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The Jänisjärvi structure lies on the southeastern part of the Baltic Shield near the border. Its crater depression, considerably modified by glacial erosion, is occupied by a 50-m-deep roughly oval-shaped lake.
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Komatsu, G., Coletta, A., Battagliere, M.L., Virelli, M. (2019). Jänisjärvi, 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_34
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