Bedout

- 18.18119.25Koordinaten: 18 ° 10 ' 48 " S, 119 ° 15' 0" E

The Bedout structure is a geological formation 250 km northwest of the coast of Australia in Roebuckbecken. It is a 200 km wide, approximately circular depression of the sea floor, with a central elevation.

The structure may be incurred before about 250 million years ago by the impact of a large meteorite. The effects of the impact could have caused the mass extinction at the Permian-Triassic boundary.

Among scientists, is discussed since 2006, whether the impact of the hypothetical Wilke country meteorites in Antarctica caused this mass extinction. But maybe were both strikes, possibly shifted in time, its responsible.