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 ...

The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...

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

Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian rock. Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite ...

The ancient crater’s discovery in the Pilbara suggests meteorite impacts may have kickstarted Earth's first continents, and ...

The discovery of a 3.47-billion-year-old crater in WA's Pilbara region pushes back the age of the earliest-known impact site on Earth by more than one billion years.

‘Shatter cones’ at the North Pole Dome in the centre of the Pilbara region, Australia. (Picture: Curtin University) Scientists believe a newly-discovered crater believed to be the oldest in ...

Shatter cones formed by the impact in the Pilbara. Image credit: Tim Johnson Many geologists think these ancient rocks formed above hot plumes that rose from above Earth’s molten metallic core, rather ...

Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite impact, are evidence that something hit this region when Earth was young. Impact craters this old have the ...

But where to start? On the hunt for shatter cones in a typical Pilbara landscape with our trusted GSWA vehicles. Chris Kirkland A serendipitous beginning Our first target was an unusual layer of ...