Earth’s oldest impact crater was just found in Australia – exactly where geologists hoped it would be

Sun, 9 Mar 2025 03:32:09 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/earths-oldest-impact-crater-was-just-found-in-australia-exactly-where-geologists-hoped-it-would-be-250921>

"We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very
heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than
3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest known by more than a billion years.
Our discovery is published today in Nature Communications.

Curiously enough, the crater was exactly where we had hoped it would be, and
its discovery supports a theory about the birth of Earth’s first continents."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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