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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A scar on the earth's surface left from the impact of a meteorite.

Wiktionary

  1. n. geology A pit-like structure created by an impacting meteoroid, asteroid or comet.

Etymologies

  1. 1963, from astro- +‎ Ancient Greek βλῆμα (blema, "wound from a missile") (Wiktionary)
  2. astro- + Greek blēma, missile, wound (from ballein, to throw. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Another earthquake spot is on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, most interestingly just in a large meteorite impact structure ( "astrobleme") called Charlevoix.”

    Signs of the Times

  • “A comprehensive comparative analysis with other complex meteorite impact structures demonstrated that it is the oldest, the largest and the only example on earth providing a full geological profile of an astrobleme below the crater floor, thereby enabling research into the genesis and development of an astrobleme immediately post impact.”

    Vredefort Dome, South Africa

  • “It provides the only mappable and restorable profile that illustrates the genesis and development of an astrobleme during the very short time after impact.”

    Vredefort Dome, South Africa

  • “Vredefort Dome, some 120 km southwest of Johannesburg and covering 30,111 ha, is a representative part of a larger meteorite impact structure (or astrobleme), which has a radius of impact of 190 km.”

    Vredefort Dome, South Africa

  • “Only one astrobleme in Europe fit the description, a crater called the Ries that lay some 300 kilometers to the east, on the northern shore of the Danube River.”

    The Golden Torc

  • “The structure called the Ries (or Rieskessel) is the subject of some controversy-one school of thought accepting it as an astrobleme, while another holds it to be the result of a cryptovolcanic explosion that brought to the surface "meteoritelike" materials.”

    The Golden Torc

  • “Thus at the final crash, most of those meteoroids fell as one body, to form that gigantic astrobleme.”

    The Earth Book of Stormgate

  • “Her birth country lay not far inland, though sheltered from northerly winds and easterly waters -- the Kazan, Cauldron, huge astrobleme on the continent Rodna, a bowl filled with woods, farmlands, rivers, at its middle Lake Stoyan and the capital Zorkagrad.”

    A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows

  • “Dating back 2,023 million years, it is the oldest astrobleme found on earth so far, with a radius of 190km, it is also the most deeply eroded.”

    Signs of the Times

  • “It is the world’s only structurally intact exposure of the basement, below the crater floor, of a very large astrobleme.”

    Vredefort Dome, South Africa

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  • she Beautiful etymological underpinnings: Greek ástron + blêma, "starwound" Jul 11, 2008

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