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The depression has a topographic rim 25–30 m high, while the centre displays a slight circular rise about 1 km in diameter and 5 m high exposing strongly deformed and steeply dipping bedrock interpreted as a central uplift.
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Connolly Basin impact structure, Western Australia. In: Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XX, Abstracts p. 1008-1009.
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Shoemaker E.M. & Shoemaker C.S. 1986. Connolly Basin: a probable eroded impact crater in
Western Australia. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XVII, Abstracts, p. 797-798.
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Shoemaker E.M., Plescia J.B., Shoemaker C.S. 2001. Connolly Basin Impact
Structure, Western Australia. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXII, Abstract no. 1311.
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Shoemaker E.M. & Shoemaker C.S. 1985. Impact structures of
Western Australia. 48th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Abstracts. Meteoritics 20, 754-756.
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image draped over digital elevation data (x10 vertical exaggeration), Connolly Basin crater (circular depression in centre); screen capture from
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951:Lunar and Planetary Institute
783:Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary
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989:Paleocene impact craters
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530:Confirmed≥20 km diameter
223:is a 9 km-diameter
833:Ordovician meteor event
63:9 km (5.6 mi)
47:Impact crater/structure
936:Eugene Merle Shoemaker
813:Late Heavy Bombardment
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979:Earth Impact Database
957:Traces of Catastrophe
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889:Ralph Belknap Baldwin
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291:age, all part of the
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853:Shock metamorphism
758:Alvarez hypothesis
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277:Sedimentary rocks
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697:Siljan Ring
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612:Keurusselkä
255:Description
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122:Coordinates
973:Categories
863:Stishovite
763:Australite
742:Yarrabubba
712:Strangways
672:Presqu'île
647:Montagnais
617:Lappajärvi
567:Charlevoix
552:Beaverhead
547:Araguainha
501:By country
471:Antarctica
336:2009-08-19
307:References
285:Palaeogene
281:Cretaceous
135:124°45.4′E
52:Confidence
828:Moldavite
823:Meteorite
808:Impactite
737:Woodleigh
732:Vredefort
692:Shoemaker
652:Morokweng
637:Mistastin
577:Chicxulub
481:Australia
461:Worldwide
301:Paleogene
297:Paleocene
249:salt dome
164:Australia
132:23°32.3′S
84:Paleocene
81:<60 Ma
55:Confirmed
882:Research
727:Tunnunik
622:Logancha
592:Haughton
562:Carswell
506:Possible
263:Oblique
111:Location
106:Location
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662:Obolon'
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265:Landsat
160:Country
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90:Exposed
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751:Topics
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245:diapir
209:Access
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68:Depth
602:Kara
390:PDF
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