Scientists have confirmed that a large crater in China’s southern Guangdong province formed as a result of an asteroid impact around 10,000 years ago, at a time when human civilisation was undergoing rapid development. The Jinlin crater, located near the city of Zhaoqing, is just the fifth confirmed impact crater in China and the first one to be identified in the country’s southern region. Through analysis of the tilted bowl-shaped crater on a hillside with a diameter of about 900 metres (2,952…
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