Couture crater

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Couture crater in November 2015

Lac Couture is a lake in Northern Quebec, Canada. It is located near Hudson Bay in the Kativik territory. The lake is approximately 150 meters deep.<ref name=beals1964>Evidence Suggesting a Meteorite Impact Origin for Lac Couture, Quebec. Beals, C. S.; Dence, M. R.; Cohen, A. J., Astronomical Journal, Vol. 69, p. 134 (1964)</ref>

Most of the lake covers an 8 km in diameter impact crater. The crater is estimated to be 430 ± 25 million years old (Silurian).<ref>Template:Cite Earth Impact DB</ref> Breccia, suggesting impact origin, is present in boulders at the surface on islands around the perimeter of the lake.<ref name=beals1964/> There is also a 25-meter central uplift in the lake floor, suggesting complex crater morphology.<ref>Flamini E., Coletta A., Battagliere M.L., Virelli M. (2019) Couture, Canada. In: Flamini E., Di Martino M., Coletta A. (eds) Encyclopedic Atlas of Terrestrial Impact Craters. Springer, Cham.</ref>

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