Google Earth Community: 3 Extra Impact Sites

Too often someone will post an assumed meteorite impact site, without even being aware of the International Meteorite Impact Database. If its not listed, its not an impact site. Here are three additional potential impact sites, based on credible scientific findings.
May 2006: Geologists, using satellite data, found a massive crater in Antarctica. The crater, hidden more than a mile beneath the ice, is 300 miles in diameter.
The crater dates back about 250 million years to the time of the Permian-Triassic extinction, when almost all animal life on Earth died, paving the way for dinosaurs to rise to prominence.
This impact is much bigger than the impact that killed the dinosaurs.
In Tasmania, near Mount Darwin, is the so-called Darwin Glass strewn in a splatter pattern. A potential meteorite crater is nearby. Details on these natural phenomena are considered "Neglected Geological Anomalies."______
Uncheck the icon, then check the Geographic Features box and zoom in to see Mount Darwin labled.
Great Sand Sea Meteorite Impact Site, Saad Plateau, Sahara. In December 1932, scientists recognized a mystery among the giant dunes of the Sahara. Glass is strewn across hundreds of kilometers of desert. Ink-like inclusions are rich in iridium, which is diagnostic of an extraterrestrial impact, this one 30 my BP. Desert glass is the only evidence of the imapct. No trace of a crater or shock rim; eroded by water, and buried by sand and rock.

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Pic is Mount Diablo, California; it is also the point setting for my snapshot default, because it is one of the most meaningful geographic places in the world.

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