GEOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE FOR AN IMPACT CRATER IN VICHADA, NORTHWESTERN SOUTH AMERICA AND ITS ECONOMIC POTENTIAL
A prominent positive free-air gravity anomaly mapped over a roughly 50-km diameter basin is consistent with a mascon centered on (4°30'N, -69°15'W) in the Vichada Department, Colombia, South America. The inferred impact crater is nearly one third the size of the Chicxulub Crater. It must h...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2009-12-01
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Series: | Earth Sciences Research Journal |
Online Access: | http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/esrj/article/view/21104 |