Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A scar on the earth's surface left from the impact of a meteorite.
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- noun geology A
pit -like structure created by animpacting meteoroid ,asteroid orcomet .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Another earthquake spot is on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, most interestingly just in a large meteorite impact structure ( "astrobleme") called Charlevoix.
Signs of the Times 2009
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Vredefort Dome, some 120 km southwest of Johannesburg and covering 30,111 ha, is a representative part of a larger meteorite impact structure (or astrobleme), which has a radius of impact of 190 km.
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A comprehensive comparative analysis with other complex meteorite impact structures demonstrated that it is the oldest, the largest and the only example on earth providing a full geological profile of an astrobleme below the crater floor, thereby enabling research into the genesis and development of an astrobleme immediately post impact.
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It provides the only mappable and restorable profile that illustrates the genesis and development of an astrobleme during the very short time after impact.
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Only one astrobleme in Europe fit the description, a crater called the Ries that lay some 300 kilometers to the east, on the northern shore of the Danube River.
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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The structure called the Ries (or Rieskessel) is the subject of some controversy-one school of thought accepting it as an astrobleme, while another holds it to be the result of a cryptovolcanic explosion that brought to the surface "meteoritelike" materials.
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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Thus at the final crash, most of those meteoroids fell as one body, to form that gigantic astrobleme.
The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978
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Her birth country lay not far inland, though sheltered from northerly winds and easterly waters -- the Kazan, Cauldron, huge astrobleme on the continent Rodna, a bowl filled with woods, farmlands, rivers, at its middle Lake Stoyan and the capital Zorkagrad.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974
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Dating back 2,023 million years, it is the oldest astrobleme found on earth so far, with a radius of 190km, it is also the most deeply eroded.
Signs of the Times 2009
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It is the world’s only structurally intact exposure of the basement, below the crater floor, of a very large astrobleme.
she commented on the word astrobleme
Beautiful etymological underpinnings: Greek ástron + blêma, "starwound"
July 12, 2008
qms commented on the word astrobleme
The Yucatan narrates the birth
Of changes for old Mother Earth.
The pastoral scene
Hides a vast astrobeme,
The secret to dinosaur dearth.
For a description of the Chicxulub crater and its relation to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, see
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater
May 26, 2017
bilby commented on the word astrobleme
I have a black eye and some cuts on my face after being hit by a football at the Australasian Gaelic Games finals last Sunday, so I'm calling it an astrobleme.
October 11, 2017
qms commented on the word astrobleme
The Irish, my ancestral race,
Play ball at a furious pace.
They kick and they dribble
But, sure, there’s no quibble -
You don’t catch the ball with your face.
October 11, 2017
bilby commented on the word astrobleme
See, for pettiness' sake, solo: third verbal sense under Wiktionary.
October 12, 2017
qms commented on the word astrobleme
Alas, there’s no foe to be blamed,
No noble defense to be claimed.
A player defaced
By a solo misplaced
Abjectly admits he’s self-maimed.
October 13, 2017