Dobele crater

Short description: Impact crater in Latvia

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

1. ↑ "Dobele". http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/New website_05-2018/Dobele.html.

## 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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