Large -- Medium Odessa Crater is a smallish 200m diameter crater near Odessa, TX. Erosion has filled it in until now its only a couple of meters deep. |
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Large -- Medium Unfortunately, it was cold, rainy, and windy the morning that we looked at the crater. |
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Large -- Medium Iron-Nickel fragments of the impactor at the crater museum. |
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Large -- Medium Upturned limestone beds near the crater's rim. |
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Large -- Medium Jani plays with the fossiliferous limstone. |
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Large -- Medium I found this super-sweet fossiliferous limestone with sand embedded in the shells inside the anticline in one of the trenches that researchers dug across this area in the 1930s. |
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Large -- Medium That's my thumb. |
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Large -- Medium Dave Kring standing on the anticline with the pretty fossils with sand in them shown a few pictures ago. |
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Large -- Medium Odessa is actually a field of craters, and this is us overlooking crater 2. |
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Large -- Medium After looking at the crater, we were treated to a BBQ lunch by the man that has worked to preserve the crater as a museum. |
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Large -- Medium An impromptu (as far as we knew, anyway) hobnob session with local crater officials followed. |
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Large -- Medium This is the mother of one of the boys that found the Monahans meteorite in 2001 while they were playing basketball. |
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Large -- Medium Those old self-portrait shots just don't work very well with the new Sigma cacmera. |