Analysis of tiny zircon crystals buried within the 10-mile-wide Ames crater in northwest Oklahoma suggests that the submerged ...

New uranium-lead dating of zircons from Oklahoma’s buried Ames impact structure points to a Late Devonian age near 370 million years, roughly 100 million years younger than its traditional Ordovician ...

A meteor crater buried beneath Oklahoma has turned out to be nearly 100 million years younger than scientists thought. Zircon crystals show the Ames impact occurred about 370 million years ago, ...

A geologist found an undiscovered meteorite crater in Western Australia on Google Earth in 2007. Later drilling confirmed its ...

Many things have made an impact on our planet over the years: Scientific discoveries, war, literature, movies ... but perhaps ...

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have traced the Ames meteor impact to approximately 370 million years ago, ...

Planning a camping trip on Google Maps turned into a deep-time discovery for an amateur astronomer in Quebec. While scouting locations in 2024, Joël Lapointe noticed what looked like an odd depression ...

An ancient crater beneath Ames, Oklahoma, is now believed to be nearly 100 million years younger than previously thought, potentially linking it to a major mass extinction event.

A 3-billion-year-old impact structure in Western Australia rewrites what scientists know about Earth’s earliest and most violent chapter. Deep in the ancient rock country of Western Australia, ...

According to a recently published study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, researchers dated zircon crystals from the site and found that the Ames crater likely formed about 370 ...

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Zircon crystals reveal that a meteor struck Oklahoma nearly 100 million years later than believed, around the time of a major mass extinction.