Most beautiful impact craters - Google Earth pictures - 1. Africa

Here are the 13 most beautiful impact craters of Africa (of a total of 21 confirmed), taken from Google Earth, and ranked in decreasing size.
I've put for each of them their principal characteristics, such as diameter, estimated age, target rock and bolide type when known.
Ages in millions of years (Ma) before present.
Diameter in Kilometers.
Abbreviations: C - Crystalline Target; C-Ms - Metasedimentary Target; M - Mixed Target (i.e.sedimentary strata overlying crystalline basement); S - sedimentary target

Enjoy!

1. Vredefort, South Africa



- Age: 2023 ± 4
- Diameter: 300
- Coordinates: S 27° 0' E 27° 30'
- Target Rock: M
- Bolide Type: Chondrite

2. Oasis, Lybia



- Age:

You forgot Lac Manicouagan



And Lac à l'Eau Claire



Both in Quebec, Canada.

reply to post by jadedANDcynical


Those are nice, but the OP was specifically looking at Africa.

reply to post by jjkenobi


(sits in corner wearing dunca cap) d'oh

that's what I get for not reading in full before posting...

reply to post by elevenaugust


HI and thanks.
I honestly didn't know there were that many craters in africa. Makes ya think when the next one's gonna hit.!
Great post star and well i can't flag yet but hay ho

Don't get too worried, seems like most of the craters are millions of years old. Besides if an asteroid came at us now Bruce Willis would fly into space and jack it up before it could make a new crater.

I used to live in the Vredeford dome. Not in the town of Vredeford, but in Parys. At the time, I did not even know that I was in the crater!

reply to post by elevenaugust


This thread is really nice, with a lot of work and research put into it. Why just three stars and only one flag until I found it? Some very good threads get lost by either not being on the "New Topic" page (only eight topics are listed at a time! There is room for at least 20).

Again, a nice thread, thanks for organizing it.

Originally posted by Aleister
reply to post by elevenaugust

 

This thread is really nice, with a lot of work and research put into it. Why just three stars and only one flag until I found it? Some very good threads get lost by either not being on the "New Topic" page (only eight topics are listed at a time! There is room for at least 20).

Again, a nice thread, thanks for organizing it.

edit on 16-5-2012 by Aleister because: edit

Thank you very much!
At least there are five people interested here!
I currently working on the part 2 about the impact craters on Asia/Russia. There are some beautiful too over there!

reply to post by elevenaugust


Oh please do, I'll be looking out for more threads on this. Thanks.