60-million-year-old meteor strike uncovered on remote Isle of Skye
A thin piece of ejecta transferred on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, 60 million years earlier.(SimonDrake) A remote island in Scotland bears traces of out-of- this-world minerals from a 60- million-year-old meteorite effect. A group of geologists from Birkbeck, University of London was analyzing volcanic rocks on the remote Isleof Skye in Scotland when they…
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