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Meteor Crater
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Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, is an impact crater about 37 mi east of Flagstaff and 18 mi west of Winslow in the desert of northern Arizona, United States. The site had several earlier names, an
Meteor Crater
Meteor Crater
The Holsinger fragment, at roughly 2.6 ft (0.8 m) across, is the largest discovered piece of the meteorite that created Meteor Crater, and it is exhib
The Holsinger fragment, at roughly 2.6 ft (0.8 m) across, is the largest discovered piece of the meteorite that created Meteor Crater, and it is exhibited in the crater visitor center.
Looking into the crater from the north rim: The rust-colored area on the far (south) rim is where the last drilling for the meteorite occurred, in 192
Looking into the crater from the north rim: The rust-colored area on the far (south) rim is where the last drilling for the meteorite occurred, in 1929. This is where Daniel M. Barringer believed the bulk of the meteorite was buried. Rock around the south rim is visibly uplifted.
Fragment of the Canyon Diablo meteorite
Fragment of the Canyon Diablo meteorite
Ground sloth
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Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra. They varied widely in size; the largest belonged to the genera Lestodon, Eremotherium and Megatherium, and we
Meteor Crater
…the local climate on the Colorado Plateau was much cooler and damper. The area was an open grassland dotted with woodlands inhabited by mammoths and giant ground sloths. The object that excavated the crater was a nickel-iron meteorite about 160 ft (50 m) across. The speed of the impact has been a subject of some debate…
Ground sloths
Ground sloths
Fossil Eremotherium skeleton, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
Fossil Eremotherium skeleton, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
Paramylodon harlani, Texas Memorial Museum, University of Texas at Austin
Paramylodon harlani, Texas Memorial Museum, University of Texas at Austin
A Tamandua anteater in an upright defensive stance similar to those presumed to have been adopted by ground sloths, per trackways preserved in New Mex
A Tamandua anteater in an upright defensive stance similar to those presumed to have been adopted by ground sloths, per trackways preserved in New Mexico