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Ancient Cataclysm: Oldest Impact Crater on Earth Discovered
Researchers in Western Australia have found the remnants of a nearly 3.5-billion-year-old impact crater – making it the ...
3.5 billion-year-old crater created by meteorite impact found in Australia, scientists say
The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...
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Oldest Known Impact Crater Discovered in Australia
The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...
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'This is by far the oldest': Scientists discover 3.47 billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Australian outback
"Before our discovery, the oldest impact crater was 2.2 billion years old, so this is by far the oldest known crater ever found on Earth," study co-author Tim Johnson, a professor in the school of ...
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World’s Oldest Impact Crater Discovered, Toppling Previous Record By 1.3 Billion Years
“Before our discovery, the oldest impact crater was 2.2 billion years old, so this is by far the oldest known crater ever ...
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Nuclear explosion-level event gouged a 600ft-deep hole in China 20 million years ago
An impact crater that was made by an asteroid millions of years ago was discovered in a remote hillside of China this year. Scientists have since been studying the massive hole and have concluded ...
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Earth's oldest-known crater discovered in outback WA is 3.47 billion years old, study finds
The authors say findings could provide a new line of study into Earth's history and the early origins of life on the planet. What could be the world's oldest-known impact crater has been ...