Bacolor Crater: Icy Impact in Utopia Labor Architect: Cass Gilbert

Architect: Cass Gilbert

Photographed by William Henry Jackson for the Detroit Publishing Company in 1900 on 8x10 glass plate negative

We will be posting some of these items individually but thought this was wonderful to see as a sheet

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Bacolor Crater: Icy Impact in Utopia Labor Architect: Cass GilbertWhen a meteorite strikes at high speed, the impact's energy blasts a crater in the ground and ejects debris in all directions. Despite the violence, however, an impact can tell scientists much about the surface where the meteorite struck by the pattern it leaves. For example, Bacolor Crater, 20 kilometers (12 miles) wide, shows many signs that at the time of impact, the subsurface held a lot of water, presumably as ice.Bacolor lies in Utopia