List of impact craters in Africa

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Confirmed impact craters

This list of impact craters in Africa includes all confirmed impact craters (a total of 19) as listed in the Earth Impact Database. These features were caused by the collision of large meteorites or comets with the Earth. For eroded or buried craters, the stated diameter typically refers to an estimate of original rim diameter, and may not correspond to present surface features.

Name Location Diameter (km) Age (years) Coordinates
Amguid Algeria 0.45 < 100,000 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Aorounga Chad 12.6 < 345 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Aouelloul Mauritania 0.39 3.0 ± 0.3 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
BP Structure Libya 2 < 120 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Bosumtwi Ashanti 10.5 1.07 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Gweni-Fada Chad 14 < 345 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Kalkkop South Africa 0.64 0.25 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Kamil Egypt 0.045 < 2000 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Kgagodi Botswana 3.5 < 180 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Luizi DRC 17 < 575 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Morokweng South Africa 70 145.0 ± 0.8 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Oasis Libya 18 < 120 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Ouarkziz Algeria 3.5 < 70 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Roter Kamm Namibia 2.5 3.7 ± 0.3 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Talemzane Algeria 1.75 < 3 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Tenoumer Mauritania 1.9 21,400 ± 9,700 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Tin Bider Algeria 6 < 70 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Tswaing (was Pretoria Saltpan) South Africa 1.13 0.220 ± 0.052 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Vredefort South Africa 300 2023 ± 4 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Unconfirmed impact craters

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The following craters are officially considered "unconfirmed" because they are not listed in the Earth Impact Database. Due to stringent requirements regarding evidence and peer-reviewed publication, newly discovered craters or those with difficulty collecting evidence generally are known for some time before becoming listed. However, entries on the unconfirmed list could still have an impact origin disproven.

Mahas crater
Name Location Diameter Age Coordinates
Kebira Gilf Kebir region, Egypt 31 km 100 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Temimichat[1] Mauritania 0.75 km unknown Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Wembo-Nyama ring structure[2][3] DR Congo 36–46 km (est.) 60 million Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Mahas1 Northern, Sudan 2.85 km Unknown Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Notes

1Mahas was anonymously added Jan 2015, but the coordinates do show a convincing impact-like structure.

See also

References

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