| 31. | The studies concluded that an ancient meteorite impact crater is present in the Precambrian bedrock below the surface.
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| 32. | Devon Island is a polar desert with a meteorite impact crater that has a geology very similar to Mars.
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| 33. | The earlier theories of the crater's origin being a meteorite impact, volcanic cinder, or limestone sinkhole are now discredited.
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| 34. | Sinoite crystallizes upon meteorite impact as grains smaller than 0.2 mm surrounded by Fe-Ni alloys and the mineral enstatite.
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| 35. | One suggestion is that the bay was formed in the aftershock of a meteorite impact in the Tasman Sea.
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| 36. | The dolerite is believed to have existed as much as 1 / 2 billion years before the meteorite impact.
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| 37. | Molten terrestrial material ejected from a meteorite impact crater can cool and solidify into an object known as a tektite.
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| 38. | To create a crater of that size by meteorite impact would have required a bolide brighter than the full Moon.
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| 39. | The meteorite impact occurred about 250, 000 years ago ( Pleistocene ) on what is now the flat Karoo landscape.
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| 40. | The same mechanism is theorized to be caused by very large meteorite impacts to the extent of causing mass extinctions.
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