All Articles Tagged As: impact craters

Extinction by asteroid a rarity (10/8/2008)

Evidence suggests that 'sick Earth' extinctions more likely ...> Full Article

65-million-year-old asteroid impact triggered a global hail of carbon beads (5/6/2008)

The asteroid presumed to have wiped out the dinosaurs struck the Earth with such force that carbon deep in the Earth's crust liquefied, rocketed skyward, and formed tiny airborne beads that blanketed the planet ...> Full Article

Geologists Discover New Way of Estimating Size and Frequency of Meteorite Impacts (4/13/2008)

Meteorite linked to mass extinction 65 million years ago was four to six kilometers in diameter ...> Full Article

Britain's biggest meteorite impact found (3/28/2008)

Evidence of the biggest meteorite ever to hit the British Isles has been found by scientists ...> Full Article