Huge Impact Crater in Australia Breaks Record for World’s Oldest by Over a Billion Years

In Australia, scientists say that the previous record holder has found the world’s oldest impact crater, which has more than 1.25 billion years.

3.5 billion years in the Pilbara region of Western Australia in the western meteorite, the former record, which is a total of 2.2 billion years. So far, Pilbara krater is the oldest in the world, the explorers say, and have been able to find it thanks to a different rock formation. The team has the results published Today, Nature communication.

“This work provides an important part of the puzzle of the effect of the place and many other ancient craters that can be detected over time,” Tim Johnson is the author of a geologist and a university at Curtin University in Australia release.

The junctions that help the researchers help identify the crater are formed in an extremely environment caused by only one meteorite effect. The Space Rock has hit a territory known as the North Pole Dome in a northern pole dome in a north pole dome in a section of about 25 miles (40 kilometers) of the marble bar in Western Australia.

According to the release, the meteorite, which produces more than 62 miles (100 km) crater, hit more than 22,370 miles (36,000 kilometers per hour).

The cones, 3.47 billion years ago, the team wrote “unequivocal evidence” and wrote a team, stating that the age of the old Africa was “statistically inseparable”, shows that the effects of the effect spreading in a global scale.

“It can explain a lot of life to start the strikes and find more things at the same time, how to start the environment for germs for germs like hot water pools,” he said.

Indeed, some of the world The oldest evidence for life is found in the field of meteorite effect. Stromatolitis microcasts in hot, shallow waters, came in near the coast of Australian clock 3.5 billion years. Stromatolites offers a sign that the signs of life in Mars can look like. A group of researchers discovered last year The oldest is known Fossilized photosynthetic structures, which returned 1.75 billion years and found in Australia, were also found.

“This is the fact that the shell formation is also radically cleansed by Pilbara’s previous evidence – whose rocks are the oldest shells on earth plate tectonics More than 3 to 4 billion years ago, it can be active on earth when the effect of amazing meteorite.