description Boltysh Overview
Boltysh is a meteorite impact crater in central Ukraine with a diameter of about 24 kilometers. The structure formed when an extraterrestrial body struck the Earth's surface, creating impact-melt and brecciated rock beneath later sediments. Its estimated age is close to 65 million years, placing it near the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, although the exact relationship between the impact and the boundary events remains a subject of geological study.
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Where is the Boltysh crater?
Boltysh is in central Ukraine. It is a meteorite impact crater preserved beneath and among later sedimentary rocks.
How wide is Boltysh crater?
The crater is about 24 kilometres in diameter. Its impact structure includes impact-melt and brecciated rock.
When did the Boltysh impact occur?
Its estimated age is close to 65 million years. Because the age is reported as an estimate, it is safer to describe it as near the end of the Cretaceous rather than give an exact year.
What rocks were produced by the Boltysh impact?
The collision produced impact melt and brecciated rock beneath later sediments. These materials are important evidence that Boltysh was formed by an extraterrestrial impact rather than ordinary volcanic activity.
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