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SHIFTHEADS: A Google Maps Detour Found a 390-Million-Year Crater
Impact crater discovery isn't supposed to happen because someone was scouting a campsite, but that's the story here. Dr. Gordon Osinski, a planetary geology professor at Western University, hears from strangers with a weird shape on the map all the time, and almost none of them pan out.
This one did. Reaching it took a three hour drive and a float plane into a remote stretch of Quebec, and once it was confirmed, the age came back far older than anyone on the team guessed: roughly 390 million years.
That kind of confirmation is rare for a reason. Volcanoes are erupting somewhere on Earth right…
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