On the detection of the Wilkes Land impact crater

• Published in: Earth, Planets and Space
• Main Authors: Jaroslav Klokočník, Jan Kostelecký, Aleš Bezděk
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2018
• Subjects: East Antarctica; Wilkes Land anomaly; Impact crater/basin/mascon; Antarctic gravito-topographic model; Gravity aspects; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation; G; Geodesy; QB275-343; Geology; QE1-996.5; Antarctic; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-018-0904-7; https://doaj.org/article/46a3e547a34348ffb4c15653ceae4d2f

Abstract The definitive existence of a giant impact crater, two times larger than the Chixulub crater in the Yucatan peninsula, from an extraterrestrial origin, 1.6 km beneath Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, remain controversial. Here, we use the latest high-resolution gravito-topographic geopotential...