Meteorite gouged huge Greenland crater 58 million years ago, study finds

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WASHINGTON - An immense crater in north-western Greenland, buried under a thick sheet of ice and first spotted in 2015, is much older than previously suspected - formed by a meteorite impact 58 million years ago, rather than 13,000 years ago as had been proposed. Scientists said on Wednesday (March 9) they used two different dating methods on sand and...

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