Wells Creek

	Wells Creek Basin Meteor Impact Site
This web page presents photographs and web links of Wells Creek, Tennessee. Three Volunteer State Community College professors, Clark Cropper (geology), Tim Farris (astronomy), and Keith Bell (geography) visited the site to learn more about a large meteoriod impact that occurred between 100 to 200 million years ago. The three photodocumented the tour and collected samples of shatter cones for use in our classes. Without being redundant we now present to you several useful links describing the impact area. The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture Earth Impact Database Shatter Cones Wells Creek Crater Maps and GPS Reference Google Earth Satellite Image(s) Petrogenesis of Central Uplifts in Complex Terrestrial Impact Craters Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards A recent news article in The Tennessean

Bell, Cropper, and Farris - l. to r. (photo credit: T. Farris)	Wells Creek Braccia (photo credit C. Cropper)	Clast: a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks (photo credit: C. Cropper)	Bell and Farris splitting rocks for shatter cones (photo credit: C. Cropper)	Bell and Cropper - l. to r. (photo credit: T. Farris)

Bell discovers a shatter cone (photo credit: C. Cropper)	State marker (photo credit: K. Bell)	State marker, flip-side (photo credit: K. Bell)	A weathering shattercone (photo credit: K. Bell)	Another shattercone with a quarter for scale (photo credit: K. Bell)

Panorama of the Wells Creek Basin (photo credit: T. Farris) [Note: The photo will look normal when the thumbnail expands to full size.]

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