Tenoumer 2002

                         

 

                       


ET POURQUOI PAS AOUELLOUL

Le trajet avait été facile. On avait quitté Tenoumer mercredi dans la matinée. L'avion de retour, à Atar, c'était dimanche.

Et Aouelloul n'est qu'à 400 km de Tenoumer

Allons y !

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C'est plus intime que Tenoumer.

Le même age environ, mais seulement 400 mètres de diamètre !             

Et on y trouve du "Aouelloul glass"                                                              

       The Adrar Desert of Mauritania in the West Sahara is home to a typical flat bowl shaped crater about 350 meters across. Impact glasses were first described by Campbell-Smith W. and Hey M.H. in 1952. Aouelloul glass resembles Darwin glass and is made of small, black, inhomogeneous, irregularly shaped glass chunks. The glass was found to contain lots of schlieren and half-disintegrated minerals when first analyses were conducted in 1966. The age of these impact glasses is estimated at 3.25 million years.