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Scientists Have Just Discovered a 2,950-Foot Crater Hidden in China, The Largest of Its Kind on Earth

TheJinlin crater, an enormous 900 meters across, is the largest known impact site from the Holocene, Earth’s current geological epoch. Remarkably well-preserved and hidden deep within weathered ...
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Geologists Reveal Earth-shattering Evidence of Extraterrestrial Impact in North Carolina

Geologists in North Carolina’s Sandhills have uncovered direct evidence of a late Eocene meteorite impact and tsunami, linked to the Chesapeake Bay impact structure. Led by G. Robert Ganis, this ...
NOLA.com

It's a mile wide, and a road runs through it. Do drivers know they're cutting through a crater?

Paul Heinrich, retired associate researcher with the Louisiana Geological Survey at LSU, discovered citronelle formations in the fractures in the clayey, or clay-like, sands exposed in the ditch ...
Forbes

Study Concludes There Is An Impact Crater Buried In The North Sea

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The Silverpit Crater is situated in the Silverpit Basin in the ...
Astronomy

Researchers discover Earth’s largest modern impact crater

Researchers from China have identified a newly discovered impact crater, named Jinlin crater, located in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, with findings published in *Matter and Radiation at Extremes*.