The 7 Most Impressive Impact Craters On Earth

When we think about meteorites, we usually associate destruction and devastation with them. However the craters, which these meteorites impact leave behind, can sometimes be a thing of veritable beauty.Here we present you a list of the 7 most impressive impact craters that can be found on our planet.

The Barringer crater with a depth of 180m can be found in Coconino County, Arizona. The impact happened around 50,000 years ago.

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The Pingualuit Crater in northern Québec, Canada, has diameter of 3,44km. The crater lies around 160m over the surrounding tundra.

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The Clearwater Craters, also located in Québec, actually results from two separate, but probably related, meteorite impacts.

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The Lonar crater located in Buldana district, Maharashtra, India, was created by a meteor impact during the Pleistocene Epoch. The lake inside the crater lies in a basalt impact structure.

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The Wolfe Creek Crater in Western Australia measures 875 meters in diameter. Its the result of an the impact, which took place about 300,000 years ago.

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The Amguid Crater, is a relatively young perfect circular crater with an impact about 100,000 years ago. In can be found in southwest Algeria.

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The Kaali Crater, created by a meteorite between the 4th and 8th century lies in a forrest on the estonian island of Saaremaa.

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