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Asteroid Eltania's Oceanic Impact Revealed by Study
A multinational team reports in Nature that asteroid Eltania struck the Bellingshausen Sea 2.15 million years ago, blasting 100 billion tons of TNT, creating a 3 mile water column and mega tsunamis that reshaped climate signals and marine fossils across the globe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antarctica
Bellingshausen
Nature
Eltania
South America
Pacific Rim
Rainer Gersonde
Alfred Wegener Institute For Polar and Marine Research
Bremerhaven
Germany
Associated Press
Karsten Gohl
Macquarie University
Sydney
Polarstern
Australia
Gersonde
Peter Barrett
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
David Harwood
University of Nebraska
Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Arizona
Jan Smits
Research School of Sedimentary
Amsterdam
Vrije University
Frank Kyte
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
UCLA
Department of Geology
University of Salamanca
Pain
School of Earth Sciences
U.S. Naval Research Lab
Washington
U.S