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Impact Craters in South America

Authors:

  1. Rogelio Daniel Acevedo

    1. Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET), Bernardo A. Houssay 200, Ushuaia, Argentina

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  2. Maximiliano C. L. Rocca

    1. The Planetary Society, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  3. Juan Federico Ponce

    1. Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET), Bernardo A. Houssay 200, Ushuaia, (V9410CAB) Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

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  4. Sergio G. Stinco

    1. The Planetary Society, Neuquén, Argentina

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  • Unique catalogue of impact craters in South America
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences (BRIEFSEARTHSYST)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C. L. Rocca, Juan Federico Ponce, Sergio G. Stinco
    Pages 1-5

  3. Argentina

    • Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C. L. Rocca, Juan Federico Ponce, Sergio G. Stinco
    Pages 7-40

  4. Bolivia

    • Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C. L. Rocca, Juan Federico Ponce, Sergio G. Stinco
    Pages 41-44

  5. Brazil

    • Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C. L. Rocca, Juan Federico Ponce, Sergio G. Stinco
    Pages 45-62

  6. Chile

    • Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C. L. Rocca, Juan Federico Ponce, Sergio G. Stinco
    Pages 63-67

  7. Colombia

    • Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C. L. Rocca, Juan Federico Ponce, Sergio G. Stinco
    Pages 69-72

  8. Paraguay

    • Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C. L. Rocca, Juan Federico Ponce, Sergio G. Stinco
    Pages 73-76

  9. Perú

    • Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C. L. Rocca, Juan Federico Ponce, Sergio G. Stinco
    Pages 77-79

  10. Uruguay

    • Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C. L. Rocca, Juan Federico Ponce, Sergio G. Stinco
    Pages 81-83

  11. Venezuela

    • Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C. L. Rocca, Juan Federico Ponce, Sergio G. Stinco
    Pages 85-87

  12. The Guianas

    • Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C. L. Rocca, Juan Federico Ponce, Sergio G. Stinco
    Pages 89-92

  13. South Pacific Ocean Eltanin (57° 52′ S, 90° 57′ W)

    • Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C. L. Rocca, Juan Federico Ponce, Sergio G. Stinco
    Pages 93-94

  14. Astroblemes-Wrong (Structures that Resemble Astroblemes but They Are Not)

    • Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C. L. Rocca, Juan Federico Ponce, Sergio G. Stinco
    Pages 95-99

  15. Final Remarks

    • Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C. L. Rocca, Juan Federico Ponce, Sergio G. Stinco
    Pages 101-102

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 103-104
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About this book

A complete and updated catalogue of impact craters and structures in South America from 2014 is presented here. Approximately eighty proven, suspected and disproven structures have been identified by several sources in this continent. All the impact sites of this large continent have been exhaustively reviewed: the proved ones, the possible ones and some very doubtful. Many sites remain without a clear geological "in situ" confirmation and some of them could be even rejected. Argentina and Brazil are leading the list containing almost everything detected. In Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay and Venezuela only a few were observed. Only Ecuador is waiting for new discoveries. So far, the largest well stated impact site is still the Araguainha structure in Brazil with its 40 kilometers in diameter. However, two possible impact structures are larger than Araguainha: Malvinas, (with 250 kilometers in diameter) and Vichada in Colombia, (50 kilometers). This study also reports the existence of some Tertiary-Quaternary glassy impactite layers: the "escorias" and "tierras cocidas" of the pampas in Argentina.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET), Bernardo A. Houssay 200, Ushuaia, Argentina

    Rogelio Daniel Acevedo

  • The Planetary Society, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Maximiliano C. L. Rocca

  • Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET), Bernardo A. Houssay 200, Ushuaia, (V9410CAB) Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

    Juan Federico Ponce

  • The Planetary Society, Neuquén, Argentina

    Sergio G. Stinco

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Impact Craters in South America

  • Authors: Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C. L. Rocca, Juan Federico Ponce, Sergio G. Stinco

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13093-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-13092-7Published: 06 May 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-13093-4Published: 25 April 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2191-589X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2191-5903

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 104

  • Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Geomorphology, Planetology, Geology

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