Crater Found Ocean Floor

While this proposal does not fully prove the case it offers strong evidence.

Crater found ocean floor.

Burckle crater is an undersea feature about 29 kilometres 18 mi in diameter in the southwestern indian ocean. Officials say it is not like this is the work of men but also doesn t look like natural formation sic. In pnas sieh et al. The russian academy of sciences lists the feature as a potential impact crater.

In the late 1990s scientists using ship mounted sonar found enormous craters more than 100 meters across and about 5 meters deep on the bottom of the pacific ocean. These craters known as micro depressions were discovered during a series of underwater surveys. The holocene impact working group hiwg propose that it was formed by a very large scale and relatively recent c. 1 present the best candidate yet for the long sought source crater of the australasian tektite strewn field.

The ancient impact was concealed under a field of cooled volcanic lava. 3000 2800 bce meteorite impact event possibly resulting from a comet. A 250 million year old fault system supplying methane to enormous craters that line the floor of the arctic ocean has been discovered. Hundreds of craters with some over 3 000 feet wide were.

On the floor of lake neuchatel geologists have happened upon huge underwater craters some of the largest in the world to be found in lakes. Geochemical analysis and local gravity readings told researchers that the crater lay in southern laos on the bolaven plateau. A crater at least 28 miles wide and 1 7 miles deep formed by the impact of a comet or asteroid 50 million years ago has been discovered on the sea floor 125 miles southeast of nova scotia. A paper published in science in 2017 described hundreds of massive kilometer wide craters on the ocean floor in the barents sea.

Eyewitness reports vary from smoke rising from the ground to celestial bodies impacting the earth shortly before the craters were found. They are not. Scientists have discovered more than 4 500 mysterious holes off the coast of big sur california. An unusual and unexpected discovery.