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First noticed by air for the peculiar alignment of a number of elongated depressions along a line 30–40 km long in the otherwise smooth Argentinian Pampas, the Rio Cuarto is named after the city that lies a couple of 10 kms to SSW (Hodge 1994).
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Staffieri, S., Coletta, A., Battagliere, M.L., Virelli, M. (2019). Rio Cuarto, Argentina. 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_187
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