I crawled on the ground and looked at the miniscule. Arctic Char may have swum upstream in the creek through this gully and into the crater from one of the local lakes.Bouguer Anomaly gravity studies reveal a profile with a well-defined negative anomaly that is symmetrical with the crater. You will also go for a beautiful hike to Sanguammallaaluk and the Puvirnituq River Canyon (10 km) where you will stop by the Sanguammaaluk camp to have tea. 1950.We were off the ground at Kuujjuaq around 3PM with the Chubb Crater, a major attraction (for us!) It was obvious we were visitors of course and most gave us friendly waves and smiles. The exposed bedrock of the Pingualuit Meteorite Crater’s target rock consists of a mélange of metamorphosed, Archean plutonic rocks cut by rare basic dykes (Shoemaker, 1962).
Pingualuit: Pingualuit: In the great land of Nunavik, the Parc national des Pingualuit is located in the centre of the Ungava plateau and protects a meteoritic crater filled with exceptionally clear blue water.The Inuit call the area pingualuit, which means “pimple.”This humorous descriptor refers to the rippled crater head that rises to meet the immense Arctic sky. The far rim is 3 km in the distance, a challenging hike!My exploration and documentation of craters (presently only on this planet).When I saw the crater for the first time out of the airplane window, I could feel that a colossal and terrifying event had happened here suddenly and with unimaginable force. The 40Ar-39Ar dating method of the impact melt rocks determined the age of the impact to be 1.4 million years. Discover Pingualuit Crater Lake in Rivière-Koksoak, Québec: A lake in the middle of the tundra of Quebec is said to be the purest freshwater lake on Earth. It would have been nice to have landed and visited it on foot but this was a pretty unfriendly and desolate place. A hypothesis of how the fish originally “got into” the crater’s lake is possibly explained by this gully.
I don’t know if the shape of the crater has this acoustic property but it is one of the quietest places outdoors I have ever experienced.After a skilfully executed approach by our very professional pilots we landed on a dirt strip so short it could have been the deck of an aircraft carrier.The impact melt rocks correspond to a chemical mixture of some of the local target rocks. Although it is a young crater by geological standards, it is speculated to have lived through two ice ages.We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the world’s hidden wonders. Pingualuit impactite contains enrichments in Ir, Ni, Co and Cr suggesting that the impacting body was chondritic in composition with siderophile element enrichment (Grieve 1991). That explained the low cloud layer!This is a “thumbnail” of an original LIFE Magazine article dated August 1950, which documents the first report of Dr. Meen’s exploration of the Pingualuit Crater. It rained most of the time but not enough to get rid of the snow patches nearby. We were finally looking at the lake and were surrounded by the crater walls. The Pingualuit Crater is of special importance because its discovery and identification as an impact crater gave rise to the identification of 26 authenticated impact craters/structures on the Canadian Shield (Grieve, 1991).So in August 2008, after a round-about trip flying in my airplane from Ottawa to Kuujjuaq, then air-chartering via Kangiqsujuaq, we finally arrived at our destination, the Pingualuit Impact Crater.