Karakul, Qarokul (Kyrgyz for "black lake", replacing the older Tajik name Siob) is a 25 km (16 mi) diameter lake within a 52 km (32 mi) impact crater. It is located in the Tajik National Park in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan.
Karakul lies within a circular depression interpreted as an impact crater with a rim diameter of 52 km (32 mi). The crater is relatively recent: its age is estimated as approximately 25 Ma or less than 23 Ma[4] or probably from the Pliocene (5.3 to 2.6 Ma). But the Earth Impact Database (EID) also lists it as younger than 5 Ma. It is larger than the Eltanin impact (2.5 Ma), which has already been suggested as a contributor to the cooling and ice cap formation in the Northern Hemisphere during the late Pliocene.
The Karakul impact structure was first identified around 1987 through studies of imagery taken from spacе.
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