Massive meteorite impact created the hottest mantle rock ever - Livescience.com


4/18/2022 12:00:00 AM3 yearsago
by Stephanie Pappas

The meteorite sizzled rocks some 36 million years ago.

It's confirmed: The hottest rock ever discovered in Earth's crust really was super-hot.  The rock, a fist-sized piece of black glass, was discovered in 2011 and first reported in 2017, when scientis… [+3366 chars]

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