Goat Paddock crater

Goat Paddock is a 5 km-diameter near-circular bowl-shaped depression in a range of gently dipping Proterozoic sandstone in the Kimberley Region of northern Western Australia, 106 km west-southwest of Halls Creek. It is interpreted as an ancient meteorite impact crater, the evidence including breccia containing melted rocks, silica glass, shatter cones and shocked quartz.^[1][2][3] Drilling shows that the crater is filled with about 200 m of ancient lake sediments containing Early Eocene pollen, this age thus giving a minimum estimate for the age of the crater itself.^[1] The crater is not perfectly circular, but slightly elongated in a north–south direction, suggesting that the projectile struck at low angle from either the north or south.

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  Oblique Landsat image draped over digital elevation data (x3 vertical exaggeration), Goat Paddock crater (circular feature in centre); screen capture from the NASA World Wind program
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  The crater can be seen at the centre of this image

Goat Paddock crater
Landsat image of the Goat Paddock crater (circular feature in centre); screen capture from the NASA World Wind program
Impact crater/structure
Confidence	Confirmed
Diameter	5.1 km (3.2 mi)
Age	<50 Ma Eocene
Exposed	Yes
Drilled	No
Location
Location	Kimberley Region
Coordinates	18°20′S 126°40′E
Country	Australia
State	Western Australia
Location of the crater in Western Australia