The Craters on Earth: New Atlas Presents and Explains the Impact Sites of Meteorites and Asteroids Worldwide

SciTechDaily ^ | 08 November 2020 | UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG

[zeestephen]

The authors present the more than 200 terrestrial impact sites in high-resolution topographic maps and satellite images, complete with detailed geological descriptions and photographs of the crater structures and their rocks. They also explain the essential details of each impact event.

[zeestephen]

Physical map of the Serra da Cangalha, Brazil, impact structure, produced using the TanDEM-X mission digital elevation model. Credit: Gottwald, Kenkmann, Reimold: Terrestrial Impact Structures, The TanDEM-X Atlas, Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil:

[Red Badger]

http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/New%20website_05-2018/Criteria.html

[Red Badger]

I think Birmingham Alabama sits in a unknown crater...................

[FreedomNotSafety]

Surveyed the entire planet surface to within one meter. Amazing. Wonder what else they learned? That data will be analyzed for years to come.

[FreedomPoster]

Anyone else immediately see the fractal nature of the geology/topography in the image from having read James Gleick’s Chaos many years ago?

https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Making-Science-James-Gleick/dp/0143113453

[zeestephen]

Thanks for posting the link, Badger.

First time I have seen that “Earth impact” website.

[Red Badger]

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-can-i-tell-if-i-have-found-impact-crater-0?qt-news_science_products=0#qt-news_science_products

[Red Badger]

Still can’t find Jimmy Hoffa..................

[Red Badger]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-31655-4

[blam]

Maybe this one, eh?

Wetumpka

[Red Badger]

https://www.google.com/maps/place/42%C2%B040’38.0%22N+105%C2%B028’00.0%22W/@42.6767471,-105.9420879,189729m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d42.6772222!4d-105.4666667

[Red Badger]

CHECK THIS OUT:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Birmingham,+AL/@33.5314928,-89.0920699,860485m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x0:0x0!2zNDLCsDQwJzM4LjAiTiAxMDXCsDI4JzAwLjAiVw!3b1!8m2!3d42.6772222!4d-105.4666667!3m4!1s0x888911df5885bfd3:0x25507409eaba54ce!8m2!3d33.5184992!4d-86.8112183

LOOK AT THE SURROUNDING ‘MOUNTAIN’ RANGE, A NEAR PERFECT CIRCLE!....................

[Mr. K]

Look at the number of craters on the moon. The earth has been hit at least as many times.

Out atmosphere takes care of a lot of the smaller ones before they hit. But the larger ones would have hit.

The atmosphere is also responsible for eroding away signs of past impacts. So if erosion can get rid of signs of so many impacts then it could clearly remove signs of previous civilizations.

But Africa has a ‘grid’ on it that doe not look natural at all- it looks like a previous man-made water system.

[zeestephen]

LOL - that Google “debris field” looks suspiciously like railroad gravel to me.

[Red Badger]

Well, the gravel had to come from somewhere........................

[Red Badger]

Wetumpka is small, and may be a part of the larger immense crater..............

[spankalib]

Yes! Looked eerily like a Mandelbrot set.

[FreedomPoster]

I was hoping there would be at least one!

[SunkenCiv]

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[Tijeras_Slim]

Or Judge Crater.