Saturday, June 30, 2012

Oldest Crater

Courtesy of Artemis Sere we have more oldest things to share.  Come, join us in Greenland for a peek at the oldest meteorite crater extant:



This little item significantly predates that fashionable purse from the other day ...

It *is* interesting to me that the forces noted as having obliterated most of Earth's craters tend to be natural.  Erosion comes in for a lot of notice.  MAN'S behavior, oddly enough, isn't really listed as a factor - and is, I would have thought, the most powerful altering force of all.

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