The Santa Fe impact structure is an eroded remnant of a bolide impact crater in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains northeast of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The discovery was made in 2005 by a geologist who noticed shatter cones in the rocks in a decades-old road cut on New Mexico State Road 475 between Santa Fe and Hyde Memorial State Park.

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Gewin, Virginia (2005) Geoffrey West, president, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Nature, 437 (7060). 924 doi:10.1038/nj7060-924a

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