
سودرفیردن
Sign in to savethumb|250px|View of the basin of the crater remnant from Öjberget, a hill that belongs to the Rim (crater)|crater rim Söderfjärden is a polder in Ostrobothnia, western Finland, 10 kilometres south of the town of Vaasa. The plain is in an impact crater dating back to more than 640 million years ago (Proterozoic, near the end of the Cryogenian). The crater's diameter is and its maximum depth is . It is filled with Cambrian sandstones leaving only the outer rim visible. There is also a central uplift, which is buried. After rising from the sea due to post-glacial rebound, Söderfjärden was a wetla
Key facts
- Terrestrial impact site.name
- Söderfjärden
- Terrestrial impact site.photo
- Söderfjärden Landsat.jpg
- Terrestrial impact site.photo_caption
- Söderfjärden is visible as the hexagonal cultivated area in this Landsat image
- Terrestrial impact site.map
- Finland
- Terrestrial impact site.confidence
- Confirmed
- Terrestrial impact site.age
- 640 Ma
- Terrestrial impact site.exposed
- No
- Terrestrial impact site.drilled
- Yes
- Terrestrial impact site.country
- Finland
- Terrestrial impact site.municipality
- Vaasa
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- impact crater
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Korsholm
- Image
- Soderfjarden viljapelto.jpg
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- Commons category
- Söderfjärden
- inception
- 520000000-
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On the map
2 mapped locations