Aouelloul crater
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Aouelloul is an impact crater
in Mauritania
.
It is 390 metres wide and the age is estimated to be 3.0 ± 0.3 million years (Pliocene
). The crater is exposed at the surface.
Impact crater
In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...
in Mauritania
Mauritania
Mauritania is a country in the Maghreb and West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest...
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It is 390 metres wide and the age is estimated to be 3.0 ± 0.3 million years (Pliocene
Pliocene
The Pliocene Epoch is the period in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.332 million to 2.588 million years before present. It is the second and youngest epoch of the Neogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Pliocene follows the Miocene Epoch and is followed by the Pleistocene Epoch...
). The crater is exposed at the surface.