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A not credible message to
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LARGEST CRATER IN THE GREAT SAHARA DISCOVERED (Boston, March 3, 2006) –
Researchers from Boston University have discovered the remnants of the
largest crater of the Great Sahara of North Africa, which may have been
formed by a meteorite impact tens of millions of years ago. Dr. Farouk El-Baz
made the discovery while studying satellite images of the Western Desert of
Egypt with his colleague, Dr. Eman Ghoneim, at BU's Center for Remote
Sensing. |
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First visits to clarify the origin of "Kebira"
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"We were now
in the crater area, looking at the western edge of the central uplift area of
the "crater". What we saw were uniform horizontal layers of sedimentary
rocks, undisturbed except by the processes of natural erosion. The jumbled,
chaotic rock formation that we would expect to see in the central uplift area
of a crater was not evident at all." |
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