Oasis crater
Oasis is a meteorite crater in Libya. The crater is exposed at the surface, and has been significantly eroded. The prominent topographic ring is only the central uplift, which is about 5.2 km (~3 miles) in diameter, while the original crater rim is estimated to have been 18 km (~11 miles) in diameter. The age is estimated to be less than 120 million years (Lower Cretaceous).[1]
Landsat image of the Oasis crater; screen capture from NASA World Wind
Oblique Landsat image of Oasis crater draped over digital elevation model (x5 vertical exaggeration); screen capture from NASA World Wind
References
- "Oasis". Earth Impact Database. Planetary and Space Science Centre University of New Brunswick Fredericton. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
External links
- Anonymous (nd) Africa (Impact Craters), Earth Impact Database, Planetary and Space Science Centre Archived 2010-02-12 at the Wayback Machine, University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Stephan van Gasselt; Jung Rack Kim; Yun-Soo Choi; Jaemyeong Kim (2017). "The Oasis impact structure, Libya: geological characteristics from ALOS PALSAR-2 data interpretation". Earth, Planets and Space. 69 (35). doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0620-8.
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