Lonar Lake, also known as Lonar crater, is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument,[2][3][4] saline, soda lake, located at Lonar, just 79 km from Buldhana city in Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India. Lonar Lake is an astrobleme created by a meteorite impact during the Pleistocene Epoch.[5][6] It is one of only four known hyper-velocity impact craters in basaltic rock anywhere on Earth. The other three basaltic impact structures are in southern Brazil.[7] Lonar Lake has a mean diameter of 1.2 kilometres (3,900 ft) and is about 137 metres (449 ft) below the crater rim. The meteor crater rim is about 1.8 kilometres (5,900 ft) in diameter.[8]
Lonar Crater sits inside the Deccan Plateau – a massive plain of volcanic basalt rock created by eruptions some 65 million years ago. Its location in this basalt field suggested to some geologists that it was a volcanic crater. Today, however, Lonar Crater is understood to be the result of a meteorite impact.[9] The water in the lake is both saline and alkaline.
Geologists, ecologists, archaeologists, naturalists and astronomers have published studies on various aspects of the ecosystem of this crater lake.[10]
Although the crater's age was previously estimated to be 52,000 ± 6,000 years,[11] newer studies suggest an age of 576,000 ± 47,000 years.[12][13]
The Smithsonian Institution, the United States Geological Survey, Geological Survey of India, the University of Sagar and the Physical Research Laboratory have conducted extensive studies of the site.[14][15] Biological nitrogen fixation was discovered in this lake in 2007.[16]
A 2019 study, conducted by IIT Bombay found that the minerals in the lake soil are very similar to the minerals found in Moon rocks brought back during the Apollo Program.[17] The lake was declared a protected Ramsar site in November 2020.[18]
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^"Lonar". Earth Impact Database. Planetary and Space Science Centre University of New Brunswick Fredericton. Retrieved 30 December 2008.
^Jourdan, Fred; Moynier, Frederic; Koeberl, Christian; Eroglu, Sümeyya (2011). "40Ar/39Ar age of the Lonar crater and consequence for the geochronology of planetary impacts". Geology. 39 (7): 671–674. Bibcode:2011Geo....39..671J. doi:10.1130/G31888.1.
^Schmieder M, Kring DA. (2020). Earth’s impact events through geologic time: A List of Recommended Ages for Terrestrial Impact Structures and Deposits. Astrobiology 20: 91-141.
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^Babar, Rohit. "Lonar, A Gem of Craters". Office of Space Science Education. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2008.
^Avinash A. Raut and Shyam S. Bajekal; Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria from Hypervelocity meteorite impact Lonar Crater; in Special Issue of Research Journal of Biotechnology; December 2008 and Avinash A. Raut and Shyam S. Bajekal; "Nitrogen Fixing Actinomycetes from Saline Alkaline Environment of Lonar Lake: A Meteorite Impact Crater", in Journal of Environmental Research and Development, Vol. 3, No. 3, January–March 2009.
^"Mineral contents of Buldhana's Lonar lake similar to moon rocks: IIT-Bombay study". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
^Vivek Deshpande (13 November 2020). "Lonar's meteor lake declared Ramsar site". The Indian Express.
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