Alhama de Almería - Hypervelocity Impact Crater

Alternate Names N/A
Coordinates 36° 58' 39" N; 2° 32' 53" W
Country Spain
Region Almería
Date Confirmed 2023
Buried? No
Drilled? No
Target Type Sedimentary
Sub-Type Limestone
Apparent Crater Diameter (km) 22 km
Age (Ma) ∼8 Ma
Notes :
  1. Late Tortonian

Method :
  1. Stratigraphy
Impactor Type Unknown

Advanced Data Fields

Notes

Local Language
N/A
Erosion
Unknown
Final Rim Diameter
Unknown
Apparent Rim Diameter
22 km
Rim Reliability Index
Unknown
Crater Morphology
Complex
Central Uplift Diameter
2.4 km
Central Uplift Height
Unknown
Uplift Reliability Index
Unknown
Structural Uplift
Unknown
Thickness of Seds
Unknown
Target Age
Triassic
Marine
No
Impactor Type
Unknown
Other Shock Metamorphism
Unknown
Shatter Cones
No
Planar Fractures
No
Planar Deformation Features
Yes
Diaplectic Glass
No
Coesite
No
Stisovite
No
Crater Fill
Unknown
Proximal Ejecta
Unknown
Distal Ejecta
Unknown
Dykes
Unknown
Volume of Melt
Unknown
Depth of Melting
Unknown

References

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Sebastián Tomás Sánchez Gómez, Jens Ormö, Carl Alwmark, Sanna Holm-Alwmark, Gabriel Zachén, Robert Lilljequist, Juan Antonio Sánchez Garrido (2023) A possible 5 km wide impact structure with associated 22 km wide exterior collapse terrain in the Alhabia–Tabernas Basin, southeastern Spain, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, University of Arkansa, doi:10.1111/maps.14063