Victoria Island structure
Template:Infobox terrestrial impact site The Victoria Island structure is a Script error: No such module "convert". bowl-shaped structure buried in the shale sediments of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, Script error: No such module "convert". west of Stockton, California. The circular structure is part of a former sea bed, and lies Script error: No such module "convert". below sea level.[1]
Discovered during oil exploration and reported at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, in March 2007, it is thought to be a buried impact crater formed between 37 and 49 million years ago.[2][3]
Victoria Island, which the structure is named for, is in the San Joaquin River Delta at approximately Script error: No such module "Coordinates"..[4] The current publications do not list a more precise location for the impact structure than the island.
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- ↑ Paul Rincon (2007). 'Crater' spied under California, BBC News
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