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Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater approximately east of Flagstaff and west of Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States. Because the United States Board on Geographic Names commonly recognizes names of natural features derived from the nearest post office, the feature acquired the name of "Meteor Crater" from the nearby post office named Meteor. The site was formerly known as the Canyon Diablo Crater and fragments of the meteorite are officially called the Canyon Diablo Meteorite. Scientists refer to the crater as Barringer Crater in honor of Daniel Barringer, who was first to suggest that it was produced by meteorite impact. The crater is privately owned by the Barringer family through their Barringer Crater Company, which proclaims it to be the "best preserved meteorite crater on Earth".
Despite its importance as a geological site, the crater is not protected as a national monument, a status that would require federal ownership. It was designated a National Natural Landmark in November 1967.
Meteor Crater lies at an elevation of about above sea level. It is about in diameter, some deep, and is surrounded by a rim that rises above the surrounding plains. The center of the crater is filled with of rubble lying above crater bedrock. One of the interesting features of the crater is its squared-off outline, believed to be caused by existing regional jointing (cracks) in the strata at the impact site.
Usage examples of "meteor crater".
The impact site should be at least the size of Meteor Crater in Arizona, perhaps larger and deeper.
It was a huge mountain of rock roaming through the darkness of space, a thousand times bigger than the rock that caused the Meteor Crater to the south of the land where The People live.
But on the south side of the rim there is a small meteor crater, with no name but its map designation, THA-Zp.
Out through the meteor crater into black interstellar space, looping hard around and up.
The meteor crater at the heart of this storm would be a small one, and old: these storms took generations to form.
Today Meteor Crater is the most famous impact site on Earth and a popular tourist attraction.
She followed them down the waterfront promenade, which was set on the low meteor crater rim they had used to contain the lake.
I did not suspect the truth until I failed to find the thousands of miles of meteor crater slashed by the Liar’.
I did not suspect the truth until I failed to find the thousands of miles of meteor crater slashed by the Liar's landing.
I did not suspect the truth until I failed to find the thousands of miles of meteor crater slashed by the Liar'.