Art by me depicting a scene of the Late Triassic of Nova Scotia. A Hypsognathus (parareptile, left) and a Jupijkam (phytosaur, right) are startled by the Manicouagan impact happening far to the north. The scene of the impact parts the clouds and rises far above the tree line like an explosion no human has ever seen in their lifetimes. An explosion so large its scars can still be seen from space today.
Map location of Lac Manicouagan. By Carport - Own work, usingFile:Canada Quebec location map.svg by NordNordWest.STRM-30 data for the relief, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23145609
Lac Manicouagan in Quebec, Canada is the impact crater of one of the largest impacts of earths history, the sixth-largest to be exact. Known as the eye of Quebec, the Manicouagan reservoir was created near the end of the Triassic period when a 5km (3 mile) wide asteroid smashed into the earths crust