Dobele crater is an
impact crater in central
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...
. The town of
Dobele is built over the site of the crater.
It is in diameter and the age is estimated to be 290 ± 35 million years (
Cisuralian
The Cisuralian is the first Series (stratigraphy), series/Epoch (geology), epoch of the Permian. The Cisuralian was preceded by the Pennsylvanian (geology), Pennsylvanian and followed by the Guadalupian. The Cisuralian Epoch is named after the w ...
epoch of the
Permian
The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.9 Mya. It is the last period of the Paleoz ...
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
Dobele
Impact craters of Latvia
Carboniferous impact craters
Permian impact craters
Geology of Latvia
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