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    The Nördlinger Ries is an impact crater and large circular depression in western Bavaria and eastern Baden-Württemberg. It is located north of the Danube...
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  • Donau-Ries (Danube-Ries) is a Landkreis (district) in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Ansbach...
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    projectile glass formed by a meteorite impact in southern Germany (Nördlinger Ries Crater) that occurred about 15 million years ago. It is a type of tektite...
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    of the Swabian Alb, 40km west of the much larger (24-km-diameter) Nördlinger Ries crater. It is 3.8 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be about...
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  • Ries is the German word for a unit of paper ream, derived from the Arabic word rizma. The term can refer to: Nördlinger Ries, a large circular depression...
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  • 14 and 17 astronauts also studied the geology of Nördlinger Ries crater in 1970. The training at Ries Crater is made possible with the help of the Rieskrater...
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    Nördlingen (category Donau-Ries)
    in an impact crater 15 million years old and 25 km in diameter—the Nördlinger Ries—of a meteorite which hit with an estimated speed of 70,000 km/h, and...
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  • Germany and list of cities in Bavaria by population Bavarian Forest National Park Berchtesgaden National Park Hallertau Nördlinger Ries Partnach Gorge...
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    Philippinites (Philippines, black). Central European strewnfield (Nördlinger Ries impact crater (24 km), Germany, age: 15 million years): Moldavites...
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  • tarsometatarsus found in middle Miocene freshwater deposits in the Nördlinger Ries of western Bavaria in Southern Germany. It is the only species in the...
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    mountain chains are separated from each other by the impact crater of the Nördlinger Ries. The northern part of the Franconian Jura is known as Franconian Switzerland...
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  • Raetovarii/Raetobarii) were an Alamannic tribe in the region of the Nördlinger Ries in the west of the German state of Bavaria.[citation needed] They lived...
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  • devil. In the valley of Kartäusertal, on the southern edge of the Nördlinger Ries there was supposed to have been a leather bridge between the three...
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    the east. To the west it borders to Bavaria and the meteor crater Nördlinger Ries. The first known settlers came to the area 8000 years ago in the Holocene...
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  • standard temperatures and pressures. Akaogiite can be found at the Nördlinger Ries Crater, a meteor crater in Germany, where the extreme pressure during...
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    described from many of the larger impact structures identified on earth. Nördlinger Ries Sudbury Basin Popigai impact structure Chicxulub crater Kara crater...
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    (Boltysh) Nördlinger Ries Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg Germany 24 14.808 ± 0.038 48°53′N 10°34′E / 48.883°N 10.567°E / 48.883; 10.567 (Nördlinger Ries) Presqu'île...
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    Neuschwanstein I - 1705 Gram Nördlinger Ries, Steinheim crater, Danube, Stuttgart, Nuremberg and Munich Nördlinger Ries and Steinheimer crater G. Pösges...
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    the Middle Franconia region of Bavaria. It flows south, through the Nördlinger Ries, and flows into the Danube in Donauwörth. Towns along the Wörnitz include...
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    this discovery with the identification of coesite within suevite at Nördlinger Ries, proving its impact origin. Armed with the knowledge of shock-metamorphic...
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    Dillingen Donau-Ries Günzburg Lindau Neu-Ulm Oberallgäu Ostallgäu Unterallgäu Augsburg Kaufbeuren Kempten Memmingen Nördlinger Ries* Swabian Jura Iller-Lech...
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    Logancha Manicouagan Manson Mistastin Mjølnir Montagnais Morokweng Nördlinger Ries Obolon' Popigai Presqu'île Puchezh-Katunki Rochechouart Saint Martin...
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    from the Murg (some 30 km south of Karlsruhe) to Heilbronn and the Nördlinger Ries. The eastern boundary was at the Lech. Argovia was disputed territory...
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    tectonically active region) sometimes causes mild earthquakes. The Nördlinger Ries is a large meteorite crater (15 million years old). Tertiary relicts...
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    while Mirolia is known from the Middle Miocene at Deiningen in the Nördlinger Ries (Germany). Most living genera would seem to have evolved throughout...
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    Garfield County, Montana, US. On the Earth, it also occurs in Germany (Nördlinger Ries impact crater in Bavaria), Greenland (Disko Island), Mexico (El Toro...
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    are the remains of an underground karst system on the edge of the Nördlinger Ries in Germany. They are located on a limestone hill near Nördlingen, Bavaria...
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    this discovery with the identification of coesite within suevite at Nördlinger Ries, proving its impact origin.: 69, 74–75, 78–79, 81–85, 99–100  In 1960...
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    Manicouagan impact structure, Québec, Canada Neugrund crater, Estonia Nördlinger Ries crater, Germany Rochechouart impact structure, France Stac Fada Member...
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  • The Riesbahn ("Ries Railway") is a name for the railway connection between Aalen and Donauwörth, which runs through the Nördlinger Ries: Stuttgart-Bad...
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