La Moinerie crater

Impact crater

Lac La Moinerie ( in the Inuit language Ammaluaq - " Round Lake " ) is a lake in the northeast of the Nunavik region in the administrative region of Nord -du -Québec of the Canadian province of Quebec.

The circular lake has a diameter of 9 km and a surface of 60 km ². Its outflow, the river Rivière Danguy, leads north to the neighboring lake Lac Guers and on to the Rivière Marralik.

The lake is located in an impact crater, which originated in the Silurian or Devonian in front of 400 ± 50 million years ago. The original crater diameter is estimated at 8 km.