Impact crater lake information

An impact crater lake is a lake inside a depression caused by the impact of a meteor. It is also known as an annular lake in cases where the water body...

Lonar Lake is an astrobleme created by a meteorite impact during the Pleistocene Epoch. It is one of only four known hyper-velocity impact craters in basaltic...

"40Ar/39Ar age of the Lake Saint Martin impact structure (Canada) – Unchaining the Late Triassic terrestrial impact craters". Earth and Planetary Science...

Lake Bosumtwi is the only natural lake in Ghana. It is situated within an ancient impact crater that is about 10.5 kilometres (6.5 mi) in diameter. It...

Crater" (French: Cratère du Nouveau-Québec), is a relatively young impact crater located on the Ungava Peninsula in the administrative region of Nord-du-Québec...

mineralization not found on impact craters". A crater may become a crater lake if conditions are suitable. This requires that the crater have relatively even...

Impact craters in the Solar System An impact crater is a circular depression in the surface of a solid astronomical body formed by the hypervelocity impact...

Wanapitei Lake was an impact crater. Remarkably, it lies on the eastern edge of the much older, larger Sudbury structure. Cobbles of suevite, crumbly impact breccia...

A volcanic crater lake is a lake in a crater that was formed by explosive activity or a collapse during a volcanic eruption. Lakes in calderas fill large...

by an impact event and is one of the few impact events that has occurred in a populated area (other ones are: Henbury craters and Carancas crater). Before...

also called the Clearwater Lakes in English and Allait Qasigialingat by the Inuit, are a pair of annular lakes and impact craters on the Canadian Shield in...

meteor impact. The larger Deep Bay crater, of Cretaceous age, is approximately 90 kilometres (56 mi) east of Gow crater. Gow Lake — the lake that fills...

Acraman impact structure is a deeply eroded impact crater in the Gawler Ranges of South Australia. Its location is marked by Lake Acraman, a circular...

Mistastin crater is a meteorite crater in Labrador, Canada which contains the roughly circular Mistastin Lake. The lake is approximately 16 km (9.9 mi)...

sediment at the bottom of the lake, recording information on prehistoric climate change. Lake Elgygytgyn is an impact crater lake located in the Anadyr Plateau...

Meteor Crater or Barringer Crater is an impact crater about 37 mi (60 km) east of Flagstaff and 18 mi (29 km) west of Winslow in the desert of northern...

structure to be confirmed as an impact crater, it must meet a stringent set of well-established criteria. Some proposed impact structures are likely to eventually...

of salt") is an impact crater enclosed by a 1,946 ha nature reserve, situated in northern Gauteng province, South Africa. The crater and reserve are situated...

of this somewhat circular lake was formed by meteorite impact 700±5 million years ago during the Cryogenian period. The crater is 14 kilometers (8.7 mi)...

Kuukkarinselkä making it the 6th known impact crater in Finland. The crater, usually referred as Suvasvesi North crater, is located in the center of Kuukkarinselkä...

2014. 40Ar/39Ar age of the Lake Saint Martin impact structure (Canada) - Unchaining the Late Triassic terrestrial impact craters. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett...

Pilot crater is an impact crater in the Northwest Territories, Canada, just north of the Alberta border and near Fort Smith 54 km (34 mi). It is 6 km (3...