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 ...

About 35 million years ago, Hampton Roads was underwater, with the coastline dozens of miles west toward Richmond. Dinosaurs were long gone, but the ocean teemed with marine creatures such as ancient ...

What happens when a rock from space that’s more than a mile wide slams into the Earth at supersonic speed? Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and its partners are learning as they ...

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 ...

The location of the crater in the Chesapeake Bay is now completely covered by younger sediments. It was discovered in the early 1990s by marine geophysical surveys and subsequent drilling. It is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 21 shocked and unshocked zircon crystals dated in this study were separated from this ~30 cubic centimeters of unconsolidated late Eocene sediment obtained from Ocean Drilling Project site 1073, ...

Solving the mystery A Map Shows The Outline Of The Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater (Photo courtesy U.S. Geological Survey) The asteroid, moving at about 44,000 miles per hour, was about 2 to 3 miles wide ...