Meteorite impact
WHS that show effects of meteorite impact.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains | meteorite-impact fallback breccias dating to just after the end of The Great Bombardment (4.6 to 3.8 billion years ago) (AB ev) | |
| Central Sikhote-Alin | Sikhote-Alin is an iron meteorite that fell in 1947 on the Sikhote-Alin Mountains in southeastern Siberia (wiki) | |
| Lenggong Valley | A meteorite strike 1.83 million b.p. blocked and diverted the river preserving Palaeolithic tools at Bukit Bunuh(Unesco website) | |
| Purnululu National Park | Piccaninny Crater | |
| Stevns Klint | a globally exceptional representation of the evidence of the Chixulub meteorite impact that took place at the end of the Cretaceous Period, c.67 million years ago (OUV) | |
| Tajik National Park | Karakul (Black Lake) lies within a circular depression interpreted as a meteorite impact crater with a rim diameter of 52 km (32 mi). The impact event is estimated to have occurred about 25 million years ago, or less than 5 million years ago. The Karakul impact structure remained unidentified until it was discovered through studies of imagery taken from space. (wiki) | |
| Tasmanian Wilderness | There is a large meteorite impact crater of Pleistocene age in the Andrew River valley of significance on the world scale (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Vredefort Dome | a representative part of a larger meteorite impact structure, or astrobleme (Unesco website) |
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