Beaverhead

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Coordinates: 44 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 114 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W.

Map: Idaho
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Beaverhead is an impact crater in the center of the state of Idaho and west of the state of Montana in the United States .

With an estimated diameter of 60 kilometers, Beaverhead Crater is one of the largest impact craters on earth. The age of the crater is estimated to be around 600 million years.

The structure takes its name from Beaverhead County in Montana, where the first evidence of an impact was discovered in 1990. Apart from the cones of rays that can be found at the edge, nothing can be seen on the surface of the crater.

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  • Carr, J and Link, PK, 1999, Neoproterozoic conglomerate and breccia in the formation of Leaton Gulch, Grouse Peak, northern Lost River Range , Idaho: Relation to Beaverhead Impact Structure, in Hughes, SS, and Thackray, GD, eds., Guidebook to the Geology of Eastern Idaho : Pocatello, Idaho Museum of natural History, p. 21-29.
  • Beaverhead . In: Earth Impact Database . Retrieved September 13, 2007 (only for the map)

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