"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7795381.stm (OK, it was a little while back :) )"
More details can be found at: Microscopic meteorites show early life on Earth faced rain of rocks Media Releases, Office of External Affairs, University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mediareleases/release.php?id=1643 "Microscopic meteorites found in Scotland have unveiled major clues about a catastrophic event which dramatically altered the Earth’s surface nearly 500 million years ago." The paper discussed in the above articles is: Parnall, J., 2009, Global mass wasting at continental margins during Ordovician high meteorite influx. Nature Geoscience. vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 57 - 61, Published online: 14 December 2008 | doi:10.1038/ngeo386 http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v2/n1/abs/ngeo386.html http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v2/n1/index.html Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
