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I liked looking at maps as a kid and I remember thinking it was funny how the lakes in our region kind of forms a circle. I later learned that my home town is
by andrelaszlo 8y ago
I liked looking at maps as a kid and I remember thinking it was funny how the lakes in our region kind of forms a circle.
I later learned that my home town is on the edge of Europe's largest impact crater. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siljan_Ring https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siljan_Ring
Most people seem to just... not care. :)
- maxxxxx 8y agoClose to where I grew up there is the Nördlinger Ries https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B6rdlinger_Ries https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B6rdlinger_Ries. It looks pretty obvious on maps and when we made school trip there I was really disappointed that you have to look really hard to recognize it. I thought it would look like the meteor crater in Arizona.
- empath75 8y agoThe Chesapeake bay is another one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_impact_crater https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_impact_crater
- mirimir 8y agoAnd linked from there, the Toms Canyon impact crater:[0] > The crater dates to the late Eocene geological time period (about 35 million years ago), and may have been formed by the same event as the larger Chesapeake Bay impact crater (and possibly the Popigai crater in Siberia), 320 kilometres (200 mi) to the southwest at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, and also dating to the late Eocene. 0) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toms_Canyon_impact_crater https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toms_Canyon_impact_crater
- 8bitsrule 8y agoI've been suspicious about this thing in Canada ever since I first saw it. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=8/51.308/-69.247 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=8/51.308/-69.247 Nowadays they're eyeing closely something SW of it, underwater, in the St. Laurence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corossol_crater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corossol_crater
- involans 8y agoI've never understood why that structure isn't more famous. It is a mind-bendingly enormous structure.
- raghava 8y agoAlso - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonar_Lake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonar_Lake "Lonar Lake, also known as Lonar crater, is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument[1][2][3] saline soda lake located at Lonar in Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India, which was created by a meteor impact during the Pleistocene Epoch[4] and it is the only known hyper velocity impact crater in basaltic rock anywhere on Earth.[5]"
- DaveInTucson 8y agoAn annular lake is a circular lake caused by the impact of a meteor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annular_lake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annular_lake
- mannykannot 8y agoWhenever I cross the Atlantic westwards, I hope to see the Manicouagan crater in Quebec. https://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/geology/sgeo/slide_18.html https://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/geology/sgeo...