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1 | ![]() | Silverpit crater ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 54.2333 / 1.85 | Silverpit crater is a buried sub-sea structure under the North Sea off the coast of the island of Great Britain. The 20 km crater-like form,Stentor Danielson (2002). , National Geographic News, July 31, 2002 named after the Silver Pit — a nearby sea-floor valley recognized by generations of (...) |
2 | ![]() | Chicxulub crater ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 21.3333 / -89.5 | The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is located near the town of Chicxulub, after which the crater is named. It was formed by a large asteroid or comet about in diameter, the Chicxulub impactor, striking the Earth (...) |
3 | Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 21.4 / -89.5 | The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a sudden mass extinction of some three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, approximately 66 million years ago (...) | |
4 | Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 21.4 / -89.5167 | The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, formerly known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K-T) boundary, is a geological signature, usually a thin band of rock. K, the first letter of the German word Kreide (chalk), is the traditional abbreviation for the Cretaceous Period and Pg is the abbreviation for (...) | |
5 | Geography of the North Sea ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 60.85 / -0.8833 | The geography of the North Sea studies coastal and submarine features as well as the people who live on its coasts. It is bounded by the east coasts of England and Scotland to the west and the northern and central European mainland to the east and south, including Norway, Denmark, Germany, the (...) | |
6 | Boltysh crater ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 183 Lat/Lng : 48.9 / 32.2501 | The Boltysh Crater (Bovtyshka Crater) is an impact crater in the Kirovohrad Oblast of Ukraine, near the village of Bovtyshka. The crater is in diameter and its age of 65.17 ± 0.64 million years, based on argon dating techniques, is within error of that of Chicxulub Crater in Mexico, and the (...) | |
7 | BP Structure ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 394 Lat/Lng : 25.3187 / 24.3104 | The BP Structure, also known as Gebel Dalma, is an exposed impact crater in Libya. It is so called because it was identified by a BP (then British Petroleum) geological survey team. The crater is 2 km in diameter and its age is estimated to be less than 120 million years (Lower Cretaceous or later) (...) | |
8 | Stac Fada Member ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 58.05 / -5.35 | The Stac Fada Member is a distinctive layer towards the top of the Mesoproterozoic Bay of Stoer Formation, part of the Torridonian Supergroup. This rock unit is generally 10 to 15 metres thick and is made of sandstone that contains accretionary lapilli and many dark green glassy fragments of mafic (...) | |
9 | Silver Pit ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 53.5333 / 0.7833 | :Or see silver mining. The Silver Pit is a long valley in the bed of the North Sea, east of Spurn Head in England. Sometimes the Silver Pit was part of the valley of the Wash River. Also notable is the Silverpit crater, a crater-like feature near the Silver Pit, discovered in 2002. (...) | |
10 | Howden Dyke Island ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 53.7244 / -0.8623 | Howden Dyke Island is a island in the River Ouse, Yorkshire. More accurately a shoal between seasonally varying flows, the area regularly above water (and covered in trees and vegetation) is roughly . A larger example of this same feature is visible where the Ouse widens into the Humber Estuary, (...) | |