Shiva crater
| Shiva crater | |
|---|---|
| Impact crater/structure | |
| Confidence | Dubious |
| Diameter | 500 km (310 mi) |
| Age | Claimed to be ~66 million years Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary |
| Exposed | No |
| Drilled | No |
| Location | |
| Location | Mumbai Offshore Basin |
| Coordinates | 18°40′N 70°14′E / 18.667°N 70.233°E |
| Country | India |
The Shiva crater is the claim by paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee and colleagues that the Bombay High and Surat Depression on the Indian continental shelf west of Mumbai, India represent a 500-kilometre-wide (310 mi) impact crater, that formed around the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Chatterjee and colleagues have claimed that this could have contributed to the K-Pg extinction event. Other scholars have questioned the claims, finding that there is no evidence of an impact structure.