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Rock-art Pre-history. Ancient Civilization of Nile. Frontiers of Roman empire. Egypt after the Pharoahs. All Rights Reserved. African World Heritage, Nairobi, Kenya. At the time of formation, the crater is believed to have been about kilometers across. Since then, the crater and its ejecta have been removed by weathering and erosion. The visible evidence that remains today includes: A deformed rock units that were once below the crater's floor; B small-scale impact evidence such as transformed mineral structures and shatter cone structures; and, C a dome of uplifted rock that once formed a central peak within the crater.
With an estimated original diameter of kilometers, the Vredefort Impact Crater is the largest asteroid impact structure that still has visible evidence at Earth's surface.
It is also the second-oldest impact structure with visible evidence at Earth's surface. Larger Image of Vredefort Dome. A core of basement granite marks the center of the Vredefort Crater. This core is surrounded by inclined rock units that dip away from the granite core in all directions to form a structural dome.
This dome-shaped feature is about 70 kilometers in diameter and is known as the "Vredefort Dome. Dipping rock units in the northwestern portion of the dome form a semicircular pattern of surface ridges that can be recognized on topographic maps and satellite images. The southeastern portion of the dome is not visible because it has been covered by sediments of the Karoo Supergroup.
You can clearly see parts of the northwestern half of the Vredefort Dome in the Landsat image on this page. It can be recognized as a roughly semicircular pattern of concentric ridges. The Vaal River can be seen traversing the northern part of the structure.
In some areas the course of the river forms an arc in map-view where it is confined to a valley between the uplifted ridges. Enlarge the Landsat image for a detailed view. Complex impact crater: The Vredefort Impact Crater is a complex crater.
In the formation of a simple crater, a bowl-shaped depression is produced when an impact pulverizes the target rock and blasts much of it out over the surrounding terrain. In a complex crater, a central uplift is formed in the instant after the impact, when the material in the bottom of the crater attempts to return to a state of gravitational equilibrium.
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