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The Nadir Crater

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I’m probably the last to know,
but I just found out about the Nadir Crater (Figs 1,2), about 66mya and offshore from West Africa “with radial thrusts at the periphery of the uplift suggesting a low-angle impact from the East” according to Nicholson et al 2024.

This is interesting – puts a different spin on everything ‘asteroid’.

Communications Earth & Environment, doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01700-4 ” data-large-file=”https://pterosaurheresies.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/nadir_crater588.jpg?w=584″ src=”https://pterosaurheresies.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/nadir_crater588.jpg?w=588″ alt=”" class=”wp-image-97567″ srcset=”https://pterosaurheresies.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/nadir_crater588.jpg 588w, https://pterosaurheresies.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/nadir_crater588.jpg?w=127 127w, https://pterosaurheresies.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/nadir_crater588.jpg?w=255 255w” sizes=”(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px” />
Figure 1. From Nicholson et all with triangle additions, the world at 66mya showing the locations of the coeval Nadir and Chicxulub craters. The asteroid just missed the African continent coming in from the East.

“The similarity in age of the crater with the 200 km Chicxulub crater in Mexico has led to the suggestion that the end-Cretaceous extinction event may have been associated with more than one impact—either break-up of a parent asteroid in near-Earth orbit or as part of a longer-lived (~1–2 My) temporal cluster of impacts.”


Figure 2. Nadir crater from Nicholson et al 2024.

“There are currently only ~200 confirmed impact craters in the terrestrial record4,5,6,7. Of these, the majority are complex craters, which display a central uplift, collapsed crater rim and annular moat below the crater floor.”

References
Nicholson U et al (6 co-authors) 2024. 3D anatomy of the Cretaceous-Palaeogene age Nadir Crater. Communications Earth & Environment 5:547.


Source: https://pterosaurheresies.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/the-nadir-crater/


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