Posted on 09/17/2023 6:23:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A two-peaked mountain in northeastern China is the site of the world's first confirmed mountaintop crater.
A nearly mile-wide (1.6 kilometer) divot in a Chinese mountaintop is actually an impact crater from a long-ago meteorite landing.
The newly discovered crater, located in northeastern China not far from the North Korean border, is the first confirmed mountaintop crater on Earth. Researchers aren't sure when the impact happened, but it left a circular depression and split the mountaintop into two peaks, known as Front Baijifeng and Rear Baijifeng.
The mountain peaks are littered with rock fragments known locally as "celestial stone," which turns out to be a scientifically accurate moniker... rocks on the peaks bear the telltale shock patterns of an impact with a space object...
The granite that makes up the crater formed between 150 million and 172 million years ago, which means the impact must have happened after this period, but the exact timing remains unknown, according to the new paper. Weathering patterns at one of the only other two confirmed impact craters in China — the Yilan crater in Heilongjiang province — are similar to the patterns seen on Baijifeng, the researchers wrote, suggesting their ages might be similar.
Yilan crater, at 49,000 years old, is the largest impact crater under 100,000 years old ever found. The third impact crater in China, also confirmed by Chen, is called the Xiuyan crater, also in the country's northeast.
A very massive crater, known only from the scattered glassy rocks created by the impact that fell as far away as Australia, may also be buried beneath the desert in northwestern China, according to research published in August in the journal Scientific Reports. But scientists have yet to uncover its location.
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I noticed he didn’t like communism...unlike many of our “performers” now days. He also stayed away from drugs, I think, although he was a heavy cigarette smoker.
Ok and where is this?
It reminded me of Mount St. Helens the second I saw it.
Yeah, Lowell George got booted from MoI because he was a doper. Frank’s version is, LG played him “Willin’” and he told him he had to start his own band in order to be heard by the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAT3BXzVTME
Some of it hit the lake and the opposite lakeshore,making numerous half round bays, so there’s probably some debris on the bottom because it’s 500 feet deep...but scuba divers wouldn’t recognize it as an underwater meteorite field coz they are not looking for that.
Google maps
That’s what I was going to use if I knew the location.
A ‘confirmed mountaintop crater’, eh? I dunno if I should trust these “experts”…..
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