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 ...

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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, ...

Picture: Tswaing Meteorite Crater By AGISANANG SCUFF 10 October 2026 – According to ditsong.org.za, some 220 000 years ago a ...

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

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

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.

The impact crater was formed in 2024 when an object the size of a multistory building crashed into our lunar companion. The resulting divot is about 728 feet wide and 141 feet deep ...

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 ...