Photo: 5" x 7": Grand Aerial: Arizona Meteor Crater: Best View

Description

-The Arizona Meteor Crater-
A fine aerial in this
5" x 7" Print
of the
Arizona Meteor Crater
located about 30 miles west of Flagstaff. The crater was made about 50,000 years ago during a time when the area was an open grassland dotted with woodlands inhabited by woolly mammoths, giant ground sloths, and camels. It was uninhabited by humans, the first of whom are thought to have reached North America only around 13,000 years ago.
Also known as
The Barringer Meteorite Crater
, it's essentially a gigantic hole in the middle of the arid sandstone of the Arizona desert. A rim of smashed and jumbled boulders, some of them the size of small houses, rises 150 feet above the level of the surrounding plain. The crater itself is nearly a mile wide, and 570 feet deep.
The nickel-iron meteorite that caused this crater was about 150 feet across and struck the plain somewhere between 30,000 and 45,000 mph. The impact dug out around 175 million tons of rock and yielded 2.5 mgt. of energy released, approximately 150 times the yield of
Gadget
the first atomic bomb detonated at the Alamagordo, New Mexico test site on July 16, 1945.
Much more impact energy, equivalent to an estimated 6.5 megatons, was released into the atmosphere and generated a devastating above-ground shock wave that moved out at 1,200 mph and leveled everything within a radius of 13 miles which dissipated to hurricane-force winds that persisted to a radius of 25 miles.
A meteorite this size striking New York would easily destroy the entire city and far beyond.
This is one of the best views available of the
Arizona Meteor Crater
.
This new Color Print of the original archive is on Heavy Premium Glossy Photo Paper,
7" x 5" format
, (exact dimensions may vary) in flawless condition.
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Most of our Posters & Prints are available in 5 different sizes although exact dimensions may vary on certain views due to occasional non-standard aspect ratios:
7” x 5”: .99
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8.5" x 11": .00--.00
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13" x 19": .50
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18" x 24": .50
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24" x 36": .50--.50.
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ABOUT OUR PRINTS:
All our views are printed to order by one of the most advanced Photo Art Printers in the industry that uses ultra chrome archival ink rated to maintain its original color characteristics for 125 years and beyond.
The detail and definition of the shipped product is usually excellent and much sharper than the low resolution image used here except in the rare exception that it be the clearest known view worldwide in which case it would be sold on the merits of its rarity alone and clearly stated as such.
Our printing process results in an exceptionally vivid, colorful and detailed view suitable for museum or gallery display.
All our 8” x 11” prints are shipped flat with a rigid cardboard stabilizer for durable impact and bend protection while our posters are shipped rolled in a rigid cylindrical tube that’s placed inside a 2nd shipping tube for double impact protection. To date neither has ever failed our eBay shipping delivery system.
We combine shipping on multiple purchases so you only pay one reduced shipping charge regardless of how many items you purchase.
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