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A POSSIBLE RECENT METEORITE IMPACT SITE NEAR THE BORDER BETWEEN ZAMBIA AND MALAWI
Author(s) -
MOSSMAN DAVID J.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
meteoritics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0026-1114
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1972.tb00425.x
Subject(s) - meteorite , impact crater , plateau (mathematics) , geology , impact structure , earth science , geochemistry , astrobiology , physics , mathematical analysis , mathematics
A crater, 80 m diameter by 6 m deep, was created in 1959 on the Nyika Plateau between Zambia and Malawi. It may have been the result of a meteorite.