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The following craters are officially considered "unconfirmed" because they are not listed in the Earth Impact Database. Due to stringent requirements regarding evidence and peer-reviewed publication, newly discovered craters or those with difficulty collecting evidence generally are known for some time before becoming listed.
Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, is an impact crater about 37 mi (60 km) east of Flagstaff and 18 mi (29 km) west of Winslow in the desert of northern Arizona, United States. The site had several earlier names, and fragments of the meteorite are officially called the Canyon Diablo Meteorite , after the adjacent Canyon Diablo .
The Middlesboro crater (or astrobleme) is a meteorite crater in Kentucky, United States. [2] It is named after the city of Middlesboro, Kentucky, which today occupies much of the crater. The crater is approximately 3 miles (about 5 km) wide and its age is estimated to be less than 300 million years . The impactor is estimated to have been about ...
United States 7 323 - 485 Decaturville: 6 less than 323 Decorah: Iowa United States 5.6 464-467 Deep Bay: Saskatchewan Canada 13 95-102 Dellen: Gavleborgs Sweden 19 140.82 ± 0.51 Des Plaines: Illinois United States 8 less than 299 Dhala: Madhya Pradesh India 11 1700 - 2500 Dobele: Dobele Latvia 4.5 252 - 359 Douglas Wyoming United States 16 ...
Upheaval Dome is an enigmatic geological structure in San Juan County, Utah, United States, that has been variously interpreted as a meteorite impact structure or a salt dome. The structure lies 22 miles (35 km) southwest of the city of Moab, Utah, in the Island in the Sky section of Canyonlands National Park.
Researchers located the world’s only mountaintop impact crater. A study of the shock pattern data in quartz minerals confirms that the impact was a meteor.
The Chesapeake Bay impact crater is a buried impact crater, located beneath the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, United States. It was formed by a bolide that struck the eastern shore of North America about 35.5 ± 0.3 million years ago, in the late Eocene epoch. It is one of the best-preserved "wet-target" impact craters in the world. [3]
The site is now considered a “strong contender” to be a meteorite impact crater. ... Of the world’s roughly 200 impact craters, 31 are located in Canada. Quebec itself has 10 other known ...