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First visited in early 1950s and locally known as Daïat el Maadna, Talemzane is a simple circular bowl-shaped impact crater 1750 m wide with a 70-m raised rim. It is emplaced in nearly horizontal beds of Senonian or Eocene limestone; its wall shows outward-dipping beds of limestone, which are nearly vertical at the top of the rim.
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Di Martino, M., Coletta, A., Battagliere, M.L., Virelli, M. (2019). Talemzane, Algeria. 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_21
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