Camerel Crater
"What's this feature, professor?"
"That, oh that's Camerel Crater, been here forever."
"I wonder what it looks like, in person?"
"Oh, you sweet summer child, it's so huge, you cannot see it all at once. That's why it's marked as Camerel Crater West and Camerel Crater East on most maps. The hole in the crust is so old, and so big, mountains grew into the scar left by that old meteorite. The lesser Medianite Mountain Rage is what splits the two halves. It's visible from orbit, and If both sides are counted as a single entity, it is the single, largest structure in the star system. But its origins are hotly debated, as are the possible implications."
"What kind of implications, professor?"
"The Medianite Extinction barrier is known to straddle the best known age of the crater, using the very best dating techniques we have. Whatever happened, it obliterated anything that was there before."
"Or there was nothing, could it predate the Medianites?"
"The lesser Medianite range possibly, but not Canerel-Tu-Popo, who shows both rocks predating the crater, and, well, rocks from newer origin, in line with the age of the crater, and angled like a lip of the crater, it's massif is also under the lip of the creater in the Canerel-East region. But that's not why it's in your manual."
"No?"
"No, if you go to the next page, you'll see that while Canerel-Tu-Popo is interesting in its own right, far more interesting are the caves under the crater."
Type
Crater / Crater Lake / Caldera
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