Saturday, November 17, 2018

Massive impact crater from a kilometer-wide iron meteorite discovered in Greenland


  • An international team has discovered a 31-km wide meteorite impact crater buried beneath the ice-sheet in the northern Greenland. 
  • This is the first time that a crater of any size has been found under one of Earth's continental ice sheets.
  • Researchers from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen have discovered this.
  • The researchers worked for last three years to verify their discovery, initially made in the 2015. 
  • The research is described in a new study just published in the internationally recognized journal SCIENCE ADVANCES.
SOURCE : science daily

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