The isolated hills south of Fort Stockton are the scar of an impact less than 100 million years ago. What stands here is not the crater — that eroded away long ago — but the central uplift, the rebound peak that rose in the seconds after the strike, where rock from thousands of feet down was driven upward and left standing about 800 feet above the flat. Shatter cones and shocked quartz confirm the origin, and the original crater is estimated at around 8 miles across. It was studied in the 1960s as a ground-level analogue for the central peaks of lunar craters.
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