Kara-Kul
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For other uses, see Karakul (disambiguation).
Kara-Kul is a 25-kilometer (16-mile) diameter lake in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan, and lies at an altitude of 3,900 meters (13,000 feet) above mean sea level. Kara-Kul was formed by a meteorite impact event less than 5 million years ago, leaving a crater with a rim diameter of 45 kilometers (28 miles).
A peninsula projecting from the south shore and an island off the north shore divide it into two basins, a smaller eastern one which is shallow, 13 to 19 meters, and a larger western one, which has depths of 221 to 230 meters. It has no drainage outlet. Interestingly, the Kara-Kul impact structure remained unidentified until it was discovered though studies of imagery taken from space.
[edit] External links
- Kara-Kul. Earth Impact Database. Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick. Retrieved on 2006-05-25.
- Kara-Kul Structure, Tajikistan. NASA Earth Observatory. Retrieved on 2006-05-25.
- Kara-Kul image on Google Maps
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