We stopped and did some sights along the way to our next destination. First stop was the Meteor Crater just off Interstate 30, East of Flagstaff.
Some half a billion years ago a meteorite or dense cluster of meteorites estimated to have been about 150 feet across and weighting several hundred thousand tons, struck the rocky plains. It is said to have been equivalent to a force greater than 20 million tons of TNT.
This crater in the earth is 700 feet deep and over 4000feet across. During it’s formation over 175 million tons of limestone and sandstone were abruptly thrown out to form a continuous blanket of debris surrounding the crater for a distance of over one mile.
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