Shiva Basin | Shiva Crater

Shiva Basin | Shiva Crater

Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University presented his research of a meteorite more than 40 km wide and speeding 58,000 miles an hour towards the Earth, which had killed dinosaurs 65 million years ago, had crashed off India’s west coast. He put forward the study to the Geological Society of America in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday. According to the study the massive Shiva basin which is a submerged depression on west of India is the largest crater known on the planet with 40 km diameter. Work done by a research team of Indians and Americans, working with information released by the companies operating in the area, has provided the strongest evidence to date that this was the spot where the dinosaur-killer hit. Chatterjee rejected former arguments that dinosaurs were killed after a giant asteroid slammed into the planet near Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.