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Just a normal impact crater

it doesn't look like anything volcanic.

Impact heating is quite small for a crater as modest as Victoria. Most of the heat is held in a "pool" of crushed and possibly partly melted rock in the floor of the crater. Very large craters WOULD have hydrothermal and volcanic systems - I beleive that tis is the explanation of many of the sulphate mounds and sheets that are found in large craters.

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