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Polished specimen from a rock collected at the Mien Crater in Sweden This particular piece comes from Ramsö Island which is the uplift cone of the meteorite crater Slice size : 66.6 x 34.3 x 3.5 mm Weight : 12gr Mien is a lake in southern Sweden, 12 km (7.5 mi) southwest of the town of Tingsryd. The lake is formed within a meteorite crater. The eroded crater is marked by a 5.5-km (3.4-mi) diameter circular lake (Lake Mien). The original crater rim is estimated to have been about 9 km in diameter before erosion.[3] Its age is estimated to be 121.0 ± 2.3 million years (Early Cretaceous)
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:07:19 +0000

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