Acraman crater
Cráter Acraman
- Date
- 1986 · confidence high
- Place
- Lake Acraman, South Australia, Australia
- Credited to
- George E. Williams
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
George Williams and Victor Gostin identified beneath Lake Acraman a deeply eroded impact crater about 590 million years old, one of the largest known in Australia.
What it led to
- Correlation with Ediacaran ejecta layers
- Study of impact-related extinctions
- Cataloguing of Australian impact structures
- Dating methods using distal ejecta