Sobolev -

Alternate Names
Local Language
Coordinates 46° 17' 60" N; 137° 52' 0" E
Country Russia
Region Primorye
Date Confirmed 1978
Buried? No
Drilled? Yes
Target Type Mixed
Sub-Type Granitoid, Sedimentary, Volcanics
Apparent Crater Diameter (km) 53 m
Age (Ma) 0.00015 - 0.00020
Notes :
  1. The position of the crater relative to the adjacent stream beds and the humus breakdown on the breccia indicate that the crater is 150 to 200 years old (Khyranina, 1987).

Method :
  1. Stratigraphy
Impactor Type Iron

Advanced Data Fields

Notes

Erosion
2
Final Rim Diameter
53 m
Thickness of Seds
Target Age

References

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V A Yarmolyuk (1951) Sobolevskiy crater, Priroda 6, p. 40-42

L P Khryanina (1980) Evidence of meteorite shock in Sobolev Crater, Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR. Seriya Geologicheskaya 1980(11), p. 32-40, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Moscow

L P Khryanina (1981) Sobolevskiy meteorite crater (Sikhote-Alin' Range), International Geology Review 23, p. 1-10, url

G Komatsu, A Coletta, M L Battagliere, M Virelli (2019) Sobolev, Russia, Encyclopedic Atlas of Terrestrial Impact Craters, p. 201-202, Springer, Cham, url, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05451-9_50