[meteorite-list] New detected meteorite crater?

[Marco Langbroek]

> Hi list members.
> At position  21?35'42.75"N;  35?10'2.75"E a ring of hills is visible with a diameter of 6 miles. It might be an undetected meteorite crater.
> m42protosun

These are igneous (volcanic) intrusive syenite, gabbro and granite structures 
about 230 to 140 million years old. You can actually see several of them as 
circular of elliptic structures in that area. They are roughly distributed on an 
old fault line perpendicular to the Red Sea.

See a.o.:

  Höhndorf et al. (1994), Journal of African Earth Sciences 19, 3-15.
  Vail et al. (1978), Geologische Rundschau 67, 521-530.

- Marco

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Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek
Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)

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