METEORITE IMPACT CRATERS AND EJECTA IN SOUTH AMERICA: A BRIEF REVIEW

The fi rst catalogue of impact craters sites in South America is presented here. Proximately thirty proven, suspected and disproven structures have been identifi ed by several sources in this continent until now. But everyone events proposed here

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