31-km-wide crater in Greenland was created by meteor strike 58 million yrs ago: Study
The crater lies beneath Greenland's Hiawatha Glacier, covered by an ice sheet six tenths of a mile (1 km) deep.
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The crater lies beneath Greenland's Hiawatha Glacier, covered by an ice sheet six tenths of a mile (1 km) deep.
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An immense crater in northwestern Greenland, buried under a thick sheet of ice and first spotted in 2015, is muc...
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An immense crater in northwestern Greenland, buried under a thick sheet of ice and first spotted in 2015, is muc...
The age of the meteor impact crater, discovered seven years ago underneath kilometer-deep ice in Greenland, had long puzzled scientists.
History of Earth Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide asteroid crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The dating ends speculation that the asteroid impacted after the appearance of humans and opens up a new understanding of Earth’s evolution in the post-dinosaur era.