The Bosumtwi crater in Ghana (West Africa) is interesting in many respects. First of all, at an age of one million years it is one of the youngest and best preserved impact craters on earth.

Lake Bosumtwi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana is the result of an impact crater formed during the Pleistocene. The crater has not been forthcoming with information; it is surrounded by a dense ...

Lake Bosumtwi, the only natural lake in Ghana, is sunk into an ancient impact crater located south-east of Kumasi. The Ashanti consider Bosumtwi a sacred lake. The Morasko Meteorite Nature Reserve ...

The lake-filled Bosumtwi crater in Ghana was estimated at about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) in diameter, but the new study revealed a ring-like ridge with a diameter of 16.7 miles (26.8 km). And the 8.7 ...

These include the many faint circles on the plains of central Canada, as well as circular crater lakes, like Lake Bosumtwi in Africa's Ghana. So far, about 182 impact craters have been identified ...

the central European strewn field is associated with the Ries crater in Germany, and the Ivory Coast strewn field originates from the Bosumtwi crater in Ghana. The holdout is the Australasian ...

The researchers analysed a sediment core pulled from the bottom of Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana’s only natural lake. The lake is an ancient meteorite impact crater, making its levels very dependent on ...

Worse still was Lake Bosumtwi. Currently a 10km-wide lake that fills an old space impact crater, it lost all of its water. Only a prolonged continent-wide drought could have had this effect. What ...

Located approximately 32 kilometres south east of Kumasi, capital of Ashanti Region, Lake Bosumtwi is believed to have been created by the impact of a meteorite. It lies in a deep circular crater ...