Crater Location (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Crater Location

Caption

The location of the crater in Chesapeake Bay. It is now completely covered by younger sediments, but was discovered in the early 1990s by marine geophysical surveys and subsequent drilling. It is the largest known impact crater in the U.S. and the 15th-largest on Earth.

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Powars et al. 2015, Christoph Kersten / GEOMAR

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