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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 following structures are officially considered "unconfirmed" because they are not listed in the Earth Impact Database. Due to stringent requirements regarding evidence and peer-reviewed publication, newly discovered craters or those with difficulty collecting evidence generally are known for some time before becoming listed.
The huge Yarrabubba crater in Western Australia has been dated to 2.229bn years ago in a geological study. Oldest impact crater on Earth could throw light on ancient climate change Skip to main ...
It also features in the Stan Australia streaming service original television series with the same name. It was the setting for Arthur Upfield 's 1962 novel The Will of the Tribe . The Wolfe Creek crater has considerable claim to be the second most 'obvious' (i.e. relatively undeformed by erosion) meteorite crater known on Earth, after the ...
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The Murchison Province contains the Yarrabubba crater, which is the oldest dated meteorite impact crater, at 2229 ± 5 Ma. The crater is heavily eroded and no surface expression remains of the original structure.
This result establishes Yarrabubba as the oldest recognised meteorite impact structure on Earth, extending the terrestrial cratering record back >200 million years. The age of Yarrabubba coincides, within uncertainty, with temporal constraint for the youngest Palaeoproterozoic glacial deposits, the Rietfontein diamictite in South Africa.