- Kara crater
Kara is a
meteor crater in theYugorsky Peninsula ,Nenetsia , Russia.It is 65 km in
diameter and the age is estimated to be 70.3 ± 2.2million year s old (Upper Cretaceous ).Impactite outcrops located on the Baydarata Gulf shore north-east of the crater imply that the original size of the crater, now greatly eroded, was 120 km in diameter [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2003/pdf/1057.pdf] . The crater is not exposed to the surface.The Kara crater lies in the southeastern end of the Yugorsky Peninsula, while the Ust-Kara site lies offshore, 15 km east of the small Kara or
Karskaya Guba inlet. It was formerly believed that these two sites were two separate craters and that they formed a twin impact structure from a large-scale meteorite hit in the latecretaceous . However, it seems that the Ust-Kara site does not exist as a separate site. Apparently, the Suevite outcrops of the Ust-Kara impact structure are only a part of the Kara impact structure. (Hodge 1994 and NASA 1988)External links
* [http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/ Earth Impact Database]
* [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2002/pdf/1480.pdf/ The Kara Crater Size: Suevite layer outside the crater depression]
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