Studying largest impact crater in the US, buried for 35 million years

ScienceDaily
Aug 13, 2019, 4:05 pm542 ptsHot
About 35 million years ago, an asteroid hit the ocean off the East Coast of North America. Its impact formed a 25-mile diameter crater that now lies buried beneath the Chesapeake Bay. A team of researchers has obtained drilling samples from the Ocean Drilling Project site 1073 and dated them with the…

Read Article Share
Share Article
- email
- x.com
- facebook
- pocket
- reddit
- tumblr
- linkedin
- pinterest

Trending Today on EcoTopical

China’s 15th Five-Year Plan For Solar & Wind Is Huge 130

People Want Us To Not Cover Elon Musk’s Politics, But He’s Using His Wealth & Power From Tesla To Influence Elections 119

Tiny fossils crack a Cretaceous cold case: Ocean acidification triggered one of the ocean's most severe extinctions 117

Here are the right reasons to buy carbon removal credits 116

US Assists Morocco With Green Hydrogen Plan — Wait, What? 116

Hawaiʻi Corals May Have Time to Adapt to Future Heat Stress 110

Rivian (RIVN) Q2 2026 earnings: revenue up 27%, gross margins soaring 109

New Sierra Club Reports Finds Wisconsin’s Dirty Power Generation Uses 1.34 Trillion Gallons of Water Annually 106

About EcoTopical

Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator.

Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.