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 ...
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Earth’s Oldest Impact Crater Discovered in Australia
Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...
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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...
Rewriting Earth’s History: 3.5 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Crater Discovered in Australia
Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...
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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.
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Geologists Found the World’s Oldest Crater—and It Might Have Jumpstarted All Life on Earth
Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite impact, are evidence that something hit this region when Earth was young. Impact craters this old have the ...
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Earth's oldest impact crater was just found in Australia—exactly where geologists hoped it would be
Curiously enough, the crater was exactly where we had hoped it would be, and its discovery supports a theory about the birth of Earth's first continents. The very first rocks The oldest rocks on ...
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Unveiling Earth's Oldest Known Meteorite Crater
The Pilbara crater predates these structures by over a billion years, offering a rare glimpse into Earth's formative eons. The ramifications of the Pilbara crater's formation were profound.