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Gosses Bluff II

The meteor strike that created Gosses Bluff happened about 142 million years ago and, so the geologists tell us, devastated an area of over 8 square miles. The original crater was about four times its current diameter, but erosion over millions of years has reduced it to its current size.

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Uploaded on October 27, 2006
Taken on July 5, 2005