[7] Rai Bahadur Kishan Singh Rawat (1850–1921), a colonial era Indian explorer and cartographer, was first to map it on a small scale (1 : 63,360).

[9][10] Other studies include by those of Arthur Lennox Coulson (1927–28), Sharma and Singh and Jaganathan and Rao (1969–70), Crawford (1972),[11] Rakshit (1973), Ramaswamy (1981), Vimal Kumar Reddy(1984) etc.

In January 2018 Professor Vinod Agrawal and Geologists Pushpendra Singh Ranawat and Mr. Jitendra Kumar Sharma (convenor INTACH Baran chapter), members of team composed of GSI, INTACH and Mohanlal Sukhadia University, which visited the crater to collect samples for the scientific study of the genesis of the crater, said the several types of evidence at crater meets the established criteria for the meteorite impact and that is a very rare site in India of multi-faceted significance including geological heritage.

[2] Team stated that the ample research on the site has been conducted to gather geochemical and other evidence published in peer-reviewed journals, hence once the evidence is accepted by the national and global approving entities in India and Canada respectively the crater will be likely recognised as 191st impact crater in the world and 3rd in India by 2020 by the Earth Impact Database.

Located in Vindhya Range it is part of Bhander Group of Vindhyan Supergroup it has a raised rim and a circular depression in its centre forming a plain with average elevation of 260 m above sea level.