Rotmistrivka crater | |
Confidence: | Confirmed |
Age: | 120 ± 10 Ma |
Exposed: | No |
Drilled: | Yes |
Country: | Ukraine |
District: | Smila |
Municipality: | Rotmistrivka |
Rotmistrivka is an impact crater in Ukraine (Cherkasy Oblast) which is Located near the village Rotmistrivka of Smila district.
The crater is 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.[1]