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The particularity of the Suavjärvi structure is that the evaluation of its age attests it as the oldest extraterrestrial impact scar known on the Earth. Its breccia is overlain by basal conglomerates of the Jatulian formation whose age is evaluated to be about 2300 Ma.

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  • Mashchak, M. S., & Naumov, M. V. (1996). The Suavjarvi structure: An early proterozoic impact site on the Fennoscandian Shield. Lunar and Planetary Science, XXVII, 825–826.

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Komatsu, G., Coletta, A., Battagliere, M.L., Virelli, M. (2019). Suavjärvi, Russia. 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_52

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