Puchezh-Katunki crater
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Puchezh-Katunki is a meteor crater located in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast of the Volga Federal District, Russia. It is Template:Convert in diameter. Argon–argon dating has constrained the age of formation to be 195.9 ± 1.0 million years old, placing it within the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The crater is not exposed to the surface, but appears as variation in the vegetation. The Earth Impact Database lists a rim-to-rim diameter of Template:Convert. <ref name=EIDBPuchezh>Template:Cite Earth Impact DB</ref>
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The central dome, ring depression, and ring terrace of the Template:Convert wide impact structure are nearly completely buried under Neogene and Quaternary sediments, with the only exposed impactites found on the banks of the Volga River. <ref name="Pálfy-2004">Template:Cite web</ref>