Mishina Gora crater

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Template:Infobox terrestrial impact site Template:One source Mishina Gora is an impact crater in European Russia, 180 kilometres southwest of St. Petersburg.<ref name=Db>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is located in Pskov Oblast of the Northwestern Federal District.

It is Template:Convert in diameter and has been dated at 300 ± 50 Ma,<ref name=Db/> dating to the beginning of the Permian Period. The crater is exposed at the surface, but is not easily distinguishable from overhead imagery.

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Further reading

  • Shmayenok, A. I., Malakhovskiy, F. B., Explosion pipe near the southeast shore of Lake Chud' (in Russian). Vestnik Leningrad University, v. 24, pp. 97-107. 1974
  • Shmayenok, A. I., Tikhomirov, S. V., The Mishina Gora cryptoexplosion structure near Lake Chudskoye (Peipus) (in Russian). Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, v. 219, pp. 701–703. 1974

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