IMPACT CRATER IN WETUMPKA, ALABAMA

OLLI of Greater Birmingham presents: IMPACT CRATER IN WETUMPKA, ALABAMA with James Lowery, retired Director of Management Services, UAB, and a member of 9 environmental boards.  Scientists estimate that the energy released during the explosion that created the Wetumpka Impact Crater was over 175,000 times the energy of the nuclear bomb detonated at Hiroshima, Japan in 1945.  Late Cretaceous dinosaurs and all living things out to a radius of many miles would have been killed almost instantly.  The presentation will provide information about the crater, which is located beside the Coosa River in central Alabama, including photographs of the crater as it appears today.  Information on how to see it today when in the Wetumpka area will also be presented.