There's a huge arc maybe a thousand km's diameter on the southeast edge of Hudson's Bay. Do you think it's an ancient meteor crater? It's pretty obvious when you see it on Google Maps, but experts just say it isn't. It's something that's bugged me since I was a kid. Would love to go there one day.
2007-06-23 20:20:43 · 4 answers · asked by Nadeem A 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
http://www.nps.gov/archive/crla/kllife.htm here is the srite with top to bottom information rather than just overloading your answer space.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/01/0123_020123_wirecrater.html is more illustrated and shows how the Crater was made. Based on these articles it is a Crater bade by a (meteorite)- meteor that entered Earth's atmosphere.
-ite is a suffix meaning oxidized. then the meteor hits the Earth's atmosphere it hits Oxygen.
2007-06-23 20:47:21 · answer #1 · answered by Kristenite’s Back! 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The site below, maintained by the University of New Brunswick, is the most reliable on the whole web to list everything that is CONFIRMED as a meteor impact site.
Some of the big impact sites (Sudbury, or the Vredefort Ring) are about half as old as the Earth, and they still show the diagnostic results of an impact after all that time, such as shock metamorphosis, and fracture patterns. The arc-shaped coastline of part of Hudson's Bay has been thoroughly explored, and it shows none of these traces of an impact origin.
2007-06-24 16:25:23 · answer #2 · answered by bh8153 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is a URL that will elaborate on the Hudson's Bay site.
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/planets/impact-No.htm
2007-06-24 08:11:51 · answer #3 · answered by ekil422 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
James Bay is also an impact site.
2014-07-11 17:54:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋