Saarijärvi is a 1.5 diameter impact structure mostly covered by a small lake by the same name. It is located about 40 km south from the town of Taivalkoski, Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland. The structure's age has not been determined, but the oldest sediments from the drill-core are from Ediacaran p...
Paasselka crater is a 10km diameter oval shaped lake formed by a impact in southern Savonia Finland. Its age is estimated to be less than 1800 million years. Latitude: 62° 2' N, Longitude: 29° 5' E
Foelsche is a 6 km diameter partly buried meteorite crater in the Northern Territory, Australia. Its age is estimated to be greater than 545 million years. Foelsche is named after the nearby Foelsche River. Read more Latitude: ...
Flaxman is a 10 km diameter meteorite crater in South Australia. Its age is estimated to be greater than 35 million years (probably Eocene). The crater is exposed at the surface. Source Latitude: 34° 37' S, Longitude: E 139° 4' E...
Crawford is a 8.5 km diameter impact crater near Adelaide in South Australia, Australia. Its age is estimated to be greater than 35 million years (Eocene). The crater is exposed at the surface. Source Latitude: 34°43'03"S...
Lake Wanapitei occupies a meteorite crater in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It is located near the large Sudbury meteorite crater but is not related to it. The crater is 8.37 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 37.2 ± 1.2 million years, placing it in the Eocene. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w...
Logancha is a meteorite crater in Siberia, Russia. It is 20 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 40 ± 20 million years old (Eocene). The crater is not exposed at the surface. Source Latitude: 65°31'N, Longitude: 95°56'E
Shunak is a meteorite impact crater located in the south-eastern part of Qaraghandy Province in Kazakhstan. It is 2.8 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 45 ± 10 million years (Eocene). The crater is exposed at the surface. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunak_crater]Source[/ur...
Ragozinka is a meteorite crater in the Urals in Russia. It is 9 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 46 ± 3 million years old (Eocene). The crater is not exposed at the surface. Source Latitude: 58°44'N, Longitude: 61°48'E
Beyenchime-Salaatin is an impact crater (astrobleme) in the Russian Far East. It is 8 kilometres in diameter and is estimated to be 40 ± 20 million years old (Eocene). The crater is exposed at the surface. Source Latitu...
"Catastrophic coincidence" seems barely adequate to describe that day 30 million years ago. While volcanoes were spewing floods of magma over southern Arabia, a meteorite was hurtling through space towards central Europe. It was only in the last year that researchers have been able t...
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