Like Meteor Crater in Arizona, Wolfe Creek crater owes its well-preserved state to both age (around 300,000 years) and the environment of the Australian Outback. Learn about our remote access options, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, 2522 Australia, Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, PO1 2UP UK, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 0200 Australia, INSTAAR and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80309 USA, Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2601 Australia. The newly formed crater also deflected the local wind field and created a new set of sand dunes. Situated on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert is the second largest crater on Earth in which meteorite fragments have been found, the Wolfe Creek Crater.. Perhaps best known for its appearance in the two Wolf Creek films and the TV show, Wolfe Creek crater is one of the best preserved craters in the world, measuring 880 metres across.. Wolfe Creek crater lies in northwestern Australia at the edge of the Great Sandy Desert. Changes in production rates and scaling factors since the original dating work revise the impact age to 61.1 ± 4.8 ka, or ~20% older than previously reported. Their legend describes a rainbow snake that emerged from the crater and formed a nearby creek as it slithered away. (2019, November 21). These include the Henbury craters, Wolfe Creek Crater, Gosse’s Bluff crater, and Liverpool crater. "Wolfe Creek Crater younger than previously thought." The large but apparently craterless Eltanin impact (2.5 Ma) into the Pacific Ocean has been suggested as contributing to the glaciations and cooling during the Pliocene. However, according to a new study led by Dr Tim Barrows from the University of Portsmouth, the most likely age for the impact is 120,000 years ago. ), leaving the second biggest crater in the world from which bits of meteorite have been collected. The … The Wolfe Creek Crater is one of planet Earth's best-preserved craters, partly due to its relatively young age, but also due to its location. The crater has a diameter of about 880 metres with the crater floor now about 55 metres below the rim, although at impact it was probably about 150 metres deep. Australian actress Cassandra Magrath began acting at the age of eleven in the children's television show Ocean Girl. September 22, 2006 TIFF. Wolfe Creek è un cratere meteoritico (astroblema) situato nell'Australia Occidentale., Vi si accede attraverso la Tanami Road, a 105 km a sud della città di Halls Creek.Il cratere si trova al centro del Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater National Park. We also present a new topographic survey of the crater using photogrammetry. Crater was created by more than 50 000 tonnes heavy meteorite less than 300 000 years ago. They also predict a crater depth of 178 metres and that it is filled by about 120 metres of sediment, mostly sand blown in from the desert. Working off-campus? Wolfe Creek Crater . Useful websites Approaching the crater on land, visitors must first climb over the 80 ft (25 meter) high rim before descending to the sand-covered crater floor 165 ft (50 meters) below the rim. It took Rene Boissevain 42 years to convince his friend to donate it to the museum - and just two weeks to be stolen The crater is central to the Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater National Park. The full text of this article hosted at iucr.org is unavailable due to technical difficulties. Results from the two dating techniques mutually support each other within the same age range.". The craters are only found in the arid parts of Australia. Last, we review the age of Meteor Crater in Arizona. Wolfe Creek crater lies in northwestern Australia at the edge of the Great Sandy Desert. First, the researchers collected samples from around the crater rim and applied exposure dating, which estimates the length of time that a rock has been exposed at the Earth's surface to cosmic radiation. Le cratère de Wolfe Creek ou cratère de la rivière Wolfe est un cratère météoritique se situant au cœur du parc national du cratère de Wolfe Creek dans l'État d’Australie-Occidentale . They found it is likely to be 61,000 years old, over 10,000 years older than previously thought. It also features in the Stan Australia streaming service original television series with the same name. Dr Barrows said: "Although the rate is only one large meteor hitting Australia every 17,000 years, it isn't that simple. University of Portsmouth. The impact of the meteorite tilted and overturned the rock, exposing rock that was previously shielded from cosmic radiation. These range in age form a few thousand years to over a billion years. She also stared in the 1996 television show The Wayne Manifesto. Taking into account that arid Australia is only about one per cent of the surface, the rate increases to one hitting the Earth every 180 years or so. Enter your email address below and we will send you your username, If the address matches an existing account you will receive an email with instructions to retrieve your username, I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of Use. Wolfe Creek Crater younger than previously thought. ScienceDaily. ID: 16546465. Use the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. The age of Wolfe Creek meteorite crater ( Kandimalal ), Western Australia. Having an accurate age for the Wolfe Creek Crater impact enabled the researchers to calculate how frequently such impacts occur. 2 Wolfe Creek Crater (WCC, Fig. Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. In this paper, we present new ages for Wolfe Creek Crater from exposure dating using the cosmogenic nuclides 10Be and 26Al, together with optically stimulated luminescence ages (OSL) on sand from a site created by the impact. The researchers were able to produce a new topographic survey of the crater using aerial photos by Ted Brattstrom, a school teacher from Hawaii. Together with Meteor Crater, it is one of the two largest craters on Earth from which meteorite fragments have been recovered. Coordinate. Piecing together the real age of Wolfe Creek Crater In the study , published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science , researchers from the University of Portsmouth, Australia and the USA calculated the new age of Wolfe Creek Crater using … https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfe-Creek-Krater-Nationalpark Wolfe Creek Crater is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics.If you would like to participate, visit the project page. and you may need to create a new Wiley Online Library account. From this, the researchers were able to calculate as to how often these crater-producing events occur. Wolfe Creek Crater, distorted blocks of quartzite in the rim / Harclade, Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 Impact. "Elsewhere, the craters are destroyed by geomorphic activity like river migration or slope processes in the mountains. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. Relations. The crater was featured in the 2005 horror film Wolf Creek, and the sequel in 2013, Wolf Creek 2. Almost circular, Wolfe Creek Crater (also known as Wolf Creek Crater) is considered the second largest crater in the world from which meteorite fragments have been collected. Including Wolfe Creek Crater, there are seven sets of impact craters in Australia dating to within the past 120,000 years, said Professor Barrows, a Future Fellow in UOW’s School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences. Wolfe Creek in Australia was formed by a giant meteorite that crashed into the earth 300,000 years ago. But, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Portsmouth and ANU , the most likely age for the impact is only 120,000 years ago. Together with Meteor Crater, it is one of the two largest craters on Earth from which meteorite fragments have been recovered. Wolfe Creek Crater is the second largest crater in the world, measuring 880 metres across and to a depth about 60 metres. Using the same geochronological dating techniques, the researchers were also able to recalculate the age of the Meteor Crater in Arizona. Wolfe Creek Crater is located 151 km south of Halls Creek on a well made gravel road. 2 Wolfe Creek Crater (WCC, Fig. Having an accurate age for the Wolfe Creek Crater impact enabled the researchers to calculate how frequently such impacts occur.