Analysis of tiny zircon crystals buried within the 10-mile-wide Ames crater in northwest Oklahoma suggests that the submerged ...

A meteor crater buried beneath Oklahoma has turned out to be nearly 100 million years younger than scientists thought. Zircon crystals show the Ames impact occurred about 370 million years ago, ...

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New uranium-lead dating of zircons from Oklahoma’s buried Ames impact structure points to a Late Devonian age near 370 ...

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An ancient crater beneath Ames, Oklahoma, is now believed to be nearly 100 million years younger than previously thought, potentially linking it to a major mass extinction event.

According to a recently published study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, researchers dated zircon crystals from the site and found that the Ames crater likely formed about 370 ...

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have traced the Ames meteor impact to approximately 370 million years ago, ...

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Zircon crystals reveal that a meteor struck Oklahoma nearly 100 million years later than believed, around the time of a major mass extinction.