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| navigate by keyword : 137 449 900 astrobleme basaltic bay brazil buldhana coast crater craters created diameter district earth epoch four geo heritage hill hyper velocity impact india kilometres lake landscape located lonar maharashtra mean meteor meteorite metres monument mountain national nature notified one pleistocene reflection reservoir rim river rock saline sea shore soda sonar southern structures terrain three tree water waterway wetland wilderness |
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| Lonar Lake,also known as Lonar crater,is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument saline,soda lake,located at Lonar in Buldhana district,Maharashtra,India. Lonar Lake is an astrobleme created by a meteorite impact during the Pleistocene Epoch. It is one of only four known hyper-velocity impact craters in basaltic rock anywhere on Earth. The other three basaltic impact structures are in southern Brazil. Lonar Lake has a mean diameter of 1.2 kilometres (3,900 ft) and is about 137 metres (449 ft) below the crater rim. The meteor crater rim is about 1.8 kilometres (5,900 ft) in diameter. |
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