Researchers in Western Australia have found the remnants of a nearly 3.5-billion-year-old impact crater – making it the ...
Johnson reports the crater can be seen today only in a 35-mile wide dome that marks exactly where the asteroid impacted.
Some, such as the Kaapvaal craton in southern Africa ... those pieces with the cratons’ enigmatic topography. “These Archean fragments are still controlling aspects of plate tectonics ...
Evidence for a long-lived active margin on the Archean Wyoming craton. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 112, 564-578. Chamberlain, K.R., Frost, C.D., and Frost, B.R. (2003) Early Archean to ...