Simulation Shows What Happens To Rocks After A Meteor Impact

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Aerial view of Barringer Crater by Shane Torgerson, via Wikimedia Commons

Using a computer simulation, scientists from the University of Stanford in California have managed to visualize what happens to the Earth's crust after a meteorite impact. The findings, published in Nature Materials, were used to predict how minerals would mutate under the extreme conditions produced by such an event.