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Impact Craters
16 Sites
Sufficiently powerful asteroid and comet impacts can change the surface of the earth, creating craters and modifying rocks and soil.
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Solar System Collisions
- Online calculator for effects of asteroid impact.
Meteor Crater
- Official site for the visitors center at the Barringer meteor crater. Short history, animations, visitor information.
Terrestrial Impact Craters
- Text describing formation of impact craters. Images, glossary.
Reuben Johnson's K/T Expedition -- 2001
- Background info on the Chicxulub impact crater at the K/T (Cretaceous/Tertiary) boundary with photos of the 2001 NASA/Planetary Society expedition to Belize and Mexico to study and gather ejecta samples.
Meteor Crater
- Images and short explanations of geologic features near the rim of the Barringer meteor crater.
Geology 376 - 2001 Field Trip
- Travelogue of a geology class field trip to the Barringer meteor crater. Images, crater description, topographic map.
Terrestrial Impact Craters
- Background information, images, list of craters, references.
Impact Structures
- Geology, geophysics, and petrology of impact structures (meteorite impact craters) with special focus on the Azuara and Rubielos de la Cérida impact structures (Spain)
Traces of Catastrophe
- Online book. Detailed introduction and overview of impact processes, crater formation, and shock metamorphism.
Terrestrial Impact Cratering and Its Environmental Effects
- World map of impact sites, details on the Chicxulub site, and details on environmental effects of impacts.
The Chiemgau impact
- Geographic, geologic, geophysical, mineralogical-petrographic, geochemical, astronomical and historical characteristics of a Holocene notable asteroid/comet impact and the role of the discovery in the scientific discussion.
Impact Parameters
- Online calculator for cratering effects of hypothetical asteroid impacts.
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Barringer Crater on Earth
- Aerial photograph.
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Manicouagan Impact Crater on Earth
- Image taken from space shuttle Columbia in 1983.
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Impact: 65 Million Years Ago
- Computer rendering of Chicxulub crater, from gravity and magnetic field data.
Earth Impact Database
- Crater names, location, size, and age. Background information, images, FAQ.
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Near Earth Objects
Astronomy : Solar System : Small Bodies
19 Sites
Large Near Earth Object Impacts
Society : Future : Catastrophes
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