The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is different, however. It is well preserved (not deeply eroded or buried under sediments) ...

Two of Arizona's most famous landmarks may be linked by cosmic violence: the asteroid that gouged out Meteor Crater may have ...

Research Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka by a team from the ...

Learn more about the Meteor Crater near the Grand Canyon and how it may have created a paleolake thousands of years ago.

A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up. A meteorite impact ...

New research links the impact at Meteor Crater to a Grand Canyon landslide that may have created an ancient lake 56,000 years ...

Geology is full of detective stories about Earth’s history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico ...

The article, titled "Grand Canyon landslide‐dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka," highlights the striking coincidence in the geologic ages of a meteor impact and a ...

The study dives into questions surrounding how and when driftwood in Stanton’s Cave in the Grand Canyon got there ...

Impact That Made Meteor Crater May Have Triggered Giant Grand Canyon Landslide Arizona’s two great tourist attractions have been linked at last.

A remarkable coincidence occurred 56,000 years ago, when the impact that created Meteor Crater triggered both a landslide-dammed lake and a paleolake formation in the Grand Canyon. Earth’s ancient ...

A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and reshaped the Colorado River that runs through the national park.