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To: ETL

I do have a tiny piece of the Barringer meteorite.


62 posted on 02/15/2016 6:38:34 PM PST by onedoug
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To: onedoug
I do have a tiny piece of the Barringer meteorite.

"The [Barringer] crater was created about 50,000 years ago during the Pleistocene epoch, when the local climate on the Colorado Plateau was much cooler and damper.[9][10]

The area was an open grassland dotted with woodlands inhabited by woolly mammoths and giant ground sloths.[11][12]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater

114 posted on 02/15/2016 6:55:18 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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