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Two thousand million years (Ma) ago a mountain-sized bolide from Space, travelling at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour, slammed into the Earth at a position approximately 120 km southwest of the present-day city of Johannesburg, in the vicinity of the present towns of Vredefort and Parys.
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Reimold, W.U., Gibson, R.L. (2010). The Early History of Earth — Impact, Volcanoes and Early Life. In: Meteorite Impact!., vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10464-0_1
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