Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A landslide in Norway around 800 B.C. likely covered a cult site that archaeologists have finally uncovered 2,800 years later. An excavation working ahead of a highway expansion project found clues to past human activity under the landslide. Key finds included longhouses, a burial mound, and carved stones likely associated with …
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A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and reshaped the Colorado River that runs through the national park. Geologists studying driftwood and lake sediments found in Stanton’s Cave — in Marble Canyon, which lies in the eastern part of the Grand Canyon — revealed a possible connection between the area and …
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The ancient meteor impact that formed Arizona’s Barringer Crater sent shock waves through the Grand Canyon — likely triggering a landslide that dammed the Colorado River, a new study suggests. Barringer Crater, also called Meteor Crater, formed between 53,000 and 63,000 years ago, when a giant cosmic “curveball” punched a hole in Earth’s surface. The force of the impact traveled …
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When an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater. According to new research, the earthquake that the collision caused induced a landslide, which caused water to back up to the height of a 20-storey building above the current river. Meteor Crater, also known as Barringer Crater after the family …
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