The Marin Headlands features “excellent exposures” of pillow basalt, Sloan wrote, which is essentially “ancient ocean crust” composed of basaltic lava flows and so-called pillow lava.
Johnson reports the crater can be seen today only in a 35-mile wide dome that marks exactly where the asteroid impacted.
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