A Massive Impact Crater Has Been Detected Beneath Greenland’s Ice Sheet

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25 points·mr_tyzic··6 comments

Here's a link to the study for those who do not want to go to Gizmodo. http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/11/eaar8173

Also, an ongoing discussion of yesterday's article in Science: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458138

>Some of the minerals they analyzed exhibited the telltale characteristics of a catastrophic impact, such as shocked quartz grains and other impact-related grains, such as glass.

Forgive me for my poor terminology here as this isn't my area.

Considering they found the signs of the impact, and other impacts like the Chicxulub Crater have left similar debris / signs in soil samples.

Are we at the point now where we can take soil samples in an area and without finding a creator see that there was a large impact somewhere (near or far) around a specific time based on the soil date?

pelagic_sky's link to the study is useful, I'm not sure why their comment is dead: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/11/eaar8173

Shadowbanned with only 9 karma and only constructive comments so far, ouch. I vouched for their posts, but damn that's a harsh welcome to HN. @dang, maybe some spam-bot detector is a little too sensitive?

New accounts with short posts containing outside links are probably a red flag to spam heuristics.

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