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North American Impact Craters

A map of North America. The sea is a light blue, the land is depicted in white, with no borders or features. There are ~30 circles of varying size and colour showing the locations of impact craters. The circle size denotes the dimater in km (legend entries 50, 100, 150) and the color refers to the age in millions of years (0-1250)
North American Impact Craters: Geologists are great. Made for day 10 - North America - of the 2023 #30DayMapChallenge.
projectionAlbers Equal Area; centarl latitude: 96W, standard parallels: 20N & 60N, datum: NAD83
toolsPython libraries: geopandas, cartopy, matplotlib, pandas
dataEarth Impact Database, Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick Fredericton
fontDejaVu Sans Mono
commentsA fortuitous little crater in the neatline, a quirk of the chosen projection
date10/11/2023