Meteorite impact

Connected Sites: 8

WHS that show effects of meteorite impact.

Connected Sites

  • Vredefort Dome
    Vredefort Dome
    South Africa
    Inscribed: 2005
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    4
    a representative part of a larger meteorite impact structure, or astrobleme (Unesco website)
  • Tajik National Park
    Inscribed: 2013
    3.46
    28
    3
    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)
  • Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains
    Inscribed: 2018
    2.31
    28
    2
    meteorite-impact fallback breccias dating to just after the end of The Great Bombardment (4.6 to 3.8 billion years ago) (AB ev)
  • Lenggong Valley
    Inscribed: 2012
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    14
    A meteorite strike 1.83 million b.p. blocked and diverted the river preserving Palaeolithic tools at Bukit Bunuh(Unesco website)
  • Tasmanian Wilderness
    Inscribed: 1982
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    88
    7
    There is a large meteorite impact crater of Pleistocene age in the Andrew River valley of significance on the world scale (UNEP-WCMC)
  • Stevns Klint
    Inscribed: 2014
    2.40
    153
    7
    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)
  • Purnululu National Park
    Inscribed: 2003
    3.84
    16
    4
    Piccaninny Crater
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Central Sikhote-Alin
    Inscribed: 2001
    2.98
    6
    1
    Sikhote-Alin is an iron meteorite that fell in 1947 on the Sikhote-Alin Mountains in southeastern Siberia (wiki)
    See en.wikipedia.org