List of impact structures in Australia
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Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Earth Impact Database world map.svg Script error: No such module "Side box". This list includes all 27 confirmed impact structures in Australia as listed in the Earth Impact Database.[1]
Impact structures - confirmed
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| Name | State | Diameter (km) |
Age (years) | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acraman | South Australia | 90 | about 590 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Amelia Creek | Northern Territory | 20 | 1660 - 600 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Boxhole | Northern Territory | 0.17 | 5,400 ± 1,500 | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Connolly Basin | Western Australia | 9 | < 60 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Crawford | South Australia | 8.5 | > 35 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Dalgaranga | Western Australia | 0.02 | about 3000 | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Flaxman | South Australia | 10 | > 35 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Foelsche | Northern Territory | 6 | > 545 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Glikson | Western Australia | 19 | < 508 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Goat Paddock | Western Australia | 5 | < 50 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Gosses Bluff | Northern Territory | 22 | 142.5 ± 0.8 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Goyder | Northern Territory | 3 | < 1.4 billion | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Henbury | Northern Territory | 0.16 | 4200 ± 1900 | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Kelly West | Northern Territory | 10 | > 550 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Lawn Hill | Queensland | 18 | > 515 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Liverpool | Northern Territory | 1.6 | 1000 - 543 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Matt Wilson | Northern Territory | 7.5 | < 1402 ± 440 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Mount Toondina | South Australia | 4 | < 110 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Piccaninny | Western Australia | 7 | < 360 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Shoemaker (formerly Teague) |
Western Australia | 30 | Proterozoic | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Spider | Western Australia | 13 | > 570 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Strangways | Northern Territory | 25 | 646 ± 42 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Tookoonooka | Queensland | 55 | 128 ± 5 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Veevers | Western Australia | 0.08 | < 20 thousand | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Wolfe Creek | Western Australia | 0.87 | 120,000 | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Woodleigh | Western Australia | 60–120 | 364 ± 8 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Yarrabubba[2] | Western Australia | 70 | > 2 billion | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Ora Banda | Western Australia | 5 | 100 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Hickman Crater | Newman, Western Australia | 0.27 | 10 - 100 thousand | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Yallalie Impact Structure | Dandaragan, Western Australia | 12 | 80-90 Million |
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Unconfirmed impact structures
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| Name | State | Diameter (km) |
Age | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedout[3][4] | Indian Ocean, Western Australia | 200 | 250 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Darwin Crater[5] | Tasmania | 1.2 | 800 thousand | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Deniliquin multiple-ring feature[6] | Southeast Australia | 520 | 445-444 million, Hirnantian mass extinction event[7] | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| Diamantina River ring feature[8][9] | Upper Diamantina River, Queensland | 130 | 300 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| East Warburton Basin[10] | South Australia | 200 [11] | about 300-360 million | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| West Warburton Basin[12] | South Australia | 200 [11] | about 300-360 million | |
| Gnargoo[13] | Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia | 75 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
| North Pole Crater[14][15] | Pilbara Craton, Western Australia | 100 | 3.47 billion | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
See also
- Impact craters
- Impact events
- Bolides and Meteorites
- Earth Impact Database – primary source
- Traces of Catastrophe book from Lunar and Planetary Institute - comprehensive reference on impact crater science
Notes
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- ↑ Bevan, Alex. and Ken McNamara (2009) Australia's meteorite craters Welshpool, W. A. : Western Australian Museum, 2nd ed. Template:ISBN (pbk.) and other sources provide a contrast in methodology and limitations to the information in the EID
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Becker, L., Poreda, R.J., Basu, A.R., Pope, K.O., Harrison, T.M., Nicholson, C., and Iasky, R., 2004. Bedout: a possible end-Permian impact crater offshore of northwestern Australia. Science, 304(5676), pp.1469-1476.
- ↑ French, B.M., and Koeberl, C., 2010. The convincing identification of terrestrial meteorite impact structures: What works, what doesn't, and why. Earth-Science Reviews, 98(1-2), pp.123-170.
- ↑ Howard, K.T., and Haines, P.W., 2007. The geology of Darwin crater, western Tasmania, Australia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 260(1-2), pp.328-339.
- ↑ Glikson, A.Y., and Yeates, A.N., 2022. Geophysics and origin of the Deniliquin multiple-ring feature, Southeast Australia. Tectonophysics, 837, no.229454.
- ↑ Glikson, A.Y., 2023. An asteroid impact origin of the Hirnantian (end-Ordovician) glaciation and mass extinction. Gondwana Research, 118, pp.153-159.
- ↑ Glikson, A., Korsch, R.J., and Milligan, P., 2016. The Diamantina River ring feature, Winton region, western Queensland. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 63(5), pp.653-663.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Glikson, A.Y., Uysal, I.T., Gerald, J.D.F. and Saygin, E., 2013. Geophysical anomalies and quartz microstructures, Eastern Warburton Basin, North-east South Australia: Tectonic or impact shock metamorphic origin? . Tectonophysics, 589, pp.57-76.
- ↑ a b World's largest asteroid impact zone found in Australia: Meteorite broke in two, leaving two craters each 200 km across. Mar 24, 2015
- ↑ Glikson, A.Y., Meixner, A.J., Radke, B., Uysal, I.T., Saygin, E., Vickers, J. and Mernagh, T.P., 2015. Geophysical anomalies and quartz deformation of the Warburton West structure, central Australia. Tectonophysics, 643, pp.55-72.
- ↑ Iasky, R.P. and Glikson, A.Y., 2005. Gnargoo: a possible 75 km-diameter post-Early Permian–pre-Cretaceous buried impact structure, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 52(4-5), pp.575-586.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ de Kruijff, P. (6 March 2025). Earth's oldest-known crater discovered in outback WA is 3.47 billion years old, study finds ABC News. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
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External links
- Unesco
- Earth Impact Database – List of confirmed earth impact sites at the Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick
- Impact Database (formerly Suspected Earth Impact Sites list) maintained by David Rajmon for Impact Field Studies Group, USA
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