Impact crater discovered in California

Oil exploration work in California’s Central Valley region has uncovered a possible space impact crater.

Neat. I like this sort of thing.

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Oil exploration work in California’s Central Valley region has uncovered a possible space impact crater.

Neat. I like this sort of thing.
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Neat. I drive through there all the time.

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Neat. I drive through there all the time.
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I’ve had just about enough of that drive. At least for a while.

I was flying north one time, and we went to the east of Mt. Shasta instead of the west. I looked down and saw several round features on the ground. I wondered if they were old impact craters, or if they were volcanic. Since I was on a commercial jet, I don’t know exactly where these features were.

[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]
I’ve had just about enough of that drive. At least for a while.

I was flying north one time, and we went to the east of Mt. Shasta instead of the west. I looked down and saw several round features on the ground. I wondered if they were old impact craters, or if they were volcanic. Since I was on a commercial jet, I don’t know exactly where these features were.
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There’s a series of three smaller mountains in an arc in the general location you describe, according to National Geographic map of the area. The southernmost is named “Deep Crater” – so I’d have a pretty firm guess that’s what you saw.

[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]
I was flying north one time, and we went to the east of Mt. Shasta…
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That was a while ago:
Crater east of Shasta? Geologists, please read.

These three off to the right?

[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]
Neat. I like this sort of thing.
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You need to go to this site :smiley:

[QUOTE=garygnu]
These three off to the right?
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Could be. I noticed there are some other circular lakes to the north as well, and in a line with those three. But it’s been about six years…