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Based on his first investigation, Alderman gave a quite accurate estimate of the terrestrial age of the meteorites. “The author is, however, of the opinion that the fall took place a very long time ago and that the age of the craters must be reckoned in terms of thousands of years” (Alderman 1932). Evidence listed by Alderman includes the “complete oxidation and disintegration” of iron fragments, “generations of trees” which have lived and died in the craters and his “inquiries from aborigines” which produced no result on the origin of the craters (Alderman 1932).
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Buhl, S., McColl, D. (2015). DATING OF THE IMPACT AND TOTAL KNOWN WEIGHT. In: Henbury Craters and Meteorites. GeoGuide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03955-8_17
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