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Panorama of the old silica pits High resolution MPEG-1 (10 Mb) Moderate resolution WMV (1.7 Mb) Low resolution WMV (825 Kb) |
Here we can see old silica pits where, for a few years in the 1940's, silica was mined for glass making. All of the bright white material is silica that was finely pulverized during the impact event. The presence of this silica was one of the main lines of evidence used by Daniel Barringer to support his claim that this crater was a meteorite impact crater and not a volcanic crater.
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