Shatter cones formed by the impact in the Pilbara. (Image: Tim Johnson) We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

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 ...

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Since the 1980s, geologists have discovered fan-shaped fractures in quartz-based rocks in the area —now known to be so-called "shatter cones"—that form when shock waves thunder through rock.

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 ...

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FDOT HAS PRETTY MUCH CLEARED THE SCENE HERE. THEY HAD THOSE CONES OUT THERE, SEVERAL LANES CLOSED. ACTUALLY, ALL OF I-4 WAS SHUT DOWN AT ONE POINT THIS MORNING WESTBOUND, BUT IT IS BACK OPEN.