Sentences with phrase «meteor crater»

The city claims to be the only one in the U.S. that is entirely within, what is believed to be, an enormous meteor crater known as an astrobleme.

It was first discovered in a meteor crater a century ago.

You can scoop up bits of stishovite at the scene of meteorite impacts, such as a 50,000 - year - old meteor crater in Arizona that measures about 3 / 4 - mile across and about 570 feet deep.

Trying to guess what it could be, he and his colleagues ruled out a meteor crater, a volcano, and, as they joked, Dr. Evil's sub-ice lair.

meteor crater in Arizona is proof it happens not gods wrath

«But meteor crater was once thought to be a volcano, father and son geologist proved impact crate» yes, through science and reasoning.

Indeed, there are much more massive and impressive meteor craters scarring the Earth.

These observations may have a bearing on the coincidence of volcanic events with suspected meteor craters that were the subject of Matt Kaplan's recent article (5 June, p 38).

While Price is not expecting any time soon a mission to Mars to drill several hundred meters beneath the surface, methanogens (methane - generating Archaea) could just as easily be detected around meteor craters where rock has been thrown up from deep underground.

Not exact matches

Today you look at craters on the earth with no hesitation in the belief they are in fact, craters caused by meteors.

Karl Barth said that revelation is like a meteor, and religion is the crater it leaves in the earth.

From the origin of the universe (big bang), to the origin of the moon (big collision), to the origin of lunar craters (meteor strikes), to the demise of the dinosaurs (asteroid impact), to the numerous sudden downfalls of civilizations documented by Jared Diamond in his 2005 book Collapse, catastrophism is alive and well in mainstream science.

The eruption destroyed the top three thousand feet of the volcano, blasting it into the air in pieces, leaving behind only a large crater three miles wide and half a mile deep, as though the mountain had been struck by a meteor.

But the authors of this new piece think they've come up with the explanation, and that they've gone over this area and they've reconstructed a scenario in which it could have been the case that some sort of small meteor did come to ground and what may help make the determination here, is that they think they've identified what may be a crater after all.

The moon is a cold, dry orb whose surface is studded with craters and strewn with rocks and dust (called Figure Meteor Crater, Arizona, is a recent impact crater similar to those found on the Moon.

Figure Meteor Crater, Arizona, is a recent impact crater similar to those found on the Moon.

Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) is an ex Hollywood A-lister whose early 90s superhero trilogy both made and broke him, burning bright and cratering like the mysterious meteor that opens the film.

About 50,000 years ago, a 150 - foot meteor slammed into the Arizona desert at more than 26,000 mph, leaving a three - quarter - mile - wide crater deep enough to contain the Washington Monument.

One day (while Max is playing video games) a meteor hits, Mutant Mudds emerging from the impact crater.

Dusty Depot has been struck by a meteor and turned into Dusty Divot, a massive crater with a research base in the centre of it.

With four characters, one of them a completely new skin that could possibly be alien in origin, are standing over what appears to be a crater from the meteor that the community has been extremely curious about regarding where it will land and what it will destroy with Tilted Towers and Dusty Depot currently the two most likely targets for the meteor's destruction.

Rovner was poised on the rim of an enormous crater at Mitzpe Ramon — presumably one of the largest natural craters created from a fallen meteor — photographing the silhouettes of people walking against the fierce dust - laden winds.

Where is the severe ice age that should have followed the Dinosaur - killer meteor impacts at Chicxulub crater, Silverpit crater, and Boltysh crater about 65 million years ago?

Chesapeake Bay is the site of an ancient impact crater, caused by a comet or meteor.