A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New ...
Scientists have, for the first time, pinned down exactly when microbes colonized a meteorite impact crater. The team shows ...
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North Sea Crater Proven as Ancient Asteroid Impact

Can a 3.2-kilometre-wide scar under the North Sea rewrite part of Britain’s geology? More than two decades of argument have ...
Forty-three million years ago, a 160-meter-diameter asteroid hit the area now occupied by the North Sea, releasing a 30-story ...