Shatter cones were everywhere, developed throughout most of the Antarctic Creek Member, which we traced for several hundred meters into the rolling hills of the Pilbara.

Shatter cones were everywhere, developed throughout most of the Antarctic Creek Member, which we traced for several hundred metres into the rolling hills of the Pilbara.

Johnson and his colleagues identified the crater thanks to cone-shaped chunks of rock known as "shatter cones," which form ...

Shatter cones are beautiful, delicate branching structures, not dissimilar to a badminton shuttlecock. They are the only feature of shock visible to the naked eye, and in nature can only form ...

Research by the Geological Survey of Western Australia dated the rock around the shatter cones as 3.47 billion years old. Tim Barrows, a scientist at the University of New South Wales, ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western Australia. It has been dated to about 3.5 billion years ago, at a time when these almost literally Earth ...

UNSW earth scientist Tim Barrows, who was not part of the study, said the presence of shatter cones was an unambiguous sign of an impact and an "exciting discovery".

"All of the area's shatter cones are distributed in a crescent-like pattern mainly to the south of the crater, another sign that the asteroid struck at a shallow angle," NASA explained.

If future fieldwork confirms that these cones are present throughout the 40- to 45-kilometer (25- to 28-mile) diameter of the North Pole Dome, this lines up with the 62-mile (100-km) crater size ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 billion-year-old, 43-mile-wide Yarrabubba crater.Researchers at Curtin University ...

Research by the Geological Survey of Western Australia dated the rock around the shatter cones as 3.47 billion years old. Tim Barrows, a scientist at the University of New South Wales, ...