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 Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 10:42 am Post subject: Giant Crater Found: Tied to Worst Mass Extinction Ever |
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Giant Crater Found: Tied to Worst Mass Extinction Ever
Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
SPACE.com
Thu Jun 1, 8:00 PM ET
An apparent crater as big as Ohio has been found in Antarctica. Scientists think it was carved by a space rock that caused the greatest mass extinction on Earth, 250 million years ago.
The crater, buried beneath a half-mile of ice and discovered by some serious airborne and satellite sleuthing, is more than twice as big as the one involved in the demise of the dinosaurs.
The crater's location, in the Wilkes Land region of East Antarctica, south of Australia, suggests it might have instigated the breakup of the so-called Gondwana supercontinent, which pushed Australia northward, the researchers said.
"This Wilkes Land impact is much bigger than the impact that killed the dinosaurs, and probably would have caused catastrophic damage at the time," said Ralph von Frese, a professor of geological sciences at Ohio State University.
How they found it ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060602/sc_space/giantcraterfoundtiedtoworstmassextinctionever ( etc ... ) |
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