Rochechouart crater
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Rochechouart is a meteor crater in France.
It is 23 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 214 ± 8 million years placing it in the Upper Triassic. The crater is exposed to the surface.
It is located 4 km west of Rochechouart, in the Haute-Vienne département, and covers part of the communes and villages of Rochechouart, Chaillac, Étagnac, Pressignac, Saint-Quentin, Chéronnac, Chassenon and Chabanais.
External links
- The Rochechouart impact crater, at virtual-geology.info (http://www.virtual-geology.info/eurogeol/rochech.html)
- Rochechouart impactite gallery, at meteoritearticles.com (http://www.meteoritearticles.com/colrochechouart.html)
- The Rochechouart impact rocks, at impact-structures.com (http://www.impact-structures.com/france/rouchechouart1.htm)
- Structural investigations and numerical modelling (http://www.museum.hu-berlin.de/min/forsch/forschprojects/impact/rochechouart.asp?lang=1)
- The theoretically possible age-values of the impact crater (http://www.naturics.de/tables/t_rochec.html)
- Rochechouart redécouvre son cratère (http://www.cieletespace.fr/front/default.asp?name=/front/savoir/archives/visu_article.asp?numBiblio=1522) (in French)
- Une catastrophe écologique au temps des dinosaures (http://www.brgm.fr/divers/rochecho1.htm) (in French)
- L'impact de la météorite de Rochechouart (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/groupejarc/chassenon/impact.htm) (in French)
- Rochechouart, un site géologique exceptionnel (http://membres.lycos.fr/astrojan/Robert.htm) (in French)
- Association "Pierre de lune" - manages a permanent exhibition about the crater (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierredelune/) (in French)
- Earth Impact Database (http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/)