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The Sudbury Structure is the oldest and largest impact structure in North America, and is situated in Ontario in a unique geotectonic setting between the Archean-age (>2.5 Ga) Superior Geologic (to west and north) and the Proterozoic-age (>1.9 Ga) Southern Geologic (to west, south, and east).
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Flamini, E., Coletta, A., Battagliere, M.L., Virelli, M. (2019). Sudbury, Canada. In: Flamini, E., Di Martino, M., Coletta, A. (eds) Encyclopedic Atlas of Terrestrial Impact Craters. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05451-9_172
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