And then there is the Howell Structure in Lincoln County. It is the least proven to be a meteorite crater, but many think it is. Courtesy of Tennessee Geological Surveys “When Geologists looked ...

"It is not a crater. There is no evidence," said University ... Daniel Britt, a geology professor at the University of Tennessee, said he will listen with interest to Dort's presentation.

There are several reasons for this. The first reason is that Earth’s surface is continuously changing because we live on a geologically active planet. Impact craters are relatively shallow ...

Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid crashed near present-day Johannesburg, carving out what is now the world’s largest known crater. The impact initially put a dent in Earth’s surface that ...