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Amguid crater - One of the best preserve ...

  • Amguid, In Amguel, Algeria
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Natura incontaminata
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Inglese

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Amguid crater is one of the best preserved impact craters on Earth.It is an impact crater located in a remote and inaccessible region of southwestern Algeria. The crater cannot be approached by car because of the rocky terrain. The nearest inhabited place is more than a hundred km away.The first mention of Amguid crater in scientific literature occurred in 1953 by French explorer Roman Karpoff, who noted that he has noticed a possible impact crater from a plane in 1948. The first recorded visit was by a French geologist Jean-Phillippe Lefranc in 1969.

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