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It is named after the town of Vredefort, which is near its centre. The structure's central uplift is known as the Vredefort Dome. The impact structure was formed during the Paleoproterozoic Era, 2.023 billion (± 4 million) years ago. It is the second-oldest known impact structure on Earth, after Yarrabubba.
Location Diameter (km) Age (years) Coordinates Probability Alamo bolide impact: Nevada: unknown 367 million Bow City: Alberta: 8 km 70 million Corossol: Quebec: 4 km 2.6 million Decorah crater: Iowa: 5.6
The town was established in 1876 on a farm called Visgat, on the Vredefort impact structure, the largest and oldest visible bolide impact crater in the world (with a diameter of 300 kilometres (190 mi)).
Venterskroon is home to the Vredefort Dome Information Centre. The Vredefort Dome is the center of the Vredefort impact structure. This impact structure is the world's largest, oldest, and most deeply eroded complex asteroid impact structure in the world, and has been listed by UNESCO as World Heritage Site [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Circular feature with clear ca. rim 300 m above ground level centred around the hamlet of Baw Blue Nile State: 5 km Unknown Circular Feature [6] North-Central Niger 10 km Unknown 21°21′14.56″N 9° 8′32.24″E Vélingara circular structure [7]
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[340] [341] [342] However, the source of the young (less than a million years old) and enormous Australasian strewnfield (c. 790 ka) is suggested to be a crater about 100 km (62 mi) across somewhere in Indochina, [343] [344] with Hartung and Koeberl (1994) proposing the elongated 100 km × 35 km (62 mi × 22 mi) Tonlé Sap lake in Cambodia ...