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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Earth's oldest crater yields new secrets


Geologists are still making discoveries in South Africa's Vredefort impact crater, the biggest on Earth.

In the abraded heart of South Africa's Vredefort impact crater lurk striking green-black rocks, some of the only remnants of a magma sea that once filled the gaping crater. (Image: NASA)
Geologists say they've discovered rocks long thought vanished, the youngest remains of the oldest and biggest impact crater on Earth.