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The Yarrabubba impact structure is the eroded remnant of an impact crater, situated in the northern Yilgarn Craton near Yarrabubba Station between the towns of Sandstone and Meekatharra, Mid West Western Australia. [2] [3] With an age of 2.229 billion years, it is the oldest known impact structure on Earth. [1]
Yarrabubba shares a boundary with Cogla Downs Station. [1] The Yarrabubba impact structure, which takes its name from the property, is found on the margins of the station. [2] The property was advertised for sale in 1906. At this time it occupied an area of 294,000 acres (118,978 ha) and was stocked with 100 head of cattle.
The Yilgarn Craton is a large craton that constitutes a major part of the Western Australian land mass. It is bounded by a mixture of sedimentary basins and Proterozoic fold and thrust belts . Zircon grains in the Jack Hills , Narryer terrane have been dated at ~4.27 Ga , with one detrital zircon dated as old as 4.4 Ga. [ 1 ]
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Researchers have determined that the 45-mile-wide (70-km-wide) Yarrabubba crater in Australia formed when an asteroid struck Earth just over 2.2 billion years ago.
Chippewa Boots Originally named as the Chippewa Shoe Manufacturing Company; Crazy Horse [1] (Liz Claiborne clothing line) Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company; Mohawk Airlines; Mohawk Gasoline; Niagara-Mohawk Power Company, now part of National Grid USA; Sioux Chief Manufacturing; Fishawack Health
The problem of undercounting resonates in the Indian state of Gujarat, the site of a mammoth debacle that was supposed to transform the World Bank’s approach to development and displacement. In 1985, the bank pledged $450 million to finance the Sardar Sarovar dam and canal, the keystone of an effort to turn the Narmada River into a series of ...
Piccaninny crater is an impact structure, the eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in northern Western Australia in the Kimberley region. It was named after Piccaninny Creek and lies within the Purnululu (Bungle Bungle) National Park .