BP Structure

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Oblique Landsat image of BP crater draped over digital elevation model (x5 vertical exaggeration); screen capture from NASA World Wind

The BP Structure, also known as Gebel Dalma, is an exposed impact crater in Libya. It is so called because it was identified by a BP (then British Petroleum) geological survey team.<ref>Template:Cite Earth Impact DB</ref>

French et al. state that the BP Structure and the larger Oasis crater, about Template:Cvt to the south, were probably simultaneous impacts.<ref>BEVAN M. FRENCH, JAMES R. UNDERWOOD, EDWARD P. FISK; Shock-Metamorphic Features in Two Meteorite Impact Structures, Southeastern Libya. GSA Bulletin 1974;; 85 (9): 1425–1428. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1974)85<1425:SFITMI>2.0.CO;2</ref> Both impacts deform the Nubian Sandstone of early Cretaceous age.

See also

• Silverpit crater

External links

• Anonymous (nd) Africa (Impact Craters), Earth Impact Database, Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada.

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