Topic
Impact Craters
3 questions tagged Impact Craters — spanning every one of the seven Ws.
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Where is the Vredefort impact structure?
It is in South Africa, about 120 kilometers southwest of Johannesburg. It is the largest confirmed impact structure on Earth.
GeologyImpact Craters
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Where is the Chicxulub crater located?
The Chicxulub crater is beneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It is the impact site linked to the mass extinction 66 million years ago.
Earth ScienceImpact Craters
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Where is the Ries crater located?
The Ries crater is in southern Germany, near the town of Nördlingen in Bavaria. It formed from a meteor impact about 14.8 million years ago.
Earth ScienceImpact Craters