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Impacts on Earth in the Late Triassic

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  • Dennis V. Kent

    (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University)

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Sprayet al.1 postulate that five widely dispersed terrestrial impact structures with very similar geological age estimates (about 214 million years ago, in the Late Triassic epoch) are evidence of a multiple impact event. Most notably, the three largest impact structures, Saint Martin in western Canada (∼40 km diameter), Manicouagan in eastern Canada (∼100 km diameter), and Rochechouart in France (∼25 km diameter), plot at virtually the same palaeolatitude in a continental reconstruction. Spray et al. suggest that this apparent crater chain was produced within hours as a series of coaxial projectiles collided in rapid succession with the rotating planet Earth, and drew analogies to the recent collision sequence of fragmented comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter.

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  • Dennis V. Kent, 1998. "Impacts on Earth in the Late Triassic," Nature, Nature, vol. 395(6698), pages 126-126, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:395:y:1998:i:6698:d:10.1038_25874
    DOI: 10.1038/25874
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