Rotmistrovka crater

Rotmistrovka is a meteorite crater (astrobleme) in Ukraine (Cherkasy Oblast).

The crater is 2.7 km in diameter, with an age estimated at 120 ± 10 million years (Lower Cretaceous). It is not exposed to the surface, being buried beneath continental and marine sedimentary deposits. The crater contains a brecciated lens of granite fragments and particles of impact glass, overlain by shales, limestones and granite-derived sandstones of lower Cretaceous age.

External links

* [http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/images/rotmistrovka.htm Earth Impact Database]