Massive 19-mile-wide crater in Greenland actually much older than we thought, study says - USA TODAY


3/11/2022 12:00:00 AM3 years 1 month ago
by Maria Jimenez Moya, USA TODAY

The crater, big enough to swallow Washington, D.C., was discovered in 2015 and thought to have formed 13,000 years ago. But it's actually much older.

The massive 19-mile-wide Hiawatha crater underneath the northwestern ice sheet in Greenland is millions of years older than previously thought, according to new research published Wednesday in the pe… [+2123 chars]

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