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Impact crater, northern Canada. Photo taken from Space Shuttle Columbia (1983)
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Impact crater, northern Canada. Photo taken from Space Shuttle Columbia (1983)

"an aerial view of a lake"

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Comments for: Impact crater, northern Canada. Photo taken from Space Shuttle Columbia (1983)
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: January 13, 2005 02:03PM

Lake Manicouagan, northern Québec.

"The meterorite that created this crater hit so hard that ejecta ended up... in Great-Britain! This impact, 214 millions years old, has probably done a lot of damage. It is believed it was a 5-km meterorite.

Biologists have noticed a massive extinction of animal and plant species which occured about 200 million years ago. It is after that exctinction event that reptiles, and among them the dinosaurs, could establish themselves as the dominant species on our planet.

Today, lake Manicouagan is the scar of this prehistoric cataclysm. The ring-shaped lake is in fact a crater, 100 km in diameter. The crater, like the rest of Québec territory, has been subjected to intense erosion following the passing of glaciers. Lake Manicouagan, through the river of the same name, empties into the St-Lawrence river 483 km further south. It is on this powerful river that Hydro Québec has built several hydroelectric powerplants, one of which being the world's largest multi-arch dam, the Daniel-Johnson dam (aka Manic-5)."

source (in French):
[www.republiquelibre.org]

Note -- This photo is also available, larger and in more colors and spectra, on the NASA Earth Observation site.
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: January 13, 2005 10:34PM

did the meterorite speak french?
Anonymouse Report This Comment
Date: January 14, 2005 12:16AM

Yes, but you'd have to address it as Monsieur Méteorite.
Le_Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: May 27, 2005 07:11PM

Sacre Bleu!
French_Gentleman Report This Comment
Date: August 22, 2005 03:42PM

Not the only nice thing in Québec... you should see our landscape and of course... Women !
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: September 05, 2005 03:59PM

I thought it was the earth's cunt! Excuse me!
dippy Report This Comment
Date: September 27, 2005 02:41AM

That is a B.F.R. for sure. Big Fucking Rock that is