Summasjärvi


Lake Summanen is a medium-sized lake of Finland. It is located in Saarijärvi, in the region of Keski-Suomi. There is a Stone Age Museum in the island of Summassaari.

The Summanen crater

The 12th impact crater identified in Finland is located at the center of the lake. The crater is 2.6 kilometers wide, ~200 meters deep, and mostly buried under later sediments. The age of the crater is not known. It formed before the Quaternary glaciation, but on the other hand after the host rock which formed in the Svecofennian orogeny 1910 million years ago.
The otherwise shallow lake has a 41 m central or trench at the crater site. The location is also occupied by a significant, circular electromagnetic anomaly. The anomaly is supposedly the result of a 100 to 200 m thick subsurface lens, presumably formed of fractured rock with saline liquids. The impact origin was inferred by the anomaly and the deep, and proven by identifying shatter cones and planar deformation features in glacial erratics adjacent to the crater.