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Aorounga impact crater is located in the Sahara Desert, in North-central Chad. The crater is thought to be middle or upper Devonian to lower Mississippian (approximately 345–370 million years old) based on the age of the sedimentary rocks deformed by the impact.
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Koeberl, C., Reimold, W. U., Vincent, P. M., and Brandt, D. (2005). Aorounga and Gweni Fada impact structures, Chad, Central Africa: Petrology and geochemistry of target. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 40, Nr 9/10, 1455–1471.
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Di Martino, M., Coletta, A., Battagliere, M.L., Virelli, M. (2019). Aorounga, Chad. 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_8
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