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The Wetumpka structure located in Alabama is a topographically prominent, semi-circular, rimmed feature, composed of relatively high-indurated crystalline rock, forming the rim, and an unconsolidated melange of broken Upper Cretaceous sedimentary formations within and directly outside its crystalline rim on the southern side.
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Flamini, E., Coletta, A., Battagliere, M.L., Virelli, M. (2019). Wetumpka, USA. In: Flamini, E., Di Martino, M., Coletta, A. (eds) Encyclopedic Atlas of Terrestrial Impact Craters. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05451-9_179
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