El término Toms Canyon impression crater figura en la edición en idioma inglés de Wikipedia. Allí se cube al respecto lo siguiente:
The Toms Canyon influence crater is the location the place a number of meteors struck the Atlantic continental shelf, about one hundred sixty kilometres (ninety nine mi) east of Atlantic City, New Jersey. The submarine canyon is the drowned glacial-age mouth of Toms River.
The crater dates to the late Eocene geological time interval (about 35 million years in the past), and should have been shaped by the identical occasion because the bigger Chesapeake Bay impression crater, 320 kilometres (200 mi) to the southwest on the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, and in addition courting to the late Eocene.
Seismic reflection profiles, studied by USGS scientists, present that the crater was shaped by an object or objects which struck from the southwest at a glancing angle and shaped an extended, oval crater. Since impression, sediment crammed a part of the crater, giving it its current triangular form.
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