Kaluga crater
![Kaluga crater is located in Russia](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Russia_administrative_location_map.svg/248px-Russia_administrative_location_map.svg.png)
![Kaluga crater](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Map_pointer.svg/16px-Map_pointer.svg.png)
Kaluga is an impact crater located in Kaluga Oblast of the Central Federal District, Russia.
It is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) in diameter and the age is estimated to be 380 ± 5 million years old (Upper Devonian). The crater is buried under 800 metres (2,600 ft) of sediments; it is not exposed at the surface.[1]
References
- ^ "Kaluga". Earth Impact Database. Planetary and Space Science Centre University of New Brunswick Fredericton. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
54°30′N 36°12′E / 54.500°N 36.200°E / 54.500; 36.200
- v
- t
- e
- Impact crater
- Impact event
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Pingualuit_aerial_2007.jpg/120px-Pingualuit_aerial_2007.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Craterstructure.gif/120px-Craterstructure.gif)
- Acraman
- Amelia Creek
- Araguainha
- Beaverhead
- Boltysh
- Carswell
- Charlevoix
- Chesapeake Bay
- Chicxulub
- Clearwater East and West
- Gosses Bluff
- Haughton
- Kamensk
- Kara
- Karakul
- Keurusselkä
- Lappajärvi
- Logancha
- Manicouagan
- Manson
- Mistastin
- Mjølnir
- Montagnais
- Morokweng
- Nördlinger Ries
- Obolon'
- Popigai
- Presqu'île
- Puchezh-Katunki
- Rochechouart
- Saint Martin
- Shoemaker
- Siljan Ring
- Slate Islands
- Steen River
- Strangways
- Sudbury
- Tookoonooka
- Tunnunik
- Vredefort
- Woodleigh
- Yarrabubba
- Alvarez hypothesis
- Australite
- Breccia
- Coesite
- Complex crater
- Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary
- Cryptoexplosion
- Ejecta blanket
- Impact crater
- Impact structure
- Impactite
- Late Heavy Bombardment
- Lechatelierite
- Meteorite
- Moldavite
- Ordovician meteor event
- Philippinite
- Planar deformation features
- Shatter cone
- Shock metamorphism
- Shocked quartz
- Stishovite
- Suevite
- Tektite
![]() | This Kaluga Oblast location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
![]() | This article about an impact crater on Earth is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e