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    This document summarizes information on possible impact structures identified through visual research. It includes a table with details on 7 possible impact sites including Western Sahara 1 located in Morocco. The document then provides more background on Western Sahara 1, noting it is an isolated crater located 40 km from Galtat Zemmur that is eroded and filled with sand, revealing an outwardly pointing scales ring. Geological analysis found paleozoic metasedimentary rock outcroppings with no comparable igneous structures nearby. Images and sketches are included analyzing the structure and comparing it to known impact and non-impact formations.

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    Visual Analysis Of A Probable Impact Crater In Morocco

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    Mar SahO 25°25'N-12°15'O d=2.7km

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    This document summarizes information on possible impact structures identified through visual research. It includes a table with details on 7 possible impact sites including Western Sahara 1 located in Morocco. The document then provides more background on Western Sahara 1, noting it is an isolated crater located 40 km from Galtat Zemmur that is eroded and filled with sand, revealing an outwardly pointing scales ring. Geological analysis found paleozoic metasedimentary rock outcroppings with no comparable igneous structures nearby. Images and sketches are included analyzing the structure and comparing it to known impact and non-impact formations.

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    Mar SahO 25°25'N-12°15'O D 2.7km

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    This document summarizes information on possible impact structures identified through visual research. It includes a table with details on 7 possible impact sites including Western Sahara 1 located in Morocco. The document then provides more background on Western Sahara 1, noting it is an isolated crater located 40 km from Galtat Zemmur that is eroded and filled with sand, revealing an outwardly pointing scales ring. Geological analysis found paleozoic metasedimentary rock outcroppings with no comparable igneous structures nearby. Images and sketches are included analyzing the structure and comparing it to known impact and non-impact formations.

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    Possible impact-structures visual research Updated: May 18, 2017

    Diameter Age Looking like Target


    Working Name Country Latitude Longitude
    (km) (Ma) Impact str. other Rock

    Tin Bider, volcano,


    Western Sahara 1 Morocco N 2525 O 1215 2.76 <70 Ouarkiz Richat structure
    C-Ms
    * Abbreviations: C - Crystalline; C-Ms - Metasedimentary; M - Mixed (i.e.sedimentary strata overlying crystalline basement); S -
    sedimentary (i.e. no crystalline rocks affected by the impact event). From PASSC Earth Impact Database.
    conviction scale Impact Parei Other or
    Eruptive Plutonic Tectonic Hydraulic Artefact
    structure dolia mixed
    (1 to 5 + allocated among
    the different hypothesis)
    +++ + + - - -
    - = Excluded hypothesis

    Location: About 40 km N-NE from Galtat Zemmur.

    Description: isolated crater eroded and partly filled with sand. An outwardly (reverse from Richat)
    pointing scales ring betrays the concave shape of the masked structure in the sand

    Geology: Paleozoic Metasedimentary outcropping. No comparable igneous structure identified nearby.

    Google Earth M. SAADI - Structural Map of


    Morocco 1/2000000e, 1982

    Google Earth

    J-M. Mazaleyrat February 16, 2014 Page 1/5


    Possible impact-structures visual research Updated: May 18, 2017

    Looking like:
    Impact structures

    OUARKZIZ (Algria) D= 3.5km: TIN BIDER (Algria) D= 6km

    http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/ouarkziz.html http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/tinbider.html

    Non impact structures

    RICHAT Structure (Mauritania) D= 40km

    J-M. Mazaleyrat February 16, 2014 Page 2/5


    Possible impact-structures visual research Updated: May 18, 2017

    Sketchup processing:

    Relief extension x3 + flooding.

    J-M. Mazaleyrat February 16, 2014 Page 3/5


    Possible impact-structures visual research Updated: May 18, 2017

    Relief x3 + false colors

    Intersection with cylinders Scales ring


    Rim

    J-M. Mazaleyrat February 16, 2014 Page 4/5


    Possible impact-structures visual research Updated: May 18, 2017

    Cross section E - W

    J-M. Mazaleyrat February 16, 2014 Page 5/5

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