Beaverhead crater

44.25 - 114Koordinaten: 44 ° 15 '0 "N, 114 ° 0 ' 0 " W

Beaverhead is an impact crater in the center of the State of Idaho and the west of the State of Montana in the United States.

With an estimated diameter of 60 kilometers of the Beaverhead Crater is one of the largest impact craters in the world. The age of the crater is estimated to be about 600 million years.

His name has the structure of Beaverhead County, Montana, where the first evidence of an impact in 1990 were discovered. In addition to the to be found at the edge rays bowling is nothing more to see at the surface of the crater.

Swell

  • Carr, J and Link, PK, 1999, Neoproterozoic conglomerate and breccia in the formation of Leaton Gulch, Grouse Peak, northern Lost River Range, Idaho: Relation to Beaverhead Impact Structure, in Hughes, SS, and Thackray, GD, eds. Guidebook to the Geology of Eastern Idaho: Pocatello, Idaho Museum of natural History, p. 21-29.
  • Beaverhead. In: Earth Impact Database. Retrieved on 13 September 2007. ( Only for the map )
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