Editing Geography of Alabama (section)

==Wetumpka Meteor Crater==
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Wetumpka is the home of "Alabama's greatest natural disaster."<ref name = "nfqpzf">[http://www.wetumpkalibrary.com/Default.asp?ID=207 "Wetumpka Impact Crater"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928230310/http://www.wetumpkalibrary.com/Default.asp?ID=207 |date=2007-09-28 }} Wetumpka Public Library, accessed Aug. 21, 2007.</ref>  A {{convert|1000|ft|m|-2|adj=on}}-wide<ref name = "nfqpzf"/> meteorite hit the area about 80 million years ago. The hills just east of downtown showcase the eroded remains of the {{convert|5|mi|km|adj=on|spell=in}} wide impact crater that was blasted into the bedrock, with the area labeled the [[Wetumpka crater]] or astrobleme ("star-wound") for the concentric rings of fractures and zones of shattered rock can be found beneath the surface.<ref>"The Wetumpka Astrobleme" by John C. Hall, Alabama Heritage, Fall 1996, Number 42.</ref> In 2002, Christian Koeberl with the Institute of Geochemistry University of Vienna published evidence and established the site as an internationally recognized impact crater.<ref name = "nfqpzf"/>