[meteorite-list] Meteorite crater mystery/trip

[ensoramanda]

Hi All,

Can anyone help to identify the structure I photographed in the link at 
the end of this post?

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year.  I have just managed 
to plough through the huge backlog of posts from everyone after a 5 week 
trip to Australia via Hongkong. I managed to visit many meteorite 
related sites on the journey...the Cranbourne strewn field and display 
just south of Melbourne...passed by Pinnaroo and Karoonda and through to 
Adelaide for a look at their huge Mundrabilla and a great meteorite 
display...then drove on up for a walk around the Henbury Craters and 
Alice Springs...another good display there at the Museum in the Cultural 
centre...fantastic selection of Henburys. The second part of the trip 
was  on the West coast  and Perth....another amazing museum full of 
space rocks there...with the other large Mundrabilla alongside many 
others from the Nullabor. Futher north we had a good day walking around 
the Pinacles..a very surreal landscape and the site of another meteorite 
find.  All in all a memorable trip with loads of photographs and 3000 
miles of driving!. I will try and upload some of the collections we 
visited and post links if anybody is interested.

Anyway...back to the original request.  On the Dec 1st flight out to Oz 
we passed over northern China...a wonderful view of the mountains and 
deserts from 35000 ft. Again I took far too many photographs out of the 
plane window...but caught this shot of a very interesting structure, 
which looks incredibly like a huge impact crater or astobleme to me. I 
have not been able to confirm what it is and wondered if anyone else on 
the list had ever seen it or could identify it? Been trying google earth 
but no luck yet. The scale can be judged to some extent by the small 
settlement nearer the foreground.

Here's the link...

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o43/LaburnumStudio/Craters/Crater-.jpg

Hope those of you heading for Tucson this time have as good a time as I 
had last year. Sadly I cant make it.

Regards

Graham Ensor, Nr Barwell UK.