Kärdla crater explained

Kärdla crater
Other Name:Kärdla astrobleme
Confidence:Confirmed
Age:455 Ma
Exposed:No
Drilled:Yes

Kärdla (also Kärdla astrobleme) is a meteorite crater near the town of Kärdla in Estonia.

It is in diameter and its age is estimated to be about 455 million years (Late Ordovician). The crater is not exposed at the surface.[1]

Its formation has been associated with the breakdown of 100km asteroid, that might have also resulted in the Tvären and Lockne craters in Sweden among others.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Kärdla. kardla. 2009-08-19.
  2. A rain of L-Chondrites in the Thorsberg quarry at Kinnekulle, southern Sweden-Thomas Müller TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany.