Alamo bolide impact
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alamo-bolide-impact-185-4607796
title:
Alamo bolide impact
text:
The Alamo bolide impact occurred 377–378 million years ago, when one or more hypervelocity objects from space slammed into shallow marine waters at a site that is now the Devonian Guilmette Formation of the Worthington Mountains and Schell Creek Range of southeastern Nevada; the event is named for breccias of metamorphosed crushed rock deposits, found near the town of Alamo, Nevada. This catastrophic impact event resulted in what is one of the best-exposed and has become the most accurately date
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encyclopedia
description:
Prehistoric impact event at a site now within the U.S. state of Nevada
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_bolide_impact
date created:
2005-10-29T04:53:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T17:50:38Z
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{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/AlamoBrecciaView.jpg","width":2000,"height":1500}
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13
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