Foelsche crater

- 16.67136.78Koordinaten: 16 ° 40 ' 12 " S, 136 ° 46' 48" E

Foelsche is a heavily eroded and mostly spilled impact crater in northern Australia. The structure is located in the Northern Territory and is named after the Foelsche River nearby. Little of the former is visible crater in the surface and can not be seen, the circular shape. Images were created by flying over with a magnetometer, showed the circular structure and led to the discovery of the crater. The impact took place in the flat lying sedimentary rocks of the magnetic here McArthur Basin, which was penetrated and thus generated the magnetic anomaly. Deformed sandstones and breccias are located in the northern area and are remnants of the crater rim, which originally had about 6 km in diameter. Testimony to the impact origin of the structure provide shocked quartz, which eroded from the crater floor and now fill as sedimentary rocks of the crater. The impact was more than 545 million years ago.

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• Impact structures of the world Database by Jarmo Molianen Accessed on 13 October 2010
• Earth Impact Database Retrieved on October 7, 2013
• Haines PW, Rawlings DJ ( 2002) The Foelsche structure, Northern Territory, Australia: an impact crater of probable Neoproterozoic age. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 37: 269-280. doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb01109.x

• Impact craters in Australia
• Geography ( Northern Territory )