Mien is a lake in southern
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
, 12 km (7.5 mi) southwest of the town of
Tingsryd. The lake lies within a
meteorite
A meteorite is a rock (geology), rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or Natural satellite, moon. When the original object enters the atmosphere, various factors such as friction, pressure, and chemical ...
crater
A crater is a landform consisting of a hole or depression (geology), depression on a planetary surface, usually caused either by an object hitting the surface, or by geological activity on the planet. A crater has classically been described ...
.
The eroded crater is marked by a 5.5-km (3.4-mi) diameter circular
lake
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...
(Lake Mien).
The original crater
rim is estimated to have been about 9 km in diameter before erosion.
Its age is estimated to be 121.0 ± 2.3 million years (Early
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 143.1 to 66 mya (unit), million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era (geology), Era, as well as the longest. At around 77.1 million years, it is the ...
).
References
External links
Google map of 50 largest craters
Impact craters of Sweden
Cretaceous impact craters
Lakes of Kronoberg County
Landforms of Kronoberg County
Impact crater lakes
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