Deep Bay crater

Deep Bay crater

Deep Bay is a bay near the south-western tip of Reindeer Lake in Saskatchewan, Canada. The bay is strikingly circular and very deep (220 m) in an otherwise irregular and shallow lake.

The bay was formed in a 13 km wide impact crater. The age of the crater is estimated to be 99 ± 4 million years (Cretaceous).[1]

References

  1. ^ "Deep Bay". Earth Impact Database. University of New Brunswick. http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/deepbay.html. Retrieved 2011-10-22. 

Coordinates: 56°24′N 102°59′W / 56.4°N 102.983°W / 56.4; -102.983 (Deep Bay)

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