Tenoumer, Mauritania

  • Di Martino M
  • Coletta A
  • Battagliere M
  • et al.
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Abstract

Abslzact-Geologists have realized that impact cratering is the single most important surface-forming and modifying process for the other terrestrial planets and the satellites of all planets. The recognition of impact cratering as an important geological process on earth has been rather slow. However, geologists are now realizing that giant impacts have had a determining influence on the geological and biological evolution of our planet. The study of impact craters allows important conclusions, not only about the origin mid history of our solar system and its planets,, T'm Bider (Algeria), and V~:lefort (South Africa). This paper presents an overview of these craters, as well as a discussion of impact processes, the recognition of impact cTaters, and the geological arid economic importance of impact craters. R&nml~-Lea g~ioguea ont maintenant r6alis~ que les crat~rea d'impact constituent le processus majeur de formation et de modification des surfaces des autres plan~,tes telluriques ainsi que de lenrs satellites. La reconnaissance des crat~res d'impact en rant que processus g~ologique important sur Terre est relativement r&'ent. Les g6alogues ont cependant maintenant accept~ clue lea impacts g~ants ont eu une influence d~terminante sur l'~'volution g~logique et biologique de notre plan~e. L'~,tude des crat~es d'impact m~ne/~ des conclusions importantes non seulement sur l'origine et l'histoire de notre syst~me solaire et ses plan~tes rnais c~galement sur un processus g~ologique qui eat fondamental. De plus, les crat~ms d'impact petrvent avoir une importance &:onomique, en contenant parfois des mm,-',ra~i~ tions ou des hydrocarbums. Quinze impacts m@~oritiques ont ~ identifi~ jusqu'A pr~ent sur le continent africain: Amguid (Alg~'ie), Aomunga (Tchad), Aouelloul (Mauritanie), B.P. (Libye), Bosumtwi (Ghana), Highbury (Zimbabwe), Kalkkop (Afrique du Sud), Oasis (Libye), Ouarkziz (Alg~ie), Roter Kamm (Namibie), Saltpan (Afrique du Sud), Talemzane (Alg~rie), Tenoumer (Mauritanie), Tm Bider (Alg~rie) et Vredefort (Afrique du Sud). Cet article p~C, sente une rue d'e~semble de ces crat~rea ainai qu'une discussion du processus d'impact, de la reconnaissance des crat~res d'impact et de l'importance g~'ologique et ~-onomique de ces crat~s.

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Di Martino, M., Coletta, A., Battagliere, M. L., & Virelli, M. (2019). Tenoumer, Mauritania. In Encyclopedic Atlas of Terrestrial Impact Craters (pp. 117–119). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05451-9_22

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