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Th e Vredefort impact structure is enormous! In fact, it is so big (hundreds of kilometres in diameter) that it is not as readily revealed to the casual visitor as much smaller craters such as Tswaing (Fig. 48).
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Reimold, W.U., Gibson, R.L. (2010). Vredefort: The Largest and Oldest Impact Structure in the World. In: Meteorite Impact!., vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10464-0_4
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