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Joseph V. Smith
English geologist
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study of meteorite craters on Earth
- In geologic history of Earth: The pregeologic period
According to the English-born geologist Joseph V. Smith, a minimum of 500 to 1,000 impact basins were formed on Earth within a period of about 100 to 200 million years prior to 3.95 billion years ago. Moreover, plausible calculations suggest that this estimate represents merely the tail end of an…
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