Fun fact. The Vredefort Impact Area is roughly overlaid by a larger geological feature called the Bushveld Igneous Complex, which is from a totally unrelated ge

Fun fact. The Vredefort Impact Area is roughly overlaid by a larger geological feature called the Bushveld Igneous Complex, which is from a totally unrelated geological event but resulted in this area having 60% of all the platinum and palladium in the world. So South Africa is stupendously geologically lucky twice over.