Lonar Lake, Maharashtra, India

Lonar Lake, also known as Lonar crater, is a saline, soda lake, located at Lonar, 79 km from Buldhana city in Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India. It is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument. Lonar Lake is in an impact crater created by a meteorite impact during the Pleistocene Epoch. It is one of only four known hyper-velocity impact craters in basaltic rock …
Lonar Lake, also known as Lonar crater, is a saline, soda lake, located at Lonar, 79 km from Buldhana city in Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India. It is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument. Lonar Lake is in an impact crater created by a meteorite impact during the Pleistocene Epoch. It is one of only four known hyper-velocity impact craters in basaltic rock anywhere on Earth. The other three basaltic impact structures are in southern Brazil. Lonar Lake has a mean diameter of 1.2 kilometres and is about 137 metres below the crater rim. The meteor crater rim is about 1.8 kilometres in diameter.
  • Location: Lonar, Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India
  • Basin countries: India
  • Max. length: 1,830 m (6,000 ft)
  • Surface area: 1.13 km² (0.44 sq mi)
  • Average depth: 137 m (449 ft)
  • Max. depth: 150 m (490 ft)
  • Water volume: 0.15 km³ (0.036 cu mi)

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