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Rochechouart crater
Rochechouart is a meteor crater in France.
It is 23 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 214 ± 8 million years. The crater is exposed to the surface.
It is located 4 km west of Rochechouart, in the Haute-Vienne département, and covers part of the communes and villages of Rochechouart, Chaillac , Étagnac , Pressignac , Saint-Quentin, Chéronnac , Chassenon and Chabanais .
External links
- The Rochechouart impact crater, at virtual-geology.info
- Rochechouart impactite gallery, at meteoritearticles.com
- The Rochechouart impact rocks, at impact-structures.com
- Structural investigations and numerical modelling
- The theoretically possible age-values of the impact crater
- Rochechouart redécouvre son cratère (in French)
- Une catastrophe écologique au temps des dinosaures (in French)
- L'impact de la météorite de Rochechouart (in French)
- Rochechouart, un site géologique exceptionnel (in French)
- Association "Pierre de lune" - manages a permanent exhibition about the crater (in French)
- Earth Impact Database
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