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Zapadnaya

 Crater Name  Location  Latitude  Longitude  Diameter (km)  Age (Ma)  Exposed  Drilled  Target Rock**  Bolide Type***
 Zapadnaya  Ukraine  N 49° 44'  E 29° 0'  3.2  165 ± 5  N  Y  C  -
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1 & 2. Image provided by Yuri Chernenko

References
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Fel'dman, V. I., Catalog of impact and meteorite craters of the Earth (in Russian). Akademiya Nauk SSSR, v. 46, pp. 154-171. 1987.
Grieve, R. A. F., Masaitis, V. L., The economic potential of terrestrial impact craters. International Geology Review, v. 36, pp. 105-151. 1994.
Gurov E.P., Gurova E.P., Sokur T.M., Geology and Petrography of the Zapadnaya impact crater in the Ukrainian shield, 2000.
Gurov, E. P., Gurova, E.P. and Rakitskaya,R.B., Impact diamonds of the Zapadnaya crater: Phase composition and some properties (abstract). Meteoritics & Planetary Science, v. 31, p. A56. 1996.
Gurov, E. P., Gurova, E.P. and Rakitskaya,R.B., Impact diamonds in the craters of the Ukrainian shield (abstract). Meteoritics, v. 30, pp. 515-516. 1995.
Gurov, E. P., The characteristics of the geological structure of the eroded astrobleme in the western part of the Ukranian Shield (in Russian). Dipovidi Adademii Nauk Ukrainskoi Rodyanskoi Sotsialistychnoi Respubliky, Seriya "B", pp. 8-11. 1985.
Masaitis V.L., Impact structures of northeastern Eurasia - the territories of Russia and adjacent countries, 1999.
Masaitis, V. L., Diamond-bearing impactites and problems of their development. Mineral Resources of Russia: Diamonds and Gold. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium, Mineral Resources of Russia, pp. 41-43. 1995.
Masaitis, V. L., Diamantiferous impactites, their distribution and petrogenesis (in Russian). Regional Geology and Metallogeny, v. 1, pp. 121-134. 1993.
Sokur, T. M., Shock Metamorphism of Quartz of the Zapadnaya Crater, LPSC XXIX, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, (CD-ROM). 1998.
Val'ter, A. A., Gurov, E. P., Ustanolennaya in predpolagaemaya rasprostranennost vzryvnykh meteoritnykh craterow na Zemle i ikh sokhrannost na Ukrainskom shchite (in Russsian). In Meteoritnye structuzy na poverkhnosti planet, Nauka, pp. 126-148. 1979.
* pre-1977 K-Ar, Ar-Ar and Rb-Sr ages recalculated using the decay constants of Steiger and Jager (1977) Ages in millions of years (Ma) before present.

** Abbreviations: C - Crystalline Target; C-Ms - Metasedimentary Target; M - Mixed Target (i.e.sedimentary strata overlying crystalline basement); S - sedimentary target (i.e. no crystalline rocks affected by the impact event). From Osinski. G. R., Spray J. G., and Grieve R. A. F. 2007. Impact melting in sedimentary target rocks: A synthesis. In The Sedimentary Record of Meteorite Impacts, Geological Society of America Special Paper. Editors: Evans K. Horton W., King D., Morrow J., and Warme J. Geological Society of America: Boulder, in press.

***From Koeberl,C. Identification of meteoritic components in impactites. 1998, Koeberl, C. The Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry of Impacts. 2007 and PASSC Files. (IAB, IIIAB, IIIB, IIID - Iron Meteorite)