Rotmistrivka crater
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Template:Infobox terrestrial impact site Rotmistrivka is an impact crater in Ukraine (Cherkasy Oblast) which is located near the village Rotmistrivka of Smila district.
The crater is Template:Convert in diameter, with an age estimated at 120 ± 10 million years (Lower Cretaceous). It is not exposed to the surface, being buried beneath continental and marine sedimentary deposits. The crater contains a brecciated lens of granite fragments and particles of impact glass, overlain by shales, limestones and granite-derived sandstones of lower Cretaceous age.<ref>Template:Cite Earth Impact DB</ref>