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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Geologists Found the World’s Oldest Crater—and It Might Have Jumpstarted All Life on Earth
Impact craters this old have the potential to tell us not only how Earth evolved but how the earliest impacts created the conditions for life to emerge. Long before the asteroid that ended the ...
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Marvels on Mars: 10 astounding topographical features of the red planet
Hellas Planitia: One of the largest impact ... Gale Crater: 3.8 billion-year-old impact crater Gale Crater is the name of a ...
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World's oldest meteorite impact crater found, rewriting Earth's ancient history
"A Paleoarchean impact crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia" is published in Nature Communications. The team from Curtin's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences investigated rock ...