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Impact cratering is recognized as the dominant surface-modifying process throughout the Solar System. During the last 40 years, planetary geology scientists have demonstrated that our Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all covered with asteroid/comet impact craters or related structures. However, only recently the fact that giant meteorite impact cratering is an important geologic event working on the Earth’s surface too has been accepted.
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Acevedo, R.D., Rocca, M.C.L., Ponce, J.F., Stinco, S.G. (2015). Introduction. In: Impact Craters in South America. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13093-4_1
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