Researchers Baffled To Find World's Oldest Impact Crater, Redefines How Our Planet Was Shaped Land features reflect the ...

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

Our first target was an unusual layer of rocks known as the Antarctic Creek Member, which crops out on the flanks of a dome some 20 kilometres in diameter ... of the Timescales of Mineral Systems at ...

This discovery challenges our understanding of Earth’s early history and could shed light on the origins of life.

creating the North Pole Dome Site in the Pilbara region. The discovery, which was made by researchers from the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) and Curtin University's School of Earth ...

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‘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 ...

But where to start? Our first target was an unusual layer of rocks known as the Antarctic Creek Member, which crops out on the flanks of a dome some 20 kilometres in diameter. The Antarctic Creek ...

A Curtin University group has identified what may be Earth’s oldest meteorite strike in a remote part of Western Australia’s Pilbara region, near the North Pole Dome. Evidence in local rock ...

In May 2021, geologists identified “shatter cones” in the North Pole Dome area of Pilbara ... The research, led by Chris Kirkland of Curtin University, was published on 6 March in Nature ...

The crater, located near the Pilbara town of Marble Bar, is thought to have been created 3.47 billion years ago.