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[[File:Импактное стекло Жаманшинит.jpg|thumb|right|Impact glass from the Zhamanshin impact site]]<br />
'''Zhamanshin''' is a [[meteorite]] [[impact crater|crater]] in [[Kazakhstan]].<br />
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It is 14 [[kilometre|km]] in [[diameter]] and the age is estimated to be 900,000 ± 100,000 years ([[Pleistocene]]). The crater is exposed at the surface.<ref>{{cite Earth Impact DB | name = Zhamanshin| accessdate = 2009-08-20}}</ref><br />
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It is believed that the Zhamanshin crater is the site of the most recent meteorite impact event of the magnitude that could have produced a disruption comparable to that of [[nuclear winter]], but it was not sufficiently large to have caused a [[mass extinction]].<ref>[http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/essay.html Essay "Impact Cratering on Earth"], based on: R.A.F. Grieve, 1990, Impact cratering on the Earth, Scientific American, v. 262, 66-73.</ref><br />
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Preliminary papers in the late 1970s suggested either [[Elgygytgyn lake|Elgygytgyn]]<ref>R.S. Dietz (1977), Elgygytgyn Crater, Siberia: Probable Source Of Australasian Tektite Field Meteoritics, June 1977, Vol 12, Issue 2, p. 145–157</ref> or Zhamanshin<ref>B.P. Glass (1979), Zhamanshin crater, a possible source of Australasian tektites? Geology, July 1979, v. 7, p. 351-353</ref> as the source of the [[Australasian strewnfield]].<br />
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