Crooked Creek crater | |
Map: | United States#Missouri |
Coordinates: | 37.8333°N -114°W |
Coordinates Ref: | [1] |
Confidence: | Confirmed |
Diameter: | 4.3miles |
Age: | 320 ± 80 Ma (Mississippian) |
Exposed: | Yes |
Drilled: | No |
Bolide: | see 38th parallel structures |
Topo: | USGS Cook Station |
Country: | United States |
State: | Missouri |
District: | Crawford County |
Crooked Creek is an impact crater in Crawford County, Missouri, United States.
It is 4.3miles in diameter and the age is estimated to be 320 ± 80 million years (Mississippian). The crater is exposed to the surface.[1]
This is one of the 38th parallel structures, a series of circular depressions stretching across the central United States, thought to possibly be the result of a serial impact.