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Meteor craters around the world.


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West Hawk Lake

West Hawk Lake

West Hawk Lake basin is a metorite impact structure; popular with SCUBA enthusiasts, deepest point is 110 meters.
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Bjurbole meteorite fall

Bjurbole meteorite fall

Bjurbole is the biggest recent meteorite fall found in Finland so far. This meteorite broke into many pieces when it hits the sea ice in the gulf of Finland, on the 12 March 1899.
328 kg of material were recovered from 8 meters deep (0.4 meter ice 0.5 meter water and 7 meters mud) by divers. The meteorite had made a 4 meter wide hole in the ice, and mud was spread over a 24 x 33 m wide...
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Earth Impact Database CPJ

Earth Impact Database CPJ

Impacts by extraterrestrial bodies
Rating of 312/31/20051,641Google Earth Logo
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Mjolnir Impact Crater

Mjolnir Impact Crater

Mjolnir Crater is a recently discovered ringed structure about 24 miles wide on the floor of the Barents Sea. It is the result of the impact, roughly 142.0 ± 2.6 million years ago (Lower Cretaceous), of a 1 -3 Km wide asteroid-like body.
Estimates indicate that the energy released in the impact could have been as high as a million megatons of TNT, resulting in immense (7.7 to 8.7 magn...
Rating of 312/27/2005865Google Earth Logo
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Calderon Hondo

Calderon Hondo

Deep Crater. Volcano Calderon Hondo in the Island of Fuerteventura
Rating of 3.57142857112/14/20051,880Google Earth Logo
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Some Meteors Craters in the world.

Some Meteors Craters in the world.

Some Meteors Craters.
Rating of 3.28571428512/13/20051,189Google Earth Logo
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Azuara Crater

Azuara Crater

The 35-40-km diameter Azuara impact structure is located in northeast Spain roughly 50 km south of Zaragoza. Its age is estimated to be Upper Eocene or Oligocene, though ages of 130 and 40 Million years have been offered. It is possible that Azuara and the close by Rubiela de la Cérida impact craters formed during the same event.
No rating yet12/10/2005959Google Earth Logo
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Impact crater In Tocantins - Brazil

Impact crater In Tocantins - Brazil

Impact crater In Tocantins - Uma cratera provocada pelo choque de um meteoro com a Terra no estado do Tocantins, Brasil.
Rating of 3.66666666612/10/20051,110Google Earth Logo
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Silverpit crater

Silverpit crater

The Silverpit crater in the North Sea was discovered in 2002 during a seismic oil exploration .
The crater is about 2.4 km wide and surrounded by a set of concentric rings, which extend to about 10 km away from its centre.
Its age is thought to be about 65 million years old, roughly coincident with the formation of the Chicxulub Crater.
The crater currently lies below a ...
Rating of 2.512/09/20051,054Google Earth Logo
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Ilopango caldera,  El Salvador.

Ilopango caldera, El Salvador.

Ilopango is a caldera that formed in 260 A.D. Ash from this explosive eruption covered much of central El Salvador. Lake Ilopango fills part of the caldera. Islas Quemadas, a volcanic dome, formed within the caldera in 1879-1880. Periods of dome extrusion coincided with tidal forces. Earthquake swarms preceded each extrusion.
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Bedout Crater

Bedout Crater

A 180 km wide crater, called Bedout, off the northwestern coast of Australia was caused by an asteroidal impactor (estimated the size of Mt. Everest) that struck 250.1 +/- 1 million years ago forming the Permian/Triassic boundary (end of the Paleozoic) .
This event is sometimes known as `the Great Dying`, because 97% of all life became extinct.
This was one of the worst events in...
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Lake Chiemsee strewnfield

Lake Chiemsee strewnfield

A strewnfield of craters around Lake Chiemsee, in south-east Bavaria, which may have been caused by fragments of a huge comet that broke up in the Earth’s atmosphere.
More than 80 craters were found in an elliptical area 36 miles long and 17 wide, ranging in size from 10 to 1,215 feet across. The largest, filled with water, now formed Lake Tuttensee.
Evidence from ancient tree rin...
Rating of 211/17/2005457Google Earth Logo
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Mount Toondina crater, South Australia.

Mount Toondina crater, South Australia.

Mount Toondina crater, South Australia. Mount Toondina crater is 4 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 110 million years.
Rating of 2.511/03/2005605Google Earth Logo
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The Crater of Sagittarius, Istanbul, Turkey

The Crater of Sagittarius, Istanbul, Turkey

A Crater resembling the "Sagittarius" in Istanbul.
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Chiyli impact crater Kazakhstan.

Chiyli impact crater Kazakhstan.

Chiyli impact crater Kazakhstan.The crater is 5.5 km in diameter and is estimated to be 46 million years old.
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Kara-Kul crater lake Tajikistan.

Kara-Kul crater lake Tajikistan.

Kara-Kul crater lake Tajikistan. The crater is 52 km in diameter and is estimated to be less than 5 million years old.
No rating yet10/21/2005498Google Earth Logo
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Aorounga impact crater, Chad, Africa.

Aorounga impact crater, Chad, Africa.

Aorounga impact crater, Chad, Africa. It is 12.6 km in diameter and is estimated to be less than 345 million years old.
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Roter Kamm meteorite crater Namibia.

Roter Kamm meteorite crater Namibia.

Roter Kamm meteorite crater Namibia. Over 2.5 km in diameter and 130 meters, the age is estimated to be 3.7 million years.
Rating of 3.610/19/20051,854Google Earth Logo
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Ngurdoto Crater, Tanzania

Ngurdoto Crater, Tanzania

The crater is 20 km in diameter and 100 m deep. Ngurdoto Crater is surrounded by forest whilst the crater floor is a swamp.
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Acraman crater

Acraman crater

Acraman crater South Australia , is an impact crater that is believed to have formed 590 million years ago during the Ediacaran period.
Rating of 3.33333333310/04/2005772Google Earth Logo
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Boxhole crater

Boxhole crater

Boxhole crater, Northern Territory, Australia. 170 meters in diameter its estimated to be 54,000 years old, placing it near the end of the Pleistocene.
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Shoemaker crater

Shoemaker crater

Shoemaker crater is a meteor crater in Western Australia. Originally called Teague crater, it was renamed after the late planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker.
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Earth Impact Structures - South America

Earth Impact Structures - South America

These are the confirmed impact structures on the continent of South America.

Instructions:
- Doubleclick on a folder to see an overview of the structure.
- Click on the placemark to see the description of the structure.
- Doubleclick on the 'size indicator' to see the estimated size of the structure.
Rating of 509/28/20051,005Google Earth Logo
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Earth Impact Structures - North America

Earth Impact Structures - North America

These are the confirmed impact structures on the continent of North America.

Instructions:
- Doubleclick on a folder to see an overview of the structure.
- Click on the placemark to see the description of the structure.
- Doubleclick on the 'size indicator' to see the estimated size of the structure.
Rating of 3.509/28/20051,370Google Earth Logo
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Earth Impact Structures - Europe

Earth Impact Structures - Europe

These are the confirmed impact structures on the continent of Europe.

Instructions:
- Doubleclick on a folder to see an overview of the structure.
- Click on the placemark to see the description of the structure.
- Doubleclick on the 'size indicator' to see the estimated size of the structure.
Rating of 3.33333333309/28/20051,333Google Earth Logo
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