astrobleme

as·tro·bleme

(ăs′trə-blēm′)

A scar on the earth's surface left from the impact of a meteorite.

[astro- + Greek blēma, missile, wound (from ballein, to throw; see g^welə- in Indo-European roots).]

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astrobleme

(ˈæstrəˌbliːm)

(Geological Science) a mark on the earth's surface, usually circular, formed by a large ancient meteorite impact

[C20: from astro- + Greek blēma shot, wound]

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astrobleme

- A crater caused by a meteor.

astrobleme

A mark left on the surface of the Earth by the impact of a meteorite.

Translations

astroblema

astroblème

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"You know, that kind of looks like an astrobleme" Olson told his boss, referring to an ancient meteorite crater.

The Frackers

Yallalie Crater on the western edge of the wheatbelt (Figs 1 and 3), in an area known as the West Midlands, is a 12-km-diameter astrobleme in the Perth Basin.

Modern and palaeogeographic trends in the salinisation of the Western Australian wheatbelt: a review

The Gravberg-1 superdeep borehole drilled in the Siljan astrobleme in southern Sweden reached a depth of 6.6 km and was terminated due to technical reasons (Boden and Eriksson, 1988).

Some properties and structure of the crystalline crust from superdeep drilling data (SG-3, SG-4, KTB)

The Serra da Cangaiha astrobleme as revealed by ASTER and SRTM orbital data.

Aplicacoes dos modelos de elevacao SRTM em geomorfologia

Duhamel, I., Genest, S., Robert, F., and Tremblay, A., 2004, A re-evaluation of the size of the Carswell astrobleme, Saskatchewan, Canada: 67th Annual Meteodrical Society Meeting: 5071.pdf.