Caithness International Science Festival – Hunting for an Impact Crater in Scotland
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When:
March 12, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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Where:
Online
Cost:
Free
In some of Scotland’s most ancient rocks on the north-west coast there is a strange layer formed from material blasted out of a giant meteorite crater more than a billion years ago. How do we know how it formed, what can we discover about this event, and where is the impact crater itself? Join Mike Simms, a geologist at the Ulster Museum in Belfast, on a journey to find the missing crater.
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