Rotmistrovka crater
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Rotmistrovka is a meteorite crater (astrobleme) in Ukraine (Cherkasy Oblast).
The crater is 2.7 km in diameter, with an age estimated at 120 ± 10 million years (Lower Cretaceous). It is not exposed to the surface, being buried beneath continental and marine sedimentary deposits. The crater contains a brecciated lens of granite fragments and particles of impact glass, overlain by shales, limestones and granite-derived sandstones of lower Cretaceous age.
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