Earth’s Oldest Crater May Have Jumpstarted All Life
“On Earth, this early impact record has seemingly been lost, reflecting the destructive efficiency of erosion and subduction ...
Geologists Found the World’s Oldest Crater—and It Might Have Jumpstarted All Life on Earth
Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...
Earth’s Oldest Crater May Have Jumpstarted Life
Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian rock. Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite ...
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What a 3.5 billion-year-old meteor crater tells us about the Earth
Previously, the Vredefort Dome had been the only dated impact structure. The 2 billion-year-old crater can be found in South ...
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Earth’s oldest meteorite crater found in outback WA
The oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth (3.5 billion years old) has been discovered in Western Australia's Pilbara region ...
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Japan’s Antarctic Meteorite Collection earns global recognition as IUGS Geo-collection
The Antarctic Meteorite Collection at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Japan has been recognized as a ...
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Earth's Oldest Impact Crater is Discovered
The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified at a site in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia...
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Earth’s Oldest Meteorite Crater Dating Back 3.47 Billion Years Found in Australia’s outback
The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.
Earth's oldest impact crater was just found in Australia—exactly where geologists hoped it would be
We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest ...
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Discovery of world's oldest meteorite crater could rewrite history of Earth
Scientists have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could reshape understanding of the origins ...
Say goodbye to what we know about the oceans: science warns of an alteration that could change everything
Our planet is constantly changing. Millions of years ago, the impact of a large meteorite ended the lives of the dinosaurs, and ice ages, periods of rain, drought and evolution hav ...