Was this an impact?

jim · Post #1by **jim** » 24.03.2003, 21:11

Hi all,

While i'm playing with Celestia and testing new textures i found this interesting geological formation. I don't know but it looks like an impact crater. Does someone know more about this?

Bye Jens

billybob884 · Post #2by **billybob884** » 25.03.2003, 00:43

would you mind posting where it is?

Post #3by **granthutchison** » 25.03.2003, 00:49

It's Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. Not marked as an impact basin on a couple of maps I own - just a division in the northern end of the Andes, with an embayment between, it seems.

Grant

Don. Edwards · Post #4by **Don. Edwards** » 25.03.2003, 02:49

I don't believe it is.
But there is a well known one off the egde of Hudson Bay North America.

John Van Vliet · Post #5by **John Van Vliet** » 28.03.2003, 21:46

There is also the one near the yuactan penclilla (65mil years old ) ring a bell
that one is only the most lickey canidat for the dinorsor killer .

Don. Edwards · Post #6by **Don. Edwards** » 29.03.2003, 16:16

Yah yah yah!
But the Chicxulub crater basin is baried. Its not visible from the surface only by ground penatrating radar I believe. I think this was going in the direction of visible craters.

Calculus · Post #7by **Calculus** » 29.03.2003, 18:31

There are almost 200 identified impact craters on Earth. I made shots of the biggest ones with Celestia but they are not very good. The best I have is located in Northern Quebec, Canada.