Île Rouleau crater

Template:Short description Template:Infobox terrestrial impact site Île Rouleau is an impact crater in Baie-James, Quebec, Canada,<ref>Earth Impact DB - Île Rouleau</ref> located on a small, uninhabited island in Lake Mistassini in the centre of the province.

The crater is Template:Convert in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 300 million years (Permian or younger). Part of the crater is exposed to the surface, but most of it is under the waters of the lake.

Further reading

• Caty, J. L., Chown, E.H. and Roy,D.W., A new astrobleme: Ile Rouleau structure, Lake Mistassini, Quebec. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 13, pp. 824–831. 1976
• Evangelatos, J., Butler, K.E. and Spray, J.G., A marine magnetic study of a carbonate-hosted impact structure: Ile Rouleau, Canada. Geophysical Journal International, v. 179, pp. 171–181. 2009

External links

• Aerial Exploration of the Ile Rouleau Structure