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Wells Creek

 Crater Name  Location  Latitude  Longitude  Diameter (km)  Age (Ma)  Exposed  Drilled  Target Rock**  Bolide Type***
 Wells Creek  Tennessee, U.S.A.  N 36° 23'  W 87° 40'  12  200 ± 100  Y  Y  S  -
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1. Geology on a Digital elevation model. View from south to north. Geology of central uplift is: Orange peak, yellow and dark pink areas at center are Lower to middle Ordovician Limestone. This material was thrust upwards a distance as much as 800m+/-. Light Pink through to orange are Silurian, Devonian and Mississippian strata. Middle Ordovician Strata and above are flanking a ring structure (seen as a topographinc high). Generated by Graham Nickerson at Interactive Visualisation Systems, Fredericton, New Brunswick

2 & 3. DEM

References
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* pre-1977 K-Ar, Ar-Ar and Rb-Sr ages recalculated using the decay constants of Steiger and Jager (1977) Ages in millions of years (Ma) before present.

** Abbreviations: C - Crystalline Target; C-Ms - Metasedimentary Target; M - Mixed Target (i.e.sedimentary strata overlying crystalline basement); S - sedimentary target (i.e. no crystalline rocks affected by the impact event). From Osinski. G. R., Spray J. G., and Grieve R. A. F. 2007. Impact melting in sedimentary target rocks: A synthesis. In The Sedimentary Record of Meteorite Impacts, Geological Society of America Special Paper. Editors: Evans K. Horton W., King D., Morrow J., and Warme J. Geological Society of America: Boulder, in press.

***From Koeberl,C. Identification of meteoritic components in impactites. 1998, Koeberl, C. The Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry of Impacts. 2007 and PASSC Files. (IAB, IIIAB, IIIB, IIID - Iron Meteorite)