#CanyonDiablo meteorite refers to the many fragments of the approximately 50 m (160 ft) #diameter[3] asteroid that created #MeteorCrater (also called Barringer Crater),[4] Arizona, United States. Meteorites have been found around the
I had the most memorable deja vu of my life at the #MeteorCrater as a 10-year-old kid. Place reeks of eeriness.

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In 2009 I set out on my second US road trip, driving from Houston all the way to Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. Along the way I visited Meteor Crater in Arizona, before reaching California’s granite domes and the cables of Half Dome. From deserts to mountains, this was another step in my photography journey.

#TravelPhotography #LandscapePhotography #RoadTrip #USA #MeteorCrater #Arizona #SierraNevada #Yosemite #HalfDome #NaturePhotography

Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the #MeteorCrater impact at 56 ka: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G53571.1/659552/Grand-Canyon-landslide-dam-and-paleolake-triggered -> Did a meteor impact trigger a landslide in the Grand Canyon? https://news.arizona.edu/news/did-meteor-impact-trigger-landslide-grand-canyon (this is a pretty unusual case in which the scientific paper comes with an affirmative title while the press release about it has one with a question mark).
Meteor craters

As mapped in OpenStreetMap, manually updated by gpx ex- / import

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Some cool Meteor Crater vinyl decals I ordered.

#MeteorCrater #Meteorite #CanyonDiablo #meteoriten
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For the past year, I've been collaborating with production designer Alex McDowell and the #JunkConsortium, a network of academic worldbuilders--designers and visionaries imagining a future world built on the detritus of our collapsed society.

This is an example of the geographic #worldbuilding techniques I show to the students--Los Angeles and the Hollywood Hills combined with Arizona's #BarringerCrater.

#MeteorCrater #Cartography