Current Affairs Could the Czech basin have been created through meteoritic impact?

02-08-2007 15:52 | Jan Velinger

This week the Czech newsmagazine Tyden reported on a theory that the so-called Czech basin, or massif, which makes up most of Bohemia, may have been created by a meteorite hitting the area around 2 billion years ago. The impact of the celestial object hitting the Earth would have been comparable to the force of many combined nuclear blasts. Generally, the Czech basin is thought to have been formed through plate tectonics, but now some scientists are considering a different possibility..

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