Red comb
Coordinates: 27 ° 45 ′ 57 ″ S , 16 ° 17 ′ 17 ″ E
The Red Ridge is a medium-sized impact crater in the Namib in southern Namibia within the Tsau-ǁKhaeb- (restricted area) national park (formerly diamond restricted area ), in the ǁKaras region .
The crater has a diameter of about 2.5 kilometers and is about 130 meters deep, whereby it is covered with a layer of sand about 100 meters thick. The age of the crater is estimated to be about 3.7 (± 0.3) million years; its origin falls into the Pliocene . Its breccia can only be found on the crater rim .
| NASA satellite image: The image shows an area of around 25.5 kilometers by 36.4 kilometers, with north in the lower right corner of the image. The crater can be seen as a circular ring in the upper center of the image. The finger-like white area on the lower left edge of the picture is a small mountain group consisting of solid rock from the Buschmannberg and Wasserkuppe . | |
| Aerial view of the Rote Kamm 2015. View in east direction. The altitude is about 300 m above the crater. | |
| Aerial view of the Red Ridge from April 26, 2017. View in south direction. The altitude is about 300 m above the crater. | |
| Orthographic projection image from NASA with double height distortion , view towards the east: You can see the crater in the foreground, Buschmannberg (with Aurusberg , to the left of it) in the center, and Huib high plateau and Hunsberge in the background. |
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See also
Web links
Commons : Red Comb - Collection of Images
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lutz Hecht, Wolf Uwe Reimold, Sarah Sherlock, Roald Tagle, Christian Koeberl, Ralf-Thomas Schmitt: New impact-melt rock from the Roter Kamm impact structure, Namibia: Further constraints on impact age, melt rock chemistry, and projectile composition , In: Meteoritics & Planetary Science, July 2008, Issue 43, No. 7, pp. 1201 ff.