Chris Kirkland

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A Meteorite Struck Scotland More Recently Than We Thought

2 months ago | sciencealert.com | Chris Kirkland

We've discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously thought. Our results are published today in the journal Geology. This impact now aligns with some of Earth's earliest known, land based, non-marine microbial fossils, and offers new insights into how meteorite strikes may have shaped our planet's environment and life.
One billion years ago, a meteorite struck Scotland and influenced life on Earth

2 months ago | phys.org | Chris Kirkland |Timmons Erickson |Tony Prave

We've discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously thought. Our results are published today in the journal Geology.
1 billion years ago, a meteorite struck Scotland and influenced life on Earth

2 months ago | theconversation.com | Chris Kirkland |Timmons Erickson |Tony Prave

We’ve discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously thought. Our results are published today in the journal Geology. This impact now aligns with some of Earth’s earliest known, land based, non-marine microbial fossils, and offers new insights into how meteorite strikes may have shaped our planet’s environment and life.
Earth’s oldest impact crater was just found in Australia

Mar 26, 2025 | themandarin.com.au | Tim Johnson |Chris Kirkland

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest known by more than a billion years. Our discovery is published in Nature Communications. Curiously enough, the crater was exactly where we had hoped it would be, and its discovery supports a theory about the birth of Earth’s first continents.
Scientists have have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Mar 25, 2025 | thehindu.com | Jonas Kaempf |Chris Kirkland |Tim Johnson

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest known by more than a billion years. Our discovery is published today in Nature Communications. Curiously enough, the crater was exactly where we had hoped it would be, and its discovery supports a theory about the birth of Earth’s first continents.
Il più antico cratere da impatto della Terra è stato trovato in Australia, esattamente dove i geologi speravano che si trovasse

Mar 12, 2025 | lescienze.it | Tim Johnson |Chris Kirkland |Jonas Kaempf

Menti che hanno cambiato il mondo In edicola con «Le Scienze» la nuova collana I Nobel della scienza, una serie di ritratti di geni le cui scoperte hanno fatto la storia Le geoscienze forensi In edicola a richiesta con il numero di «Le Scienze» di marzo il dodicesimo volume della collana mensile Scienza e crimine La scienza che ci unisce: MUSE e "Le Scienze" insieme Progetti in condivisione, spazi editoriali, incontri, eventi e iniziative. Una collaborazione, quella tra il MUSE e "Le...
World's oldest impact crater discovered in Australia

Mar 6, 2025 | newatlas.com | Michael Irving |Chris Kirkland

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater. Located in Western Australia, the crater has been dated to about 3.5 billion years ago, at a time when these almost literally Earth-shattering events should have been occurring regularly. The crater was discovered by geologists at Curtin University and the Geological Survey of Western Australia in the Pilbara region of northwestern Australia.
How Earth’s Ice Ages Set The Stage For Life & Growth

Feb 28, 2025 | bizzbuzz.news | Chris Kirkland

While natural forces have shaped the planet over millennia, humanity now holds the power to influence Earth’s future. Our actions today—especially in mitigating climate change—will determine the stability and sustainability of life on Earth for generations to comImagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from its star. From pole to equator, the sphere is covered in a thick crust of ice.
Destructive Forces of Ancient Glaciers May Have Given Complex Life a Boost

Feb 26, 2025 | sciencealert.com | Chris Kirkland

Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from its star. From pole to equator, the sphere is covered in a thick crust of ice. In orbit around the white planet is a single cratered moon. You are gazing on Earth in the Cryogenian period, 700 million years ago. This is about three times as long ago as the earliest dinosaurs roamed – but still not long in the scheme of Earth's mind-bending 4.5 billion years of history.
Giant glaciers pulverized Earth's ancient rocks, setting the stage for complex life

Feb 26, 2025 | phys.org | Chris Kirkland

Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from its star. From pole to equator, the sphere is covered in a thick crust of ice. In orbit around the white planet is a single cratered moon.