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To: SunkenCiv
I had to look it up. The crater is in Nevada, not Idaho. Wiki...

Alamo bolide impact

The Alamo bolide impact occurred 367 million years ago, when one or more hypervelocity objects from space slammed into shallow marine waters at a site that is now the Devonian Guilmette Formation of the Worthington Mountains and Schell Creek Range of southeastern Nevada; the event is named for breccias of metamorphosed crushed rock deposits, found as far as the town of Alamo, Nevada (the "Alamo Breccia"). This catastrophic impact event resulted in what is one of the best-exposed and has become the most accurately dated impact events; it occurred within the Frasnian age of the Devonian at about 367 Ma, a moment in time that was about 3.5 Ma prior to the Frasnian/Famennian extinction events, which it is unlikely to have affected.


4 posted on 01/30/2019 7:40:10 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; Moonman62
I'd never heard of it either, and the initial identification apparently was due to, or by, Luis Alvarez, one of the fathers of the impact model of mass extinction. I went looking for "bolide impact" to see if there were any news items, and boom, there it was.

8 posted on 01/30/2019 8:07:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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