Australia's Impact Craters
Crater Types
Wolfe Creek, WA
Meteor Crater, Arizona
Gosse Bluff, NT
Lake Acraman, SA
Silverpit Crater, North Sea
Chicxulb Structure, Mexico
Asteroid Impact Simulation
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Terrestrial Impact Craters
Michael Gallagher
11th February 2004
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170 km wide, impact structure buried beneath the Yucatan Peninsular, Mexico. Formed 65 million years ago. Possibly linked with the mass extinction event at the end of the Tertiary Era when half the species then alive, including the Dinosaurs, suddenly dissapeared from the fossil record.
Image produced by V. L. Sharpton, Lunar Planetary Institute from Calvin J Hamilton's Views of the Solar System">