Mjølnir crater

Template:Short description Template:Infobox terrestrial impact site Mjølnir is a meteorite crater on the floor of Barents Sea off the coast of Norway.<ref>Template:Cite Earth Impact DB</ref> It is Template:Convert in diameter and the age is estimated to be 142.0 ± 2.6 million years (Early Cretaceous). The bolide was an estimated Template:Convert wide.

Etymology

Mjølnir is the name of Thor's mythological hammer. Giving the crater this name was presumably an allusion to the power of the weapon, which is often described as breaking and smashing rocks.

Description

In 2006, a group of Swedish geologists discovered indications of a tsunami flooding the Swedish southern coast at about 145 million years ago. It is speculated<ref>Tsunami drabbade Skane</ref> to be associated with the Mjølnir impact, together with similar indications discovered in 2000 in France.

External links

• Mjølnir at Earth Impact Database
• Mjølnir impact crater homepage - archived from the original on August 18, 2017.

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