Biggest Meteorite Craters in the World

 An impact crater forms when an asteroid or comet strikes another body such as an asteroid, planet, or moon at high speed. As Earth is so active geologically, most traces of impact craters have been erased by erosion and tectonic activity. Nevertheless, over one hundred seventy impact craters have been identified on Earth.

Here are some of the biggest Meteorite craters found on earth. I hope you will like it.

Barringer Crater, Arizona, US

Some 49,000 years ago a large nickel-iron meteorite 150 ft across, weighing several hundred thousand tons and traveling at a speed of 40,000 miles per hour, hit Earth. The result of this meteor is 55 km crater called the Barringer Crater. It’s the best preserved impact crater ever.

Bosumtwi, Ghana

The impact of a meteorite some 1.3 million years ago opened up hole in the ground with a 6 mile diameter.

Deep Bay, Canada

Deep Bay is a strikingly circular, very deep and unusually irregular and shallow lake. The 8 mile wide crater is a complex impact structure with a low, totally submerged central uplift, formed about 100 million years ago.

Aorounga impact crater, Chad

Aorounga is an eroded meteorite impact crater that formed 2-300 million years ago in an area of the Sahara Desert, northern Chad, in Africa, when a comet or asteroid with a 1 mile diameter hit the crust of Earth.

Gosses Bluff, Australia

Approximately 142 million years ago, a large asteroid or comet (22 km in diameter) crashed at 40 km/sec and released massive energy equivalent to 22 000 megaton’s of TNT.

Mistastin Lake, Canada

The Mistastin crater is the result of a meteorite crash that caused a 17.4 miles wide giant hole into the ground, 38 million years ago. It is located in Labrador, Canada.

Clearwater lakes, Canada

Two circular lakes/impact craters on the Canadian Shield in Quebec formed simultaneously by the impact of an asteroid pair which crashed on Earth approximately 290 million years ago.

Kara-Kul, Tajikistan

This crater is situated in Tajikistan. It has formed a lake. The lake is actually located within a 28 mile wide circular depression, which was hit by a meteorite approximately 5 million years ago.

Manicouagan, Canada

This crater is located in central Quebec, Canada. Some 212 million years ago, a 3 mile wide asteroid hit the earth, to causing a 62 mile wide giant hole.

Chicxulub, Mexico

This ancient impact crater is huge at 105 miles in diameter. The impact happened roughly 65 million years ago when a comet or asteroid the size of a small city crashed on Earth.

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10 Deepest Caves of the World

Our ancestors were using caves as shelter from wild animals and the forces of nature. Perhaps, this base necessity however, has always been eclipsed by man’s curiosity and desire to explore the mystical and enigmatic air inside the abyss.
Here I have compiled 10 deepest caves of the world. I hope you will like it.

Krubera-Voronja Cave

Cave of Kruber, Voronja is the deepest cave in the world with recent measurements extending to a total depth of 7188 feet. It was the first cave to be explored to a depth of more than 2 km down.

Illuzia-Snezhnaja-Mezhonnogo

It is two times larger than the world’s deepest cave and is the second deepest in the world. Located in Georgia, the cave is renowned for being dangerous and very difficult to work in.

Gouffre Mirolda

The cave measures 5685 feet. It was the first cave to be explored below 1 km. The record however, was beaten within a matter of years.

Vogelshacht and Lamprechtsofen

The cave system has so far been proven to be 5354 feet deep. Incredible really, that’s over a mile. Notwithstanding this, explorations continue, so this could be only the tip of the iceberg.

Reseau Jean Bernard

This is a 5256 feet deep cave in the French Alps, in Samoëns. The cave has at least 8 entrances. Until 1980, it was considered to be the deepest cave in the world.

Torca del Cerro del Cuevon

Torca del Cerro del Cuevon also known as T-33 and La Torca de las Saxifragas. Together, these two form the deepest cave in Spain. It is considered to be the most technically difficult in the world.

Sarma

Sarma is in the Caucuses range, Georgia. It goes down up to 5062 feet. Sarma has the biggest potential to surpass Voronja and break the world record for being the deepest cave.

Shakta Vjacheslav Pantjukhina

The Bzybsky Massif in Georgia is renowned as rich in caves. More than 400 are present and just one of them that made it to our list of the deepest caves in the world which is Shakta Vjacheslav Pantjukhina. It is 4948 feet deep.

Sima de la Cornisa – Torca Magali

This is a caving system in the Picos de Europa Mountains in Spain. An international team of speleologists explored the cave last summer and managed to go down, in what they call a “bottomless pit”, to 4944 feet.

Cehi 2

Cehi 2 is slovenia’s deepest cave. It is located on Italian Slovenian borders. It is about 4982 feet deep. The depth is twice than the height of tallest man made structure in the world.

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Largest Lakes in the World

If you had to name the largest lake in the world, would you be able to do it? Do you know that the largest lake in the world is actually the Caspian Sea? Most people don’t realize that because the word “sea” in the name of the lake throws them off. In fact, many people will try to argue about that with you if you tell them that the Caspian Sea is the largest lake in the world.

Here is some more information about that along with information about nine other huge lakes that you can find somewhere on this planet.

Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is over 143,000 square miles in size. This makes it the largest enclosed body of water in the world. It is a salt water lake located in the general region between Russia and Northern Iran

Lake Maracaibo

It is considerably smaller than the Caspian Sea at only 5,000 square miles but it is the largest lake in South America. It is located in Venezuela.

Lake Michigan and Lake Huron

Although most people consider these two Great Lakes of the United States to be separate lakes, they are actually a single, joined body of water. At over 45, 00 square miles combined, they make up one of the largest single lakes in the world.

Lake Superior

This is another one of the Great Lakes at the border of the United States and Canada. There is a reason that this set of lakes is called the Great Lakes – they really are massively huge. This one is over 31,000 square miles in size.

Lake Victoria

It is over 26,000 square miles in size which makes it the second largest continental lake in the World. This one is located in the area of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.

Lake Tanganyika

It has the distinction of being the second deepest lake in the world. It is over 12,000 square miles in size and has a depth of 1900 feet. It is located in central Africa.

Lake Baikal

The lake that holds the record for being the deepest lake in the world is this one located in Russia. It is over 12,000 square feet in size and has a depth of 2500 feet.

Great Bear Lake

This is a Canadian lake located near the Arctic Circle. It is around 12,000 square miles in size which seems to be a good average size for a large lake in our world.

Great Slave Lake

Although it is not as big as other lakes in Canada, it is deeper. In fact, with a depth of over 2000 feet, it is one of the deepest lakes in the world and definitively the deepest in North America.

Lake Malawi

The reason that people are interested in this lake is not because of its size but rather because it is known for being the lake that has more different types of species of fish than any other lake on the entire planet.

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Visiting The Google Headquarters

 The photos are mostly from the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, but some pictures were taken at the Google New York City offices. If you worked in the Google headquarters, you could bath in a lap pool, have a massage in a massage room and if too tired, take a nap in a nap capsule and many other stuff. I’ve seen plenty of cool offices but any of the Google offices around the world is the best!






























 
     

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