About 35 million years ago, Hampton Roads was underwater, with the coastline dozens of miles west toward Richmond. Dinosaurs were long gone, but the ocean teemed with marine creatures such as ancient ...
Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact struck with such force that it carved out a vast crater, later buried ...
The 21 shocked and unshocked zircon crystals dated in this study were separated from this ~30 cubic centimeters of unconsolidated late Eocene sediment obtained from Ocean Drilling Project site 1073, ...
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Geologists Reveal Earth-shattering Evidence of Extraterrestrial Impact in North Carolina
Geologists in North Carolina’s Sandhills have uncovered direct evidence of a late Eocene meteorite impact and tsunami, linked to the Chesapeake Bay impact structure. Led by G. Robert Ganis, this ...
CHESAPEAKE BAY CRATER : GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS OF A LATE EOCENE SUBMARINE IMPACT STRUCTURE C WYLIE POAG CHRISTIAN KOEBERL AND WOLF UWE REIMOLD EDS ...
Solving the mystery A Map Shows The Outline Of The Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater (Photo courtesy U.S. Geological Survey) The asteroid, moving at about 44,000 miles per hour, was about 2 to 3 miles wide ...
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