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Wetumpka Impact Crater
Wetumpka, Alabama
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This section of Buck Ridge Road is unusual because hills related to the impact of a large meteor can easily be seen on both sides of the road. These hills contain large boulders that came to rest near the center of the Wetumpka Impact Crater. Scientists say the impact would have caused Alabama's greatest earthquake, measuring 8.5 to 9.0 on the Richter scale, and the crater formed 85 million years ago.
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