Crater row

John VanDecar

Nature, 1998, vol. 392, issue 6672, 131-131

Abstract: Chains of craters are thought to be produced when large bodies approaching a planet break up, the fragments then hitting the planet in sequence to produce the chain. The impacts of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter provided a dramatic example of the way this might occur. Finding traces of such chains on Earth is complicated by the movement of tectonic plates, which over geological time will pull craters out of alignment. But by reconfiguring the Earth's surface to its appearance about 214 million years ago, a crater chain spread over more than 4,000 km has now been identified.

Date: 1998
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