Elbow crater

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Circle shows the approximate rim of Elbow crater. There is no surface expression of the structure. Elbow crater LC08 L1TP 037024 20181006 20181010 01 T1.jpg
Circle shows the approximate rim of Elbow crater. There is no surface expression of the structure.

Elbow is a meteorite crater just north of the village of Riverhurst in Saskatchewan, Canada.

The crater is 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) in diameter with an age estimated to be 395 ± 25 million years (during the Devonian Period). The crater is buried beneath younger sediments and is not exposed at the surface. [1]

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References

  1. "Elbow crater". Earth Impact Database . Planetary and Space Science Centre University of New Brunswick Fredericton . Retrieved 2019-04-25.

Coordinates: 50°59′N106°43′W / 50.983°N 106.717°W / 50.983; -106.717