queensland crater?
Queensland's Giant
Meteorite Crater?
with dimensions of 8.8km
by 7.2 km
Update: Information
received by Earth Science Australia
indicates that
this feature, while very interesting geologically...
It is, in fact,
a layered ultramafic intrusion
- we hope to
post details in the near future and would like to get in contact with
the
graduate student from the
Queensland University
of Technology who looked at it in December 1998 - still waiting....
- for those with
an adverturous spirit it is still worthwhile
looking at the
convincing information provided below....
from the files of the Smithsonian
A circular feature, indicated by the yellow circle,
was found at 151 25' 20" East; 24 52' 00" South.
It is about 9 kilometers across.
Gray areas on the map are over 200m.
This oblique view of the circular structure
taken from a commercial airliner
at 24,000 feet on July 11, 1996.
Based on the times of takeoff, landing, and the time of the photograph,
it was estimated that the feature was somewhere S or SW of Gladstone.
Landsat
MSS image obtained July 6 1984.
This false-color image includes near-IR
and visible wavelengths;
bands 3,2 and 1 are in red, green and
blue.
This location was revised when the
feature
was later identified in a satellite
image.
The oblique aerial photograph was taken
from the lower left, with agricultural fields on the foreground and the
forested hills of the Burnett Range in the background.
Georeferencing of the Landsat image indicates
the feature is centered on latiture 24 52' S, longitude
151 25' 20" E.