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To: Red Badger

The light appears to come from the upper right to the lower left of the image.

In the enlarged image the lack of a lava flow shape, and the conical shape of the dark center are consistent with this being a cinder cone from a basaltic type of rock.

The near perfectly circular shape of the outer crater lip is consistent with a very high angle ( almost 90 degrees ) of impact.

Thus, assuming all these observations are correct, it is possible that the dark colored cinder/rebound cone has been formed by ejection of rocks very deep below the impact crater.

All of this is in my humble, but ALWAYS correct opinion.


8 posted on 09/02/2011 2:55:42 PM PDT by Graewoulf ( obamatrauma"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Graewoulf

“The light appears to come from the upper right to the lower left of the image.”

Um... your monitor is upside down.


28 posted on 09/02/2011 3:37:56 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter Hobbit)
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