Dobele Crater

Dobele crater

Dobele crater Location of Dobele crater in Latvia
Impact crater/structure
Confidence	Confirmed
Diameter	4.5 km (2.8 mi)
Age	290 ± 35 Ma Late Carboniferous to Late Permian
Exposed	No
Drilled	Yes
Location
Location	Dobele
Coordinates	Coordinates: 56°35′N 23°15′E / 56.583°N 23.25°E / 56.583; 23.25
Country	Latvia

Dobele crater is an impact crater in central Latvia. The town of Dobele is built over the site of the crater.^[1]

It is 4.5 km (2.8 mi) in diameter and the age is estimated to be 290 ± 35 million years (Cisuralian epoch of the Permian period). The impact structure is buried and is not visible.

References

Further reading

• A. Abels. J. Plado Lehtinen. 2002 The Impact Cratering Record of Fennoscandia - A Close Look at the DatabaseSpringer, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany (DEU)

External links

• Masaitis, V.L. 1999 Impact structures of northeastern Eurasia: the territories of Russia and adjacent countries, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, v. 34, p. 691-711

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