Sentences with phrase «of an impact crater off»

It took another decade of evidence gathering, including the documentation of an impact crater off the Yucatán Peninsula, for the impact theory to win acceptance, he notes.

Last year, her research team delivered the coup de grâce: evidence of an impact crater off the northwest coast of Australia, hidden beneath two miles of sediment on the ocean floor.

Not exact matches

«I don't believe the evidence of a crater off Madagascar, and the impetus is on Abbott to prove it,» says Jay Melosh, an impact expert at the University of Arizona and an outspoken critic of the theory.

In 1990, geologists found the crater from this disaster off the north coast of the Yucatan peninsula, validating the impact theory for most of the scientific world.

This month, from a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists will try to sink a diamond - tipped bit into the heart of Chicxulub crater — the buried remnant of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs and most other life on Earth.