Eagle Butte crater
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Eagle Butte is an impact crater
in Alberta
, Canada, named for a rural area
west of the Cypress Hills.
It is 10 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 65 million years (Paleocene
or earlier). The crater is not exposed at the surface.
Impact crater
In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...
in Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
, Canada, named for a rural area
Eagle Butte, Alberta
Eagle Butte is a rural area south of Medicine Hat and west of the Cypress Hills. It is home to Saint Margaret's Church.-References:*http://members.memlane.com/djcarter/church-moreinfo.html...
west of the Cypress Hills.
It is 10 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 65 million years (Paleocene
Paleocene
The Paleocene or Palaeocene, the "early recent", is a geologic epoch that lasted from about . It is the first epoch of the Palaeogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era...
or earlier). The crater is not exposed at the surface.