According to their results, the crater was created over 3.5 billion years ago when a meteorite crashed into what is now a region of Western Australia. This was an incredible and exciting find at the ...

Research Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka by a team from the ...

Researchers in Australia found the crater in Western Australia's Pilbara region and believe it's the oldest impact crater in the world, at about 3.5 billion years old.

New research links the impact at Meteor Crater to a Grand Canyon landslide that may have created an ancient lake 56,000 years ...

A new study suggests ancient wood floated into a cave far above the Colorado River when a meteorite-induced earthquake ...

An impact crater, believed to be associated with the “Great Dying,” the largest extinction event in the history of life on Earth — much earlier than the extinction of the dinosaurs ...

A remarkable coincidence occurred 56,000 years ago, when the impact that created Meteor Crater triggered both a ...

The researchers were fascinated by a landslide that formed a paleolake and an asteroid impact that carved a massive crater, ...

Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico ...

Home > Science Evidence of Oldest-Known Meteorite Impact Discovered in Australia The impact crater would be long gone, but scientists found bits of ejecta from the event some 3.48 billion years ago.

The second-oldest impact crater, estimated to have been created about 2.2 billion years ago, is also located in Western Australia, southwest of Pilbara, in Yarrabubba.

The presence of driftwood and lake sediments has long been known in Stanton's Cave in Marble Canyon of eastern Grand Canyon. The mouth of the cave is 150 feet above the river, so geologists wondered ...