Putative Meteoritic Craters in Río Cuarto (Central Argentina) Interpreted as Eolian Structures
Abstract
Ten oblong aligned depressions in the Río Cuarto area (provincia de Córdoba, Argentina) were supposed to be the result of very-low-angle Holocene meteoroid impacts. However, we consider that authors that studied the structures did not demonstrated their extraterrestrial origin. We suggest that an eolian origin for the structures of Río Cuarto is more likely. Actually, these landforms integrate large systems of similar deflation/accumulation geoforms aligned according to predominant winds during different periods.
- Publication:
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Earth Moon and Planets
- Pub Date:
- September 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1023/A:1021209417252
- Bibcode:
- 2002EM&P...91....9C
- Keywords:
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- Argentina;
- crater;
- deflation basin;
- meteorite;
- Río Cuarto;
- South America