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Oops! The “World’s Oldest Meteorite Impact Crater” Isn’t an Impact Crater After All – SciTechDaily

Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the planet, another team found it’s actually the result of normal…

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Archean Maniitsoq structure in Greenland. Credit: University of Waterloo
Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the planet, another team found it’s actually the result of normal geological processes.
During fieldwork at the Archean Maniitsoq structure in Greenland, an international team of scientists led by the University of Waterloo’s Chris Yakymchuk found the features of this region are inconsistent with an impact crater. In 2012, a…

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