Ouarkziz impact crater, Tindouf province, Algeria

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 15 June 2018 at 06:28:41 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 25 June 2018 at 18:32:43 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 29 September 2018 at 18:32:48 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 01 October 2018 at 06:28:46 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 18 December 2019 at 11:14:51 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Mountains, crater, erosion, Algeria, Atlas range
Fig. 1 - S1 (30.01.2020) - Ouarkziz crater lies in Tindouf province in western Algeria, near the Morrocan border.
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Fig. 2 - S2 (18.12.2019) - It lies among the sedimentary layers of the Anti-Atlas range, formed by the collision of the African and Laurussian plates.
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Fig. 3 - S1 (25.06.2018) - The impact happened less than 70 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous Period, leaving a circular 3.5-km wide crater that revealed older layers.
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Fig. 4 - S2 (18.12.2018) - A stream channel that cuts across the center of the structure formed after the impact had occurred.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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