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Barringer to Vredefort: 7 oldest meteor impact craters on Earth
this 66-million-year-old crater is over 180 kilometers in diameter. Visitors can explore the surrounding cenotes Dating back ...
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The steady hail of meteors pummeling the Moon
It was the biggest space rock to hit Earth since 1908. Radius, in miles, of the Vredefort crater, the largest known sign of impact on Earth. The crater — in Free State, South Africa — was ...
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The world's oldest asteroid struck Earth 2.2 billion years ago triggering one of the first global warming episodes in history
Till now, the oldest asteroid impact on Earth was the Vredefort Dome in South Africa. However, researchers at Curtin University have found that new asteroid impact crater in Australia dates back ...
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Earth's oldest asteroid impact 'may have ended ice age'
The crater was discovered in the dry outback in ... million years older than the next most ancient impact structure - the Vredefort Dome in South Africa. "We were interested in the area because ...
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Bóveda de Vredefort
and Vredefort is the only example to provide a full geological profile of an astrobleme below the crater floor. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Le dôme de Vredefort, à environ ...