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Showing posts with label Geology - Cracks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geology - Cracks. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

THE SIBERIAN BATAGAIKA CRATER IS BELIEVED TO BE THE DOORWAY TO ANCIENT GEOLOGICAL WORLDS from 200,000 years ago - Locals hear strange noises

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By The Siberian Times

Locals hear 'booms from the underworld' in giant ravine but now scientists say it holds secrets of the planet's past.
  • Batagaika started to form in 1960s after a chunk of forest was cleared: the land sunk, and has continued to do so, evidently speeded by recent warmer temperatures melting the permafrost. Picture: Alexander Gabyshev
  • Many Yakutian people are said to be scared to approach the Batagaika Crater - also known as the  Batagaika Megaslump: believing in the upper, middle and under worlds, they see this as a doorway to the last of these. 
  • The fearsome noises are probably just the thuds of falling soil at a landmark that is a one kilometre-long  gash up to 100 metres (328 feet) deep in the Siberian taiga. 
  • Batagaika started to form in 1960s after a chunk of forest was cleared: the land sunk, and has continued to do so, evidently speeded by recent warmer temperatures melting the permafrost, so unbinding the layers on the surface and below. Major flooding in 2008 increased the size of the depression which grows at up to 15 metres per year.
 
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Monday, November 2, 2015

MYSTERIOUS GIANT CRACK IN THE EARTH SUDDENLY OPENS UP IN WYOMING - Its cause still uncertain - It could continue to grow

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The gigantic 'crack in the Earth' in Wyoming: Landslide in the Big Horn Mountains causes canyon-like gash - and it could get even bigger
Gaping: A gigantic opening was spotted in the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming this month. SNS Outfitter & Guides said 'Everyone here is calling it "the gash". It's a really incredible sight'
  • The opening is thought to be 750 yards long and about 50 yards wide
  • Experts believe it is a slow-moving landslide
  • Believed it could be caused by a spring underneath the area
  • Crack may get larger 'as long as there's room for it to move'
  • There have been several other cases of the Earth splitting open in massive gashes in recent years
  • Wyoming is home to the Devil's Tower (of perhaps volcanic origin), and the Yellowstone supervolcano
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    Continue reading, see more images of this crack, and of other similar geological events throughout the globe.