| Goat Paddock crater | |
| Map: | Western Australia |
| Location: | Kimberley Region |
| Coordinates: | -18.3333°N 166°W |
| Confidence: | Confirmed |
| Diameter: | 5.1km (03.2miles) |
| Age: | <50 Ma Eocene |
| Exposed: | Yes |
| Drilled: | No |
| Country: | Australia |
| State: | Western Australia |
Goat Paddock is a 5 km-diameter near-circular bowl-shaped depression in a range of gently dipping Proterozoic sandstone in the Kimberley Region of northern Western Australia, 106 km west-southwest of Halls Creek. It is interpreted as an ancient meteorite impact crater, the evidence including breccia containing melted rocks, silica glass, shatter cones and shocked quartz.[1] [2] [3] Drilling shows that the crater is filled with about 200 m of ancient lake sediments containing Early Eocene pollen, this age thus giving a minimum estimate for the age of the crater itself.[1] The crater is not perfectly circular, but slightly elongated in a north–south direction, suggesting that the projectile struck at low angle from either the north or south.