There the department head of Institute of Geochemistry St. Petersburg Russian Academy of Sciences (IG SB RAS), Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences Viktor Antipin said that: "Since the expedition in 2006 at the Institute of Geochemistry (IGC), SB RAS came to the conclusion that the origin of Patomskiy crater is probably from geological processes.
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According to geophysicists, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, astroblemes (meteorite craters) have a very different shape, and Patom crater is not one of them, he added.
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