Earth Sciences: Geology: Geomorphology: Impact Craters

Crater names, location, size, and age. Background information, images, FAQ.

Text describing formation of impact craters. Images, glossary.

Background info on the Chicxulub impact crater at the K/T (Cretaceous/Tertiary) boundary with photos of the 2001 NASA/Planetary Society expedition to Belize and Mexico to study and gather ejecta samples.

Investigates the possibility they have been caused by comet fragments.

Official site for the visitors center at the Barringer meteor crater. Short history, animations, visitor information.

Travelogue of a geology class field trip to the Barringer meteor crater. Images, crater description, topographic map.

The answer given in an article from Scientific American.

Computer rendering of Chicxulub crater, from gravity and magnetic field data.

Image taken from space shuttle Columbia in 1983.

Aerial photograph.

A program that relates crater size to projectile size.

A 2km diameter impact crater in India. Background information, tourism, scientific literature, student guide.

Background information, images, list of craters, references.

Geology, geophysics, and petrology of impact structures (meteorite impact craters) with special focus on the Azuara and Rubielos de la Cérida impact structures (Spain)

Online calculator for cratering effects of hypothetical asteroid impacts.

Online calculator for effects of asteroid impact.

Images and descriptions of craters in Africa, research activities of the terrestrial impact cratering research group of the University of the Witwatersrand.

Online book. Detailed introduction and overview of impact processes, crater formation, and shock metamorphism.