AAPG Site Search | Home > EXPLORER > ARCHIVES > March 2002 > Meteor impact craters > Barringer

< Return to story

Perhaps Amerioca's best-known impact crater: Arizona's Barringer Crater, a 0.737-mile-diameter (1.186 km) crater that is a mere 49,000 years old.

Photo by D. Roddy/Lunar and Planetary Institute.