COLLEGE PARK — Scientists say sea level rise is occurring at a faster pace in the Chesapeake Bay region than the global average, and the dramatic formation of the bay itself is a significant reason ...

Following three months of around-the-clock work, the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater Deep Drilling Project successfully completed its operations, extracting more than a mile-long segment of rocks and ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact struck with such force that it carved out a vast crater, later buried ...

Beneath the serene Chesapeake Bay lies a hidden secret: a massive impact crater, nearly 53 miles wide, formed by a ...

Much of the crater is still underwater in the bay, which is why it took until recent decades for scientists to discover. The circular outline of the impact in Hampton Roads includes the bottom half of ...

People in Georgia’s Dodge and Bleckley counties have for years picked up small pieces of natural glass called “Georgiaites,” which were produced by an unknown asteroid or comet impact millions of ...

An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes Around 35 million years ago, a small asteroid ...

CHESAPEAKE BAY CRATER : GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS OF A LATE EOCENE SUBMARINE IMPACT STRUCTURE C WYLIE POAG CHRISTIAN KOEBERL AND WOLF UWE REIMOLD EDS ...