Impact Crater GKCF13 RAHMAN

Libya / al-Kufrah /
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meterorite impact crater, size 950m Diameter, one of at least 13 similar impact craters in the area, covering more than 4500 km², shock-related structures such as shatter cones and planar fractures in quartz grains of breccia can be seen; considering the extension of the crater field, it was possibly created by several meteorites that broke up when entering the atmosphere.
see also: research by Phillippe Paillou, www.sciencedirect.com
sorry for the bad quality of the foto: I had to digitalize one of my paperfotos.
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Coordinates:   23°18'3"N   26°55'33"E
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