- Yugorsky Peninsula
The Yugorsky Peninsula ( _ru. Югорский полуостров) is a large peninsula in
Nenets Autonomous Okrug ,Russia . It is limited by theKhaypudyr Bay in thePechora Sea to the west and by the Baydaratsk Bay in theKara Sea to the north and east. Latitude : 68° 40' Longitude : 62° 15'Compared to the
Barents Sea , which receives relatively warm currents from theAtlantic Ocean , the Kara Sea is much colder, remaining frozen for over nine months a year. Thus often, in the spring and in the fall, the eastern coast of the Yugorsky Peninsula is frozen, while its western coast is clear of ice.The
Yugorsky Strait and, beyond it,Vaygach Island lie at the northwestern end of this peninsula.In the southeastern end of the Yugorsky Peninsula lies the Kara Meteorite Crater, 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)References
* Permafrost: [http://nsidc.org/data/ggd189_ggd.html] ]
* Ground ice: [http://www.hi.is/~oi/PDF%20reprints/Ingolfsson%20&%20Lokrantz.pdf]
* Kara and Ust-Kara impact structures: [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2002/pdf/1480.pdf] , [http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/planets/impact3.htm] & [http://www.somerikko.net/old/geo/imp/refer.htm]
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