Vepriai crater

Vepriai crater
Alleged boundaries of the crater are marked by a dotted line
Impact crater/structure
Confidence	Confirmed
Diameter	8 km (5.0 mi)
Age	160 ± 10 Ma Mid or Late Jurassic
Exposed	No
Drilled	Yes
Location
Location	Vepriai
Coordinates	55°08′N 24°35′E / 55.14°N 24.59°E / 55.14; 24.59
Country	Lithuania
Location of Vepriai crater in Lithuania

Vepriai is the largest

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Vepriai crater is 8 km (5.0 mi) in diameter and its age is estimated to be greater than 160 ± 10 million years (Middle or Late Jurassic). The meteorite struck soft sandstone and limestone rocks thus its initial depth exceeded 500 m (1,600 ft) but the site was soon covered by sedimentary rocks, sand and clay. A small lake has formed in the Jurassic in the impact site.^[1]

The crater was reported in 1978, as proven by occurrence of

in drill-core samples acquired during a geophysical research of the locality.

References

Further reading

• (in Russian) Masaitis, V. L., Danilin, A.N., Maschak, M.S., Raykhlin, A.I., Selivanovskaya, T.V. and Shadenkov,Ye.M., The Geology of Astroblemes.
  Leningrad
  , Nedra, 231 p. 1980
• (in Lithuanian) Motuza, G. B., Gailius, R. P., On presumed astroblemes of Latvia (abstract). 7th Annual Conference of the Committee on Tectonics of Belarus and the Baltic Area, Vilnius, pp. 91–94. 1978
• (in English) Henning Dypvik1 et al., Impact structures and events - A Nordic perspective, Episodes, vol. 31 No. 1, March 2008 (PDF)

External links

• More information about Vepriai impact crater