Dobele crater | |
Location: | Dobele |
Map: | Latvia |
Confidence: | Confirmed |
Diameter: | 4.5km (02.8miles) |
Age: | 290 ± 35 Ma Late Carboniferous to Late Permian |
Exposed: | No |
Drilled: | Yes |
Country: | Latvia |
Dobele crater is an impact crater in Latvia under the town of Dobele. The crater is not exposed at the surface. It is 4.5km (02.8miles) in diameter and estimated to be 290 ± 35 million years old (Cisuralian epoch of the Permian period).[1] [2]
Masaitis, V.L. (1999), Impact structures of northeastern Eurasia: the territories of Russia and adjacent countries, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, v. 34, p. 691-711