The rings of the Aïr Mountains in Niger could be the result of impacts by fragments of a comet that disintegrated entering the Earth's atmosphere and triggered the Cryogenian Period known as Snowball Earth.
Some scientists attribute the formation of the Carolina Bays to wind and water mechanisms, but there is no evidence that wind can create elliptical structures like the bays.
Meteor Crater, also known as Barringer Crater, is a meteorite impact crater located near Flagstaff, Arizona. It is the most thoroughly investigated and one of the least eroded impact craters in the world.
This presentation compares the stress on society of the COVID-19 corona virus to the cataclysm of a comet impact at the onset of the Younger Dryas cooling event 12,900 years ago.
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The Carolina Bays and a variety of other interesting scientific topics