Brown: Vast Patches of Glassy Rock in Chilean Desert Likely Created by Ancient Exploding Comet
November 03, 2021
November 03, 2021
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 3 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news release:
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Heat from a comet exploding just above the ground fused the sandy soil into patches of glass stretching 75 kilometers, a study led by Brown University researchers found.
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Around 12,000 years ago, something scorched a vast swath of the Atacama Desert in Chile with heat so intense that it turned the sandy soil into widespread slabs of silic . . .
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Heat from a comet exploding just above the ground fused the sandy soil into patches of glass stretching 75 kilometers, a study led by Brown University researchers found.
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Around 12,000 years ago, something scorched a vast swath of the Atacama Desert in Chile with heat so intense that it turned the sandy soil into widespread slabs of silic . . .