Pingualuit (New Quebec) crater

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 lake, impact crater
The Pingualuit crater (also known as the Nouveau / New Quebec or Chubb crater) is a classic example of a simple relatively small crater. It is about 3.4 km in diameter and almost perfectly circular with a raised rim up to 163 metres above the lake surface in the central flooded depression. The lake is 252 metres deep, the deepest in Quebec. The crater, which occurs in crystalline shield rocks, was first recognised as an impact structure in 1950. The impact that produced this crater occurred about 1.4 million years ago, that is just before the glaciers covered this area (Courtesy Geological Survey of Canada)

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Coordinates:   61°16'40"N   73°39'39"W
This article was last modified 5 years ago