OFF-ROAD RACING
WE DO IT IN THE DIRT!
WE DO IT IN THE DIRT!
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Welcome to the home of Koepel Club,
The Club was originally established by………….
in the Vredefort area where the club derives it’s name from the Vredefort Koepel or Dome.
The Vredefort crater is the largest verified impact crater on Earth. In 2005, the Vredefort Dome was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites for its geologic interest.
The asteroid that hit Vredefort is one of the largest to ever impact Earth, estimated to be over 10 km wide. The crater has a diameter of roughly 250 - 300 Km. This makes Vredefort the largest known impact structure on Earth. The age is estimated to be over 2 billion years, impacting during the Paleoproterozoic era. It is the second oldest known crater on the Earth, a little less than three hundred million years younger than the Suavjärvi crater in Russia.
It was originally thought that the dome in the center of the crater was formed by a volcanic explosion, but in the mid 1990s evidence revealed that it was the site of a huge bolide impact, with telltale shatter cones often discovered in the bed of the nearby Vaal River.