pretty good overlay for Barringer crater Arizona.

EDIT: hi-res imagery on GE, Overlay not the best fited.

The Meteor Crater, sometimes known as the Barringer Crater and formerly as the Canyon Diablo crater, is a famous impact crater, located about 35 miles (55 km) east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert (USA). The crater is somewhat misnamed, as it was actually excavated by a meteorite, not a meteor.

The crater is about 1,200 m (4,000 ft) in diameter, and some 170 m deep (570 ft). It is surrounded by a 45 m (150 ft) high rim of rock, raised above the surrounding plains by the force of the impact. The bottom of the crater is filled with rubble from the impact, to a depth of 213-244 m (700-800 ft) below the crater's center.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barringer_Crater


ANOTHER GREAT SITE!

g

related GEC links HERE and HERE

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hi!

i have foud something additional.

"PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE LATE PLEISTOCENE LAKE SEDIMENTS DEPOSITED IN BARRINGER CRATER, COCONINO COUNTY, ARIZONA."

in this post i would like to introduce an interesting study and an overlay earned from it on this theme.


The crater was partially filled with impact breccia, which was later covered by 20 - 30 m of lake sediment.
credit and more HERE...

see ya!

g

Thank you for the new information, and for not stacking it right on top of the crater itself!!!
This one of my favorite sites, I have several overlays here myself (on my machine).
One is a Thermal from NASA, another meteorite finds out to about 12 mile radius.

P.S. Like your Handle, it's the license plate on my Star Party Van

Think cosmic,
TomT
(Starmon)

That is an outstanding photo overlay. I was there recently and your overlay makes it look almost exactly as I remember.
On an unrelated note, in the visitor center is a Subway Sandwich franchise. Most times I have been to a Subway, the food was poor to mediocre at best.
The food there was outstanding. Maybe it was the desert sun addling my brain?

thank you Starmon digging this old one out and dgt for culinarinfos!
glad you two have found it interesting!

however it clearly can bee seen, this one is one of my first ones:
i have uploaded it from HDD without giving a credit to the image and i cannot find the source anymore...

please help me find it and save me from rotting in jail!

image information:
1200X1178 pixels
6,058X5,946 inches
198,1 pixels/inch
24/16 millon pixel depth/colors
633 KB

thanks!

if some would think Barringer crater
is just a useless hole on the ground, then check it out:
watery martian crater in 3D

some threads from GEC Starmon would find boring:
NLC alert & The Iranian Mistery Cloud
APOD - the best ever astronomy pics
McNaught Now Brightest Comet in Decades
New Phenomena on the Sun - MOVIES
Saturn - 3d Model, GE4
Bizarre Hexagon Spotted on Saturn

see you!

g

P.S.: cool license plate!