Analysis of tiny zircon crystals buried within the 10-mile-wide Ames crater in northwest Oklahoma suggests that the submerged structure dates back to 370 million years ago, during the Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction event.
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October 14, 2026 at 1:08 PM
One of America's biggest meteor craters is 100 million years younger than we thought — and coincided with a global extinction event
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