Shiva Impact Crater (IMAGE)

Geological Society of America

Shiva Impact Crater

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This diagram shows a three-dimensional reconstruction of the submerged Shiva crater (~500 km diameter) at the Mumbai Offshore Basin, western shelf of India from different cross-sectional and geophysical data. The overlying 4.3-mile-thick Cenozoic strata and water column were removed to show the morphology of the crater.

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Sankar Chatterjee, Texas Tech University

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