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Impact That Made Meteor Crater May Have Triggered Giant Grand Canyon Landslide

Impact That Made Meteor Crater May Have Triggered Giant Grand Canyon Landslide

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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