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Scientists find proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea over 43 million years ago
A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved.
A team led by Dr Uisdean Nicholson from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), used seismic imaging, microscopic analysis of rock cuttings and numerical models to provide the strongest evidence yet that Silverpit is one of Earth’s rare impact craters. Dr Uisdean Nicholson, a sedimentologist in Heriot-Watt University’s School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, said: “New seismic imaging has given us an unprecedented look at the crater. Professor Gareth Collins from Imperial College London was at the Silverpit Crater debate in 2009 and also provided the numerical models for the new study.
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