Kärdla crater
Kärdla is a meteorite crater near the town of Kärdla in Estonia.
It is 4 km (2.5 mi) in diameter and its age is estimated to be about 455 million years (Late Ordovician). The crater is not exposed at the surface.[1]
Its formation has been associated with the breakdown of 100km asteroid, that might have also resulted in the Tvären and Lockne craters in Sweden among others.[2]
References
- ↑ "Kärdla". Earth Impact Database. University of New Brunswick. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- ↑ A rain of L-Chondrites in the Thorsberg quarry at Kinnekulle, southern Sweden-Thomas Müller TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany.
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