Earth’s Lost History: Massive 370-Mile Crater Discovery Challenges Existing Geological Theories

Scitech Daily ^ | September 24, 2024 | Virginia Commonwealth University

[I-ambush]

“Why do meteors always land in craters?”
It’s just God playing golf.

[Magnum44]

[SunkenCiv]

[Magnum44]

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

That picture is fake.

They air brushed out the turtle and all four elephants.

[Mr. K]

I believe that the Gulf of Mexico is one large crater hole.

Maybe one of the oldest ever on the planet

It’s too circular to be any natural phenomenon

[1Old Pro]

I believe that the Gulf of Mexico is one large crater hole. Maybe one of the oldest ever on the planet It’s too circular to be any natural phenomenon

I tend to believe it was shaped by hundreds of thousands of years of Hurricane style storms.

[Magnum44]

It’s too circular to be any natural phenomenon

If you say so...

[Red Badger]

And so is Hudson Bay in Canada................

[BipolarBob]

Oh my gosh, you’re right! No wonder Newsom wants to ban Deep Fake photos and videos.

[BrandtMichaels]

Well I disagree with the age they ‘assigned’ since most natural clocks support young ages <10k years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hhE6tzJR_c&t=637s

[Mr. K]

its a THEORY.. wiseguy

[Magnum44]

wiseguy

I admit it

[BigEdLB]

The Edicara Period of the Proterozoic Era was just before the Cambrian Period of the Paleozoic Era. This Meteor probably helped the Cambrian life explosion. If you look at the Edicaran life forms one can see how a major event could shape and reform life

[Paal Gulli]

It's hard to believe such a large asteroid wouldn't have been a planet-killer but some scientists think this impact might have caused the Ordovician-Silurian extinction event, which only wiped out an estimated 85% of life on the planet.

[gleeaikin]

It could be both. Great impact events causing more intense global action, and then drift when things are more quiet. This 300 mi+ crater is certainly huge. Regarding the shape of the Gulf of Mexico, are you referring to the coast line of US into Mexico, or the crater hitting part of Yucatan and extending into the GUlf? The Yucatan crater which occured around 65 million years ago apparently triggered the death of the dinosaurs. It is 150 to 180 miles wide, but does NOT touch our southern shoreline.

If the subject crater is precambrian, that is certainly older than the Yucatan crater that ended the dinosaurs. I took have wondered about the huge bay in Canada. Another really large one in, I think Ontario, produced a highly mineral rich and human exploited area called the Sudbury. Drove through it once, really a visual mess. I think several even earlier ones occurred more than 1 and 2 billion years ago as well.

Another one that has raised questions for me is the Great Permian Extinction event. Much worse than the dinosaur Extinction event, perhaps around 250 million or more years ago. Has been blamed on huge effusion of lava in Siberia, but did that happen as a volcanic event, or did a very large meteor strike, and get swallowed up by all the magma that flowed out?