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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘Iron’
Massive impact crater from a kilometer-wide iron meteorite discovered in Greenland
November 23rd, 2018 Riffin
The Earth’s youngest banded iron formation discovered.
July 24th, 2018 Riffin
The discovery of Earth’s youngest-ever banded iron formation is changing how scientists understand the evolution of complex life.
Iron in Earth’s Core Weakens Before Melting
October 16th, 2013 Riffin
The iron in the Earth’s inner core weakens dramatically before it melts, explaining the unusual properties that exist in the moon-sized solid centre of our planet that have, up until now, been difficult to understand. Scientists use seismic waves — pulses of energy generated during earthquakes — to measure what is happening in the Earth’s […]