Gow crater
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Gow is an impact crater in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is Template:Convert in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 250 million years (Triassic or later). The crater contains a classic crater lake (Gow Lake) with an island (Calder Island) formed by the central uplift.<ref>Template:Cite Earth Impact DB</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> It is the smallest known crater in Canada with an uplift structure.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
The crater is unique in that it is the only preserved example of a transitional impact structure on earth. This is characterized by a crater having relatively smooth walls and a floor partly or completely covered by debris slumped from the crater walls. The only other example existing is in Australia, however it is extremely deteriorated. Due to this, the rock forming the crater bed is a unique form of breccia existing nowhere else on earth. This rock was formed when existing rock was liquified during the meteor impact. <ref name="thestarphoenix 2023">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The larger Deep Bay crater, of Cretaceous age, is approximately Template:Convert east of Gow crater. The Carswell impact structure, also of Cretaceous age, is to the northwest of Gow.
Gow Lake
Gow Lake<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> — the lake that fills the crater — has a surface area of Template:Convert and a shoreline that is Template:Convert long. At the centre of the lake is the recursive Calder Island.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Fish commonly found in the lake include burbot, lake trout, lake whitefish, northern pike, and walleye.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The lake, and by extension, the crater, were named after James Richard Gow. He was killed in action during World War II on 25 April 1945.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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