren

|Södermanland

|Sweden

|3.1

|456–458

|

Upheaval Dome

|Utah

|United States

|5.2

|less than 183

|

Vargeao Dome

|Santa Catarina

|Brazil

|12.4

|123 ± 1.4

|

Vepriai

|Vilnius

|Lithuania

|7.5

|155–165

|

Viewfield

|Saskatchewan

|Canada

|2.4

|170–210

|

Vista Alegre

|Paraná

|Brazil

|9.5

|111–134

|

Wanapitei

|Ontario

|Canada

|7.5

|37.7 ± 1.2

|

Wells Creek

|Tennessee

|United States

|13.7

|100–323

|

West Hawk

|Manitoba

|Canada

|3.6

|351 ± 20

|

Wetumpka

|Alabama

|United States

|6.25

|~83.5

|

Yallalie

|Western Australia

|Australia

|12

|83.6–89.8

|

Zapadnaya

|Zhytomyr

|Ukraine

|3.2

|165 ± 5

|

Zeleny Gai

|Kirovograd

|Ukraine

|3.5

|60–100

|

North Pole Dome

|Eastern Pilbara Craton

|Western Australia

|Possibly ≥100

|~3469{{Cite journal |last=Kirkland |first=Christopher L. |last2=Johnson |first2=Tim E. |last3=Kaempf |first3=Jonas |last4=Ribeiro |first4=Bruno V. |last5=Zametzer |first5=Andreas |last6=Smithies |first6=R. Hugh |last7=McDonald |first7=Brad |date=2025-03-06 |title=A Paleoarchaean impact crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-57558-3 |journal=Nature Communications |language=en |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=2224 |doi=10.1038/s41467-025-57558-3 |issn=2041-1723|pmc=11885519 }}

|21°02'54.0"S 119°23'35.0"E

Inferred impact events

Some impact events are only known from events like layers of spherules or tektites generated by the impact recorded in contemporary rocks, and their impact structures may no longer exist.

class="wikitable sortable"

!Name

!Location

!Country

!Diameter (km)

!Age (million years)

!Coordinates

Eltanin impact

|Southern Ocean

|Bellingshausen Sea southwest of Chile (layer of unmelted and melted meteoritic debris found in deep sea cores)

|none

|2.5{{cite journal|last=Goff|first=James|author2=Catherine Chagué-Goff |author3=Michael Archer |author4=Dale Dominey-Howes |author5=Chris Turney |authorlink5 = Chris Turney|date=3 September 2012|title=The Eltanin asteroid impact: possible South Pacific palaeomegatsunami footprint and potential implications for the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition|journal=Journal of Quaternary Science|volume=27|issue=7|pages=660|publisher=Wiley|issn=0267-8179|doi=10.1002/jqs.2571|bibcode = 2012JQS....27..660G |s2cid=131415717 }}

|{{coord|57|47|S|90|47|W

}

|-

|Australasian strewnfield

|Unknown (likely Southeast Asia)

|Unknown

|Unknown, possibly ~15{{Cite journal |last1=Sieh |first1=Kerry |last2=Herrin |first2=Jason |last3=Jicha |first3=Brian |last4=Schonwalder Angel |first4=Dayana |last5=Moore |first5=James D. P. |last6=Banerjee |first6=Paramesh |last7=Wiwegwin |first7=Weerachat |last8=Sihavong |first8=Vanpheng |last9=Singer |first9=Brad |last10=Chualaowanich |first10=Tawachai |last11=Charusiri |first11=Punya |date=2020-01-21 |title=Australasian impact crater buried under the Bolaven volcanic field, Southern Laos |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=117 |issue=3 |pages=1346–1353 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1904368116 |doi-access=free |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=6983392 |pmid=31889003|bibcode=2020PNAS..117.1346S }}

|0.788{{Cite journal |last1=Jourdan |first1=F. |last2=Nomade |first2=S. |last3=Wingate |first3=M.T. |last4=Eroglu |first4=E. |last5=Deino |first5=A. |date=2019 |title=Ultraprecise age and formation temperature of the Australasian tektites constrained by 40Ar/39Ar analyses |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maps.13305 |journal=Geological Society of America Bulletin |language=en |volume=54 |issue=10 |pages=2573–2591 |doi=10.1111/maps.13305 |bibcode= |issn=1086-9379}}

| rowspan="19" |N/A

|-

|Nuussuaq (Disko) spherule bed

|Unknown

|Unknown (spherule bed found in Nuussuaq Peninsula, Western Greenland)

|Unknown

|~61-62{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=A.P. |last2=Kearsley |first2=A.T. |last3=Friend |first3=C.R.L. |last4=Robin |first4=E. |last5=Beard |first5=A. |last6= Tamura |first6=A. |last7=Trickett |first7=S. |last8=Claeys |first8=P. |title= Large Meteorite Impacts III |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241091064 |publisher=Geological Society of America |location=Boulder, Colorado |page=281-298 |date=2005 |chapter=Are there signs of a large Palaeocene impact, preserved around Disko bay, Greenland- Nuussuaq spherule beds origin by impact instead of volcanic eruption? |isbn=978-0-81372-384-6}}

|-

|Qidong spherule bed

|Unknown

|Unknown (spherule bed found near Qidong, Hunan, China)

|Unknown

|~374

|-

|Senzeilles (Hony) microtektite bed

|Unknown

|Unknown (microtektite bed found in Belgium)

|Unknown

|~376{{cite book |title=Distal Impact Ejecta Layers: A Record of Large Impacts in Sedimentary Deposits |publisher=Springer-Verlag |editor-last1=Glass |editor-first1=B.P. |editor-last2=Simonson |editor-first2=B.M. |year=2013 |location= Berlin Heidelberg, Germany |page=716 |isbn= 978-3-540-88261-9 | edition=1st }}{{cite book |last1=Claey |first1=P. |last2=Kyte |first2=A. |last3=Herbosch |first3=A. |last4=Casier |first4=J.G.|title= The Cretaceous-Tertiary Event and Other Catastrophes in Earth History |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258028295 |publisher=Geological Society of America |location=Boulder, Colorado |page=491-504 |date=1996 |chapter= Geochemistry of the Frasnian-Famennian boundary in Belgium: Mass extinction, anoxic oceans and microtektite layer, but not much iridium |isbn=978-0-81372-307-5 }}

|-

|Osmussaar breccia

|eastern Gulf of Finland region

|Unknown (breccia layer found in Estonia)

|Unknown

|~466{{Cite journal |last1=Alwmark |first1=C. |last2=Schmitz |first2=B. |last3=Kirsimäe |first3=K. |date=2010 |title=The mid-Ordovician Osmussaar breccia in Estonia linked to the disruption of the L-chondrite parent body in the asteroid belt |url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-abstract/122/7-8/1039/125541/The-mid-Ordovician-Osmussaar-breccia-in-Estonia |journal=Geological Society of America Bulletin |language=en |volume=122 |issue=7–8 |pages=1039–1046 |doi=10.1130/B30040.1 |bibcode= 2010GSAB..122.1039A|issn= 0016-7606}}

|-

|Vakkejokk Breccia

|Northern Scandinavia

|Likely northern Sweden (proximal ejecta layer found in the North-Swedish Caledonides)

|Around 4-5

|~520{{Cite journal |last1=Alwmark |first1=Carl |last2=Ormö |first2=Jens |last3=Nielsen |first3=Arne T. |date=March 2019 |title=Shocked quartz grains in the early Cambrian Vakkejokk Breccia, Sweden—Evidence of a marine impact |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.13230 |journal=Meteoritics & Planetary Science |language=en |volume=54 |issue=3 |pages=609–620 |doi=10.1111/maps.13230 |bibcode=2019M&PS...54..609A |issn=1086-9379}}

|-

|Kitkiöjärvi impact melt

|Northern Scandinavia

|Likely either northern Sweden or northern Finland (impact melt rock found in glacial deposits in gravel pit)

|Unknown

|658.9 ± 6.9{{Cite journal |last1=Alwmark |first1=C. |last2=Kenny |first2=G.G. |last3=Alwmark |first3=S. |last4=Minde |first4=P. |last5=Plado |first5=P. |last6=Hietala |first6=S. |last7=Whitehouse |first7=M.J. |date=2024 |title= Cryogenian impact structure lurking in the shadows of northern Sweden |url= https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maps.14280 |journal=Meteoritics & Planetary Science |language=en |volume=59 |issue=12 |pages=3305–3321 |doi=10.1111/maps.14280 |bibcode= 2024M&PS...59.3305A|issn=1086-9379|doi-access=free }}

|-

|Unnamed

|Northern Greenland

|Denmark (impact melt rock found in glaciofluvial deposits in Inglefield Land, Greenland)

|Unknown

|1039 ± 16{{Cite journal |last1=Hyde |first1=William R. |last2=Kenny |first2=Gavin G. |last3=Jaret |first3=Steven J. |last4=MacGregor |first4=Joseph A. |last5=Beck |first5=Pierre |last6=Whitehouse |first6=Martin J. |last7=Larsen |first7=Nicolaj K. |date=2024-07-01 |title=Evidence for ca. 1 Ga hypervelocity impact event found in northwest Greenland |journal=Geology |language=en |volume=52 |issue=7 |pages=517–521 |doi=10.1130/G51876.1 |bibcode=2024Geo....52..517H |issn=0091-7613|doi-access=free }}

|-

|Stac Fada Member

|Scotland

|Scotland (proximal ejecta layer found in Scotland)

|Likely around 13-14

|990 ± 20{{Cite journal |last=Kirkland |first=C.L. |last2=Erickson |first2=T.M. |last3=Johnson |first3=T.E. |last4=Prave |first4=T. |last5=Strachan |first5=R.A. |last6=Daggitt |first6=M.L. |last7=Hartnady |first7=M.I.H. |last8=Reddy |first8=S.M. |last9=Taylor |first9=R.J.M. |last10=Ribeiro |first10=B.V. |last11=Rankenburg |first11=K. |last12=Kirscher |first12=U. |last13=Fischer |first13=S. |date=2025-04-28 |title=A one-billion-year-old Scottish meteorite impact |url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G53121.1/653703/A-one-billion-year-old-Scottish-meteorite-impact |journal=Geology |language=en |doi=10.1130/G53121.1 |issn=0091-7613}}

|-

|Paraburdoo-Reivilo spherule bed

| rowspan="10" |Unknown

|rowspan="3" |Unknown (spherule beds found in South Africa and Australia{{Cite journal |last1=Koeberl |first1=Christian |last2=Schulz |first2=Toni |last3=Huber |first3=Matthew S. |date=2024-09-01 |title=Precambrian impact structures and ejecta on earth: A review |journal=Precambrian Research |language=en |volume=411 |pages=107511 |doi=10.1016/j.precamres.2024.107511|bibcode=2024PreR..41107511K |doi-access=free }})

|rowspan="2" |Unknown

|~2570{{cite book |title=Distal Impact Ejecta Layers: A Record of Large Impacts in Sedimentary Deposits |publisher=Springer-Verlag |editor-last1=Glass |editor-first1=B.P. |editor-last2=Simonson |editor-first2=B.M. |year=2013 |location= Berlin Heidelberg, Germany |page=716 |isbn= 978-3-540-88261-9 | edition=1st }}

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|Monteville-Carawine-Jeerinah spherule bed

|~2630

|-

|S1-Warrawoona spherule bed

|Likely in the range of 400-1000

|~3472

|-

|S2 spherule bed

| rowspan="7" |Unknown (spherule beds found in South Africa)

|Estimated to be around 500{{Cite web |date=2024-10-21 |title=S2 meteorite: What happened when a rock as big as London hit Earth? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g4g455p8lo |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

|~3260{{Cite journal |last1=Drabon |first1=Nadja |last2=Knoll |first2=Andrew H. |last3=Lowe |first3=Donald R. |last4=Bernasconi |first4=Stefano M. |last5=Brenner |first5=Alec R. |last6=Mucciarone |first6=David A. |date=2024-10-29 |title=Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean surface environments and life |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=121 |issue=44 |pages=e2408721121 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2408721121 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=11536127 |pmid=39432780}}

|-

|S3 spherule bed

| rowspan="6" |Likely in the range of 400-1000{{Cite journal |last1=Lowe |first1=Donald R. |last2=Byerly |first2=Gary R. |date=April 2018 |title=The terrestrial record of Late Heavy Bombardment |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1387647317300714 |journal=New Astronomy Reviews |language=en |volume=81 |pages=39–61 |doi=10.1016/j.newar.2018.03.002|bibcode=2018NewAR..81...39L }}

|~3243{{Cite journal |last1=Lowe |first1=Donald R. |last2=Byerly |first2=Gary R. |date=2024-09-11 |title=Geology of the Eastern Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: Early Deformation and the Role of Large Meteor Impacts |url=https://ajsonline.org/article/122938-geology-of-the-eastern-barberton-greenstone-belt-south-africa-early-deformation-and-the-role-of-large-meteor-impacts |journal=American Journal of Science |language=en |volume=324 |page=12 |doi=10.2475/001c.122938 |bibcode=2024AmJSc.324...12L |issn=1945-452X}}

|-

|S4 spherule bed

|~3240{{Cite journal |last1=Ozdemir |first1=Seda |last2=Schulz |first2=Toni |last3=Koeberl |first3=Christian |last4=Reimold |first4=Wolf Uwe |last5=Mohr-Westheide |first5=Tanja |last6=Hoehnel |first6=Desiree |last7=Schmitt |first7=Ralf Thomas |date=December 2017 |title=Early Archean spherule layers from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: Mineralogy and geochemistry of the spherule beds in the CT 3 drill core |journal=Meteoritics & Planetary Science |language=en |volume=52 |issue=12 |pages=2586–2631 |doi=10.1111/maps.12998 |bibcode=2017M&PS...52.2586O |issn=1086-9379|doi-access=free }}

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|S5 spherule bed

|~3225

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|S6 spherule bed

|~3256

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|S7 spherule bed

|~3416

|-

|S8 spherule bed

|~3298

|}

Sublists and statistics of impact structures by continent

{{As of|2022}}, the Earth Impact Database (EID) contains 190 confirmed impact structures. The table below is arranged by the continent's percentage of the Earth's land area, and where Asian and Russian structures are grouped together per EID convention. The global distribution of known impact structures apparently shows a surprising asymmetry,Prezzi, Claudia B.; Orgeira, María Julia; Acevedo, Rogelio D.; Ponce, Juan Federico; Martinez, Oscar; Rabassa, Jorge O.; Corbella, Hugo; Vásquez, Carlos; González-Guillot, Mauricio; Subías, Ignacio; (2011); [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012PEPI..192...21P "Geophysical characterization of two circular structures at Bajada del Diablo (Patagonia, Argentina): Indication of impact origin"], Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, vol. 192, pp. 21–34 with the small but well-funded European continent having a large percentage of confirmed impact structures. It is suggested this situation is an artifact, highlighting the importance of intensifying research in less studied areas like Antarctica, South America and elsewhere.

Links in the column "Continent" will give a list of craters for that continent.

class ="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto;text-align:right"
ContinentContinent's %
of Earth's
land area		Continent's %
of the 190
known impact structures		Number
of impact structures
Asia and Russia30%16%31
Africa20%11%20
North America16%32%60
South America12%6%11
Antarctica9%0%1
Europe7%22%41
Australia6%14%27
Total100%100%190

See also

References

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Further reading

  • {{Cite book |editor1=Flamini, Enrico |editor2=Di Martino, Mario |editor3=Coletta, Alessandro| title=Encyclopedic Atlas of Terrestrial Impact Craters | publisher=Springer | year=2019 | location=Cham, Switzerland | isbn=978-3-030-05449-6}}
  • Grieve, Wood, Garvin, McLaughlin, McHone, Jr. (1988) [https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/contribution_docs/TR/TR_8803.pdf Astronaut’s Guidebook to Terrestrial Impact Craters] Technical Report 88-03 Lunar and Planetary Institute

External links

  • [http://impacts.rajmon.cz Impact Database] (formerly Suspected Earth Impact Sites list) maintained by David Rajmon for [https://web.archive.org/web/20140816123552/http://web.eps.utk.edu/~faculty/ifsg.htm Impact Field Studies Group], US
  • [http://impact.scaredycatfilms.com/ Impact Meteor Crater Viewer] Google Maps Page with Locations of Meteor Craters around the world
  • [https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/analogs/impactcraters/ Impact Craters] at Lunar and Planetary Institute

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