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The Monturaqui Crater lies in the precordilleran ranges south of the Salar of Atacama and was discovered in 1962 by the examination of aerial photographs but confirmed only three years later when geologic research identified meteoritic iron shale and impact glass at the site (Hodge 1994).
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Staffieri, S., Coletta, A., Battagliere, M.L., Virelli, M. (2019). Monturaqui, Chile. 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_185
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