Elbow crater
Encyclopedia
Elbow is a meteorite
crater
just north of the village of Riverhurst in Saskatchewan
, Canada
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The crater is 8 kilometres (5 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.
Meteorite
A meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives impact with the Earth's surface. Meteorites can be big or small. Most meteorites derive from small astronomical objects called meteoroids, but they are also sometimes produced by impacts of asteroids...
crater
Impact crater
In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...
just north of the village of Riverhurst in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
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The crater is 8 kilometres (5 mi) in diameter with an age estimated to be 395 ± 25 million years (during the Devonian
Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic Era spanning from the end of the Silurian Period, about 416.0 ± 2.8 Mya , to the beginning of the Carboniferous Period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Mya...
Period). The crater is buried beneath younger sediments and is not exposed at the surface.