...In this in-depth geological investigation, we explain what tektites are and how they form during hypervelocity meteorite impacts. Tektites are not volcanic glass and they are not meteorites themselves. They are created when a meteorite impact melts Earth’s surface rocks and ejects that molten material at extreme speeds, allowing it to cool mid-flight before falling back to the ground. The Australasian tektites preserve a remarkable aerodynamic sequence, from blocky, layered melt near the source region to perfectly shaped spheres and ablated button forms found thousands of kilometres away in Australia. This ordered distribution alone confirms a single, massive impact event rather than multiple impacts or volcanic activity.
Despite overwhelming physical evidence, the impact crater responsible for the Australasian strewnfield has never been definitively identified. Based on the volume of melt and the extent of the strewnfield, the crater should be tens of kilometres wide and easily detectable. This video examines why such a large meteorite crater might be missing, including the possibility that it was buried by sedimentation, erased by erosion, or obscured by later volcanic activity. We explore how impacts of this scale can fracture the crust, trigger decompression melting, and potentially initiate basaltic volcanism that rapidly fills and hides a crater soon after it forms.
The video also investigates whether the meteorite impact could have occurred in an area that is now underwater. At the time of the impact, global sea levels were significantly lower due to Middle Pleistocene glacial cycles. Large portions of the Southeast Asian continental shelf were exposed land, meaning the impact may have occurred on terrain that has since been submerged by rising seas. We discuss why sea-level rise alone cannot erase a crater, but how it can contribute to hiding an already degraded structure beneath marine sediments. At the same time, the chemistry of Australasian tektites strongly indicates a continental crust source, ruling out a deep-ocean impact and narrowing the likely impact region to mainland Southeast Asia.
They’re striving so very hard to negate Genesis 1:1.
The information about it was erased when Hilly fried her computer memory. She knew about it. Hell, she was there in the folding chair right next to Pelosi. Scarred them for life.
wy69
this crater should be massive and quite easily located.
just based on my cursory reading, I wonder if the bolaven field is large enough to have filled such a crater.
-PJ