Omeonga

Omeonga is a town in the Sankuru province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It lies around 25 miles (40 km) south southeast of the nearest large town, Katako-Kombe. The Lomami river also passes nearby.

For comparison, the Manicouagan impact structure.

Chiefs or possessors of the name Omeonga are considered noble. It is also a name meaning "Man of Pillars" or "Noble".^{[citation needed]}

Impact structure

The town lies near the center of a 30 km diameter depression, which is a proposed but unconfirmed ancient impact structure called the "Wembo-Nyama ring structure".^[1][2][3] The roundness of the ring is underlined by a tributary of the Lomami river.^[4] A similar visual effect can be seen with Manicouagan impact structure in central Quebec, Canada, where a ring of water surrounds the central René-Levasseur Island.

See also

• Siljan Ring
• List of possible impact structures on Earth

References

1. "Ring may be giant 'impact crater'". BBC News. 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
2. G. Monegato; M. Massironi & E. Martellato (2010). "The Ring Structure of Wembo-Nyama (Eastern Kasai, R.D. Congo): A Possible Impact Crater in Central Africa" (PDF). Lunar and Planetary Science. XLI. Lunar and Planetary Institute.
3. The Full Catalogue of the Earth's Impact structures 2009-07-16 at the Wayback Machine. Siberian Center For Global Catastrophes. Department of Mathematical Problems of Geophysics, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics. Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences.
4. E. Martellato; G. Cremonese; M. Massironi; and G. Monegato (2010). Omeonga (Wembo-Nyama): Isale Hydrocode Simulations, Nördlingen Ries Crater Workshop

External links

03°28′0″S 24°24′0″E / 3.46667°S 24.40000°E / -3.46667; 24.40000

• Google Earth view of Omeonga and around