Professor Johnson, from Curtin University, said the team of experts looked at so-called ‘shatter cones’, which were formed when the space rock hit the Earth at over 22,000 miles per hour. Looking at ...

Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian rock. Shatter cones, ...

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 ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

Johnson and his colleagues identified the crater thanks to cone-shaped chunks of rock known as "shatter cones," which form when the shock waves from a meteorite impact propagate downward. The extreme ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

After just an hour on site, they came across rock structures called "shatter cones" - proving them right. Johnson said: "They're these beautiful, delicate little structures that look a little bit ...

"Exceptionally preserved" shatter cones – that is, cone-shaped fractures found in rocks that have been subjected to extreme pressure from a shock wave – were located near the impact site ...

"Identifying [these] shatter cones was a truly remarkable moment." The researchers returned to the region for more detailed fieldwork in May of last year, after which the Geological Survey of ...

Remarkably, when we returned to the vehicle, we all thought we'd found the same thing: shatter cones. Shatter cones are beautiful, delicate branching structures, not dissimilar to a badminton ...

But where to start? On the hunt for shatter cones in a typical Pilbara landscape with our trusted GSWA vehicles. Our first target was an unusual layer of rocks known as the Antarctic Creek Member ...