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New research links the impact at Meteor Crater to a Grand Canyon landslide that may have created an ancient lake 56,000 years ...
A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up. A meteorite impact ...
A new study suggests ancient wood floated into a cave far above the Colorado River when a meteorite-induced earthquake ...
The resulting Nankoweap landslide would have dumped enormous limestone boulders into the river corridor, creating a temporary ...
The Grand Canyon, one of the most iconic geological formations on Earth, may hold deeper secrets about our planet’s history ...
The night before my sons and I visited Meteor Crater in Arizona, we camped at a nearby park in the high desert of the Colorado Plateau. After dinner, while the kids played in the tent, I read an ...
The Barringer meteorite crater — known popularly as "Meteor Crater" — near Winslow, Ariz., was formed some 50,000 years ago in the flat-lying sedimentary rocks of the Southern Colorado Plateau ...
The draw: Meteor Crater, a pit as round as any moon crater, is more than 4,000 feet across and deep enough to swallow a 60-story building. There’s a tiny museum with a gift shop but no resort ...
The world-famous Meteor Crater and Barringer Space Museum in Arizona is a stunning natural wonder, with a wealth of interesting stops along the way.
The world-famous Meteor Crater and Barringer Space Museum in Arizona is a stunning natural wonder, with a wealth of interesting stops along the way.
Researchers have found a link between two geological events in iconic locations of the U.S. Southwest that scientists ...
W hen an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater.