@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers picking through the contents of fossil clams from a Sarasota County quarry found dozens of tiny glass beads, likely the calling cards of an ancient meteorite. Analysis of the beads suggests they are microtektites, particles that form when the explosive impact of an extraterrestrial object sends molten […]
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WFS News: Fossil Oysters contain evidence of ancient meteorite
July 28th, 2019 
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4 Comments »Massive impact crater from a kilometer-wide iron meteorite discovered in Greenland
November 23rd, 2018 Riffin An international team lead by researchers from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen have discovered a 31-km wide meteorite impact crater buried beneath the ice-sheet in the northern Greenland. This is the first time that a crater of any size has been found under one of Earth’s […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: crater, denmark, impact, Iron, meteorite, Researchers, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Meteorite bombardment likely to have created the Earth’s oldest rocks
August 22nd, 2018 Riffin Scientists have found that 4.02-billion-year-old silica-rich felsic rocks from the Acasta River, Canada — the oldest rock formation known on Earth — probably formed at high temperatures and at a surprisingly shallow depth of the planet’s nascent crust. The high temperatures needed to melt the shallow crust were likely caused by a meteorite bombardment around […]
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