Nearby rivers make a peculiar sharp bend as they are diverted toward the sunken crater. This summer, researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey havedrilled holes in and around the Chesapeake Bay ...

Here’s how it works. Today, that 25-mile-wide (40 kilometers) crater is buried half a mile below the rocky basement of Chesapeake Bay — the 200-mile-long (320 km) estuary linking Virginia and ...

Figure 1: Map showing locations of Chesapeake Bay crater and coreholes. Figure 2: Chloride and isotope results from the deep ICDP-USGS corehole. Figure 3: Helium-based age estimates for the deep ...

Beneath the waters of Chesapeake Bay lies a massive secret that took decades to uncover. What once seemed like a normal stretch of water has been revealed as the site of a colossal impact crater ...

H idden beneath the East Coast of the United States lies the Chesapeake Bay impact crater, a colossal structure formed 35 million years ago when a massive asteroid struck the region.Spanning 25 ...

CAPE CHARLES, Va. (AP) -- Researchers from around the world have come to the Eastern Shore to study a gigantic crater that might explain the origin of the Chesapeake Bay.

But they are part of what covers the largest impact crater in the United States ... carved out geological rifts that created the Chesapeake Bay. What remains of the meteor, which was a mile ...

Buried under seafloor muds, Chesapeake Bay Crater offshore of Virginia is an estimated 35 million years old. The curving western shoreline of Chesapeake Bay takes its shape from the 53-mile-wide ...

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 ...

When scientists drilled deep into the center of a huge crater beneath the Chesapeake Bay, they discovered ancient seawater that had been locked up in sediments since the early Cretaceous Period.

The true impact of an asteroid or comet crashing near the Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago has ... in the aftermath of disaster. The impact crater, which is buried under 400 to 1,200 feet ...