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Chapter 9 - Approaches to recognizing small impact craters

The identification of impact craters less than about a kilometer in diameter presents a special set of challenges. (This page will eventually summarize investigations on the subject)

See Chapter 4 of this dissertation for a complete treatment of this subject: 



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