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 (Upper 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

  1. ↑ "Kärdla". Earth Impact Database. University of New Brunswick. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
  2. ↑ A rain of L-Chondrites in the Thorsberg quarry at Kinnekulle, southern Sweden-Thomas Müller TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany.

Coordinates: 59°1′N 22°46′E / 59.017°N 22.767°E / 59.017; 22.767

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