Santa Fe impact structure

35.75 - 105.93333333333Koordinaten: 35 ° 45 '0 "N, 105 ° 56 ' 0 " W

The Santa Fe impact structure is a heavily eroded remnant of an impact crater in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains northeast of Santa Fe ( New Mexico). In 2005 discovered a geologist at the road cut of the New Mexico State Highway 475 between Santa Fe and Hyde Memorial State Park, cone of rays that can arise only when a meteorite impact in a natural way. The age of the impact structure is estimated to be 1.4 to 1.6 billion years. The basement rocks of the former crater now forms a mountainous region. The cone of rays can be found at a distance of about a mile (1.6 km) and are used as the central area of a formerly larger crater interpreted.