Luizi crater

{{Infobox terrestrial impact site

| name = Luizi crater

| other_name = Luizi impact structure

| photo = Luizi crater.jpg

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| photo_caption = Luizi impact crater in Democratic Republic of the Congo

| map = Democratic Republic of the Congo

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| map_caption = Location of the crater in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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| age = <542 myr (basement rock age)

| confidence = Confirmed

| diameter = {{convert|17|km|mi|abbr=on}}

| exposed = Yes

| drilled = No

| country = Democratic Republic of the Congo

| province = Haut-Katanga Province

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Luizi is a meteorite impact structure that lies on the Kundelungu Plateau of Haut-Katanga province, in an underexplored region of southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.{{Cite Earth Impact DB | name = Luizi | accessdate = 2016-04-08}} The crater, ~17 kilometer in diameter, is visible from satellite imagery, and has been confirmed in 2011 by [https://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en/ludovic_ferriere Ferrière] et al.{{cite journal | url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/39/9/851/130676/The-newly-confirmed-Luizi-impact-structure?redirectedFrom=fulltext | doi=10.1130/G31990.1 | title=The newly confirmed Luizi impact structure, Democratic Republic of Congo—Insights into central uplift formation and post-impact erosion | year=2011 | last1=Ferrière | first1=Ludovic | last2=Lubala | first2=François R.T. | last3=Osinski | first3=Gordon R. | last4=Kaseti | first4=Pierre K. | journal=Geology | volume=39 | issue=9 | pages=851–854 | bibcode=2011Geo....39..851F | url-access=subscription }} as being caused by a large impact event. This complex meteorite impact crater is so far the only recognized one in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and even in the whole Central Africa.{{Cite web |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110308-meteor-impact-crater-found-confirmed-congo-ferriere-science/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-11-22 |archive-date=2011-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111111113809/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110308-meteor-impact-crater-found-confirmed-congo-ferriere-science |url-status=dead }}

The crater was initially described as a semi-circular basin by German geologist E. Grosse in 1919.E. Grosse, 1919. Grundlinien der Geologie und Petrographie des östlichen Katanga. Neues Jahrbuch Mineralogie, Geologie and Paläontologie, 42, 272–419. [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Zqs-GeLZEHAC&pg=GBS.PA272&hl=en Google Book]

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