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A bowl-shaped depression has been dismissed as of impact origin because it is undoubtedly a glacial cirque. Its diameter is 1 km and its depth, 200 m. The geology is composed of rhyolites and rhyodacites of the Lemaire Formation (Jurassic).
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Acevedo, R.D., Rocca, M.C.L., Ponce, J.F., Stinco, S.G. (2015). Astroblemes-Wrong (Structures that Resemble Astroblemes but They Are Not). In: Impact Craters in South America. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13093-4_13
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