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> impact was so strong that a 25-kilometer section of Earth’s crust was turned on end This makes it sound like there was a 25km tall piece of crust sticking up
by adrianmonk 8y ago
> impact was so strong that a 25-kilometer section of Earth’s crust was turned on end
This makes it sound like there was a 25km tall piece of crust sticking up into the air, at least for a moment. Is that really what happened or did I interpret "on end" wrong?
- Someone 8y agoI think you’re interpreting the “25km” part incorrectly. It could be a 25km long, x m wide stretch that’s turned to form a 25km long, x m high ‘wall’.
- adrianmonk 8y agoAt this point, I'm purely splitting hairs, but I would probably have said "turned on its side" or some other variation of "side" instead, because "end" means something different to me. But obviously what you're saying makes way more sense physically, so that has to be what it is.
- posterboy 8y ago> Is that really what happened No, that seems to be unlikely. But the impact may well have ejected soil into space, as far as I understand, and liquefied stone in its wake, whatever that means.