The Victoria Island structure is a bowl-shaped structure buried in the shale sediments of the
Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, west of
Stockton, California
Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County, California, San Joaquin County in the Central Valley (California), Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. Stockton was founded by Carlos Maria Weber in 1849 after he acquir ...
. The circular structure is part of a former sea bed, and lies 1,490–1,600 meters (4,890–4,250 ft) below sea level.
Discovered during
oil exploration and reported at the
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, in March 2007, it is thought to be a buried
impact crater formed between 37 and 49 million years ago.
, which the structure is named for, is in the San Joaquin River Delta at approximately .
The current publications do not list a more precise location for the impact structure than the island.
See also
*
List of possible impact structures on Earth
References
External links
BBC NewsAerial Exploration of the Victoria Island Structure
Impact craters of the United States
Eocene impact craters
Possible impact craters on Earth
Landforms of San Joaquin County, California
Landforms of California
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