New Satellite Images of Meteor Impact Craters Available via Google Maps at Geology.com
(PRWEB) October 23, 2005 -- Investigate two dozen impact craters using the new interactive satellite images at Geology.com (http://geology.com/meteor-impact-craters.shtml). Starting with a world map, site visitors can zoom in on these craters until they completely fill the monitor.
Featured craters include: Meteor Crater in Arizona, USA; Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico; Aorounga in Chad; Roter Kamm in South West Africa / Namibia; Mistastin Lake in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; Manicouagan in Quebec; Clearwater Lakes in Quebec; Deep Bay in Saskathchewan; Bosumtwi in Ghana; Grosses Bluff in Northern Territory, Australia; Kara-Kul in Tajikistan; New Quebec in Quebec, Canada; Goat Paddock Crater in Kimberley Plateau, Northwestern Australia; Gweni Fada Structure, Chad; Acraman Structure, South Australia; Vredefort Dome in South Africa; Teague / Shoemaker Structure in Western Australia; Ouarkziz Structure in Algeria; and Ramgarh Crater in Eastern Rajasthan, India.
Also available at Geology.com are a Geology Dictionary (http://geology.com/geology-dictionary.shtml) providing definitions for over 500 commonly used terms in geology, hydrology and earth science, a Geologic Time Scale (http://geology.com/time.htm) covering the full 4.6 billion years of geologic time; a Mineral Identification Chart (http://geology.com/minerals/mineral-identification.shtml) that students can print without charge; and a Landsat Satellite Image Tutorial (http://geology.com/satellite/), which explains how to interpret Landsat images in terms a beginner would understand. Most important is Geology.com's large collection of links to the best geology and earth science Web sites on a wide variety of topics.
About Geology.com:
Geology.com serves as a portal to geology and earth science information across the Web. It provides resources for learning about geology and is visited by over 100,000 teachers, students and geologists each month.
For more information, visit www.geology.com
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