Where abouts in the world is that massive crater i've seen on the telly?
I've seen this huge crater on tv and just wondered if anyone knew where it was. I think its somewhere in south america
by the way im not talking about the grand canyon thats a canyon not a crater!
Answers:
About 230 craters are known on Earth. A few are filled with water, as for example Skeleton Lake in Ontario. Chubb Crater in the Ungava Peninsula of Quebec is one of the largest (60 km), but very remote and hard to get to.
Barringer Crater in Arizona is not especially large (0.8 km), but is privately owned and just off a major highway, with advertising promoting visits, so it may well be the best known.
Much of Kazakhstan is a crater.
The Vredevoort Ring in South Africa (100 km) is a giant crater.
There have been suggestions that Hudson's Bay might be an extremely old crater remnant (>2 billion years), but no evidence has been found to confirm this. If true, it would be Earth's largest.
Our Moon's Largest--Orientale Basin
Mercury's largest--Caloris Basin (2100 km)
Mars' largest--Hellas Basin (1000+km)
Crater may refer to:
Impact crater, caused by two bodies impacting each other, such as an astrobleme.
Volcanic crater or caldera, from volcanic activity .
What kind you want?
yucatan peninsula
The Barringer Meteor crater in Arizona, possibly?
There is evidence in many areas, of giant craters. A few days ago, on public television, I saw a photo of a giant crater in the state of Arizona, USA.
The biggest crater, from a meteor that hit the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico is surprisingly not visible at all. That hit, 65 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs.
http://www.meteorcrater.com/index.php.
I think it's Dean Gaffney you're thinking of.....although I hear he's gone bankrupt so I wouldn't bother visiting him!
It's in Yellowstone Park in North America. It's so big we didn't know it was there until it was spotted from space!
There don't seem to be many impact craters in South America that still look like craters. The biggest ones are very old and eroded.
The Yucatan (Chicxulub) crater is 65 million years old, 180 km in diameter, doesn't look like a crater any more, and is the third biggest of all. The two biggest are Vredefort, South Africa (300 km) and Sudbury, Canada (250 km), both about 2000 my old and of course looking even less like craters by now.
Visit the Earth Impact Database below to search for the biggest of the newer ones.
Not really,Vredefort crater and it is in South Africa (at 186 miles, or 300 kilometers across),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vredefort_c.
There is a huge crater in Siberia, thought to be where the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs hit. Helpful?
Yolane but quite a all around the would there is one in aust that almost covers the whole state
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by the way im not talking about the grand canyon thats a canyon not a crater!
Answers:
About 230 craters are known on Earth. A few are filled with water, as for example Skeleton Lake in Ontario. Chubb Crater in the Ungava Peninsula of Quebec is one of the largest (60 km), but very remote and hard to get to.
Barringer Crater in Arizona is not especially large (0.8 km), but is privately owned and just off a major highway, with advertising promoting visits, so it may well be the best known.
Much of Kazakhstan is a crater.
The Vredevoort Ring in South Africa (100 km) is a giant crater.
There have been suggestions that Hudson's Bay might be an extremely old crater remnant (>2 billion years), but no evidence has been found to confirm this. If true, it would be Earth's largest.
Our Moon's Largest--Orientale Basin
Mercury's largest--Caloris Basin (2100 km)
Mars' largest--Hellas Basin (1000+km)
Crater may refer to:
Impact crater, caused by two bodies impacting each other, such as an astrobleme.
Volcanic crater or caldera, from volcanic activity .
What kind you want?
yucatan peninsula
The Barringer Meteor crater in Arizona, possibly?
There is evidence in many areas, of giant craters. A few days ago, on public television, I saw a photo of a giant crater in the state of Arizona, USA.
The biggest crater, from a meteor that hit the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico is surprisingly not visible at all. That hit, 65 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs.
http://www.meteorcrater.com/index.php.
I think it's Dean Gaffney you're thinking of.....although I hear he's gone bankrupt so I wouldn't bother visiting him!
It's in Yellowstone Park in North America. It's so big we didn't know it was there until it was spotted from space!
There don't seem to be many impact craters in South America that still look like craters. The biggest ones are very old and eroded.
The Yucatan (Chicxulub) crater is 65 million years old, 180 km in diameter, doesn't look like a crater any more, and is the third biggest of all. The two biggest are Vredefort, South Africa (300 km) and Sudbury, Canada (250 km), both about 2000 my old and of course looking even less like craters by now.
Visit the Earth Impact Database below to search for the biggest of the newer ones.
Not really,Vredefort crater and it is in South Africa (at 186 miles, or 300 kilometers across),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vredefort_c.
There is a huge crater in Siberia, thought to be where the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs hit. Helpful?
Yolane but quite a all around the would there is one in aust that almost covers the whole state
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