Latitude and longitude of Cloud Creek crater

Satellite map of Cloud Creek crater

Cloud Creek crater is an impact crater in Wyoming, United States. The crater is located in Natrona County, about 48 miles northwest of Casper, near the center of a geological feature known as the Casper Arch. The Cloud Creek structure is circular with a current diameter of about 7 km, and it is buried beneath about 1200 m of Mesozoic rocks. The age of the structure is estimated to be 190 ± 20 million years, which means that it formed as the result of an impact during the early part of the Jurassic Period. This impact feature is not exposed at the surface, but it is known only through wells drilled for oil and gas. First reported by Donald Stone, Cloud Creek is a circular structure documented using several 2D reflection seismic lines of fair to good quality, gravity, magnetic and borehole data. The structure has a central core of brecciated, fractured and faulted rocks uplifted up to 520 m relative to the normal stratigraphy outside the structure. The core is surrounded by an annular trough and a detached fault-bounded rim anticline. The rim anticline defines the 7 km diameter of the structure. The structure was compressed and upthrown during the Laramide compression.

Latitude: 43° 06' 60.00" N
Longitude: -106° 44' 59.99" W

Read about Cloud Creek crater in the Wikipedia Satellite map of Cloud Creek crater in Google Maps

GPS coordinates of Cloud Creek crater, United States

Download as JSON