There was an attempt to find the meteor that created Meteor Crater. Unfortunately the guy looking for iron chunks didn't find any. That was about last mid-century. Its now protected.
Last time I read anything on this particular crater is it may not have been particularly solid, and mostly vaporized and/or fell apart at impact.
There are supposedly small bits of it for some distance outside the crater, but that entire area is protected by law.
Dalton: I'd recommend making the crater whatever size seems best to you; there's no hard and fast rule about crater sizes. From your description, I'd suggest trying different sizes and distances to the coast to see what best fits to give the narrow channel you need. A fracture in the crater rim connecting with a local line of weakness in the crustal rocks would work equally as well, so you don't necessarily need the two edge lines to intersect.
Meteor Crater/Canyon Diablo Meteorites: A substantial number of pieces of the Meteor Crater impactor have survived, known as the Canyon Diablo meteorites. The larger pieces, held by museums now, and weighing between 19 and 639 kg each, total over 3.3 tonnes. Very many smaller pieces (that is, less than 19 kg) exist too, and there are likely still lots scattered over the countryside near (but outside) the crater rim. From these, it's clear the original impactor was largely composed of solid nickel-iron, technically an octahedrite meteorite. Part of it will have vaporised during its atmospheric flight, and the bulk of the rest when it hit, so what's left now are just tiny remnants!
Chicxulub Crater: It certainly didn't help at the end of the Cretaceous period, though the massive outpourings of lava that created the Deccan Traps in India before and after it happened may have been important too. Many unknowns remain regarding the effects on the world overall from both events. The late Jurassic extinctions weren't anything like so dramatic, and there don't seem to have been any such significant geological events by contrast (sorry Jim ).
I have been wrestling with the tricky issue of colour schemes all day every day for the last fortnight. You would be surprised just how much of a problem it is if the grass isn't just exactly the right shade of green on the hills and the mountains and the mountain background and the dry grass and the normal grass! And that's just the green bits. LOL!
This is my test site as it stands right now. As you can see there are still no settlements, but at least I think I have the green-orange transition worked out and the mountain backgrounds and the colours of the mountains seem to be working ok... until I go and change something else and upset it all over again.
This is the first example map for "Spectrum Overland - part 1" as it will appear in the July issue of this year's Cartographer's Annual. I believe Ralf is doing a second example map if he has time, and there will be more symbols and fills in part 2, due out in September this year.
Grown so used to closely examining individual elements of this package that it seems very strange to suddenly see an entire map in the style! THIS IS NOT A COMPLAINT, YOU UNDERSTAND!!!
Anyone with a Facebook account can watch Ralf doing a map in the new style in about 15 minutes if you go to the PF FB page. Or if you miss it the recorded version will be available on YouTube a short time later.
Sue, that bit from here made me look at contrast between sea & land in a whole new way. I really see it in that last image you've posted. It makes for a much more interesting map and easy for the eye to take in. It's amazing what subtle things can do for inherently complex images, simplifying them in a way (a good way!).
Worth saying I think that the first part of this wonderful new overland style has just been released into the wild earlier today, via the July issue of the Cartographer's Annual.
There are certainly the first few maps appearing on the FB Group page today, so I guess it's out of the box now! LOL!
More to come in part 2.
I will be running a poll on the FB Group page to see what people really want in part 2, bearing in mind that there is a time limit and not all suggestions will make it through.
For those who don't like FB I can take suggestions here as well.
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Last time I read anything on this particular crater is it may not have been particularly solid, and mostly vaporized and/or fell apart at impact.
There are supposedly small bits of it for some distance outside the crater, but that entire area is protected by law.
Meteor Crater/Canyon Diablo Meteorites: A substantial number of pieces of the Meteor Crater impactor have survived, known as the Canyon Diablo meteorites. The larger pieces, held by museums now, and weighing between 19 and 639 kg each, total over 3.3 tonnes. Very many smaller pieces (that is, less than 19 kg) exist too, and there are likely still lots scattered over the countryside near (but outside) the crater rim. From these, it's clear the original impactor was largely composed of solid nickel-iron, technically an octahedrite meteorite. Part of it will have vaporised during its atmospheric flight, and the bulk of the rest when it hit, so what's left now are just tiny remnants!
Chicxulub Crater: It certainly didn't help at the end of the Cretaceous period, though the massive outpourings of lava that created the Deccan Traps in India before and after it happened may have been important too. Many unknowns remain regarding the effects on the world overall from both events. The late Jurassic extinctions weren't anything like so dramatic, and there don't seem to have been any such significant geological events by contrast (sorry Jim
It's for the July issue of this year's Cartographer's Annual.
I have been wrestling with the tricky issue of colour schemes all day every day for the last fortnight. You would be surprised just how much of a problem it is if the grass isn't just exactly the right shade of green on the hills and the mountains and the mountain background and the dry grass and the normal grass! And that's just the green bits. LOL!
This is my test site as it stands right now. As you can see there are still no settlements, but at least I think I have the green-orange transition worked out and the mountain backgrounds and the colours of the mountains seem to be working ok... until I go and change something else and upset it all over again.
I've just realised by looking at that snapshot that I've completely forgotten to do anything about the dry hills.
(I think I'm not sleeping very well in this heat!)
Combined with the arid mountains and hills I guess it could be used as a moonscape set, though I hadn't thought of it that way until you suggested it
Jim - It's a reasonably large symbol, so it might be ok. That's the default symbol size on show.
I saw that Daisho had made a comment, but I wasn't able to respond to him!
If you read this, Daisho - thank you, and you're welcome
Well done, Sue!
There are certainly the first few maps appearing on the FB Group page today, so I guess it's out of the box now! LOL!
More to come in part 2.
I will be running a poll on the FB Group page to see what people really want in part 2, bearing in mind that there is a time limit and not all suggestions will make it through.
For those who don't like FB I can take suggestions here as well.