Chiemgau impact crater

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Chiemgau impact crater refers to Lake Tüttensee created by a Holocene meteorite impact near Lake Chiemsee and the foothills of the Alps in southeast Germany. The coordinates of Lake Tüttensee are 47°50'48 N; 12°34'05 E. The strewn field comprises more than 80 individual craters with diameters exceeding 3 m spread over an area of roughly 60 km x 30 km. After the discovery of the Chiemgau strewn field, much work has been done on the Lake Tüttensee crater and its surroundings comprising geological field work, geophysical measurements and petrographic analyses. The lake is 400 m in diameter and 17 m deep encircled by an 8 m high rim of approximately 500 m in diameter. According to radiocarbon data and archeological finds, the impact is younger than 2,500 BC.