Kalkkop
Coordinates: 32 ° 42 ′ 33.8 ″ S , 24 ° 25 ′ 52.1 ″ E
The Kalkkop Crater is an impact crater in South Africa . The crater is located on the area of a private farm about 50 kilometers south of the town of Graaf Reinet in the Eastern Cape Province . It got its name from two Afrikaans words : "Kalk", which means limestone , "kop" means head.
The impact took place around 250,000 years ago in the Pleistocene and created a crater 640 meters in diameter and a few hundred meters deep; today it is filled with sediments and is still 88 meters deep. Only an eroded ring is visible on the surface.
See also
Web links
- Kalkkop entry in the Earth Impact Database