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Is It an Impact Crater?
There are certain diagnostic observations that have to be an impact crater. If you find minerals that are shocked, like quartz, that have multiple types of deformation attached to them, they record pressures not something that can happen in a ptotonic or volcanic environment. That's the kind of things you look and if you find those, it's proof positive it’s an impact crater,. What about the date? I mean, is there any chance shorn the er materials from this would tell you whether this hit he earth the same day as ticklope, a year later, ten thousand years later, because that presumably relates to the story you're talking about? Well, absolutely. You
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