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Image: Beaverhead shatter cone

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Description: Image of a shatter cone collected by Chris Anderson and Terry Wofford on 21 July 2013 in the Medicine Lodge Valley of Western Montana, USA. The fracture pattern in this sandstone is indicative of having been formed by a large meteorite impact, in this case the Beaverhead Impact centered near Challis, Idaho, USA.
Title: Beaverhead shatter cone
Credit: Own work
Author: Idaho Astro
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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