Eugene Merle Shoemaker produced evidence for an impact

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Shoemaker found the impact mineral coesite here and showed that Meteor Crater was formed from a meteorite impact.

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Eugene Merle Shoemaker

Eugene Merle Shoemaker

Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997), also known as Gene Shoemaker, was an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science. He is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy.

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene Merle Shoemaker
Page 248 - Rudwick, M. J. S., 2014, The Earth's Deep History: How it was Discovered and why it Matters: Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago, 331p.

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