[meteorite-list] New detected meteorite crater?

From: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:10:26 +0200
Message-ID: <4D972042.6020709_at_wanadoo.nl>

> Hi list members.
> At position 21?35'42.75"N; 35?10'2.75"E a ring of hills is visible with a diameter of 6 miles. It might be an undetected meteorite crater.
> m42protosun

These are igneous (volcanic) intrusive syenite, gabbro and granite structures
about 230 to 140 million years old. You can actually see several of them as
circular of elliptic structures in that area. They are roughly distributed on an
old fault line perpendicular to the Red Sea.

See a.o.:

  H?hndorf et al. (1994), Journal of African Earth Sciences 19, 3-15.
  Vail et al. (1978), Geologische Rundschau 67, 521-530.

- Marco

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