Ouarkziz
Landsat image of the Ouarkziz crater (oblique view)
Coordinates: 29 ° 0 ′ 42 " N , 7 ° 33 ′ 8" W.
Landsat image of the Ouarkziz crater
Ouarkziz ( Arabic أوركزيز) is the name of an Algerian impact crater with a diameter of 3.5 km. The structure is younger than 70 million years and is visible on the surface of the earth.
The center of the crater is located in the far west of Algeria, around 35 km from the border with Morocco on Wadi Draa in the Tindouf province .
See also
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- Impact structures of the world . Database by Jarmo Molianen . Retrieved October 6, 2010.
- Earth Impact Database. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
- Expert Database on Earth Impact Structures (EDEIS) Retrieved October 7, 2010.
- Image of the Sentinel-2A satellite from March 2016 , annotated by Spiegel Online. Retrieved October 2, 2016.