New Quebec Crater
Friday, 27th May 2005 by Alex Turnbull
Formely known as Chubb crater, the New Quebec Crater has a rim diameter of 3.4 kilometers and is estimated to be about 1.4 million years old. It's also filled with a 250-meter-deep lake. That's a big old hole.
There's a whole list of crater locations available at the Earth Impact Database, complete with latitudes and longtitudes...
Thanks to Stavro, Michel Bochud and Dominic (from the comments).
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WOW! Never seen one so perfectly round as this one.
Heh – I’ve been looking at some of the craters in the Earth Impact database. The few I’ve seen have all been just outside of the high detail areas. Oh, well…
Here’s one (a tiny one) in high resolution: the Odessa Crater in Texas: View Placemark
Don’t forget the biggest meteor impact of the Québec :
View Placemark
Actually, this one was renamed the Pingualuit Crater in 1999. It’s accepted that the bottom of the crater remained liquid water while most of North America was covered by glaciers so it’s untouched and contains climate data in sediment going back 250,000 years.
More good info can be found at the RASC-Ottawa Centre website.
http://ottawa.rasc.ca/articles/odale_chuck/earth_craters/pingualuit/index.html