Posted on 01/26/2015 1:03:44 PM PST by Sawdring
At the southern end of Madagascar lie four enormous wedge-shaped sediment deposits, called chevrons, that are composed of material from the ocean floor. Each covers twice the area of Manhattan with sediment as deep as the Chrysler Building is high.
On close inspection, the chevron deposits contain deep ocean microfossils that are fused with a medley of metals typically formed by cosmic impacts. And all of them point in the same direction — toward the middle of the Indian Ocean where a newly discovered crater, 18 miles in diameter, lies 12,500 feet below the surface.
The explanation is obvious to some scientists. A large asteroid or comet, the kind that could kill a quarter of the world’s population, smashed into the Indian Ocean 4,800 years ago, producing a tsunami at least 600 feet high, about 13 times as big as the one that inundated Indonesia nearly two years ago. The wave carried the huge deposits of sediment to land.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
One for your records.
Are they sure that it wasn’t an Alien Mother Ship?
My sediments exactly.
No, in another article they said it could have been an actual ancient Alien Father Ship.
4800 years ago?
Noah?...................
Paging Noah!
Noah, you have a call on Line 1.
Good thing it landed in water.
Might have caused Glowbull Warming..............
Most definitely.
The amount of water vapor that thing could have sent into the atmosphere could cause it to rain for forty days and forty nights ...
I'm sorry to hear that you have a cold.
Sorta like the racing strips an asteroid’s leaves in its underwear.
This is an old article and actually is covered in an episode of “The Universe” “When Space Changed History”.
I actually know one of the members of the Holocene Impact Working Group(no names..respecting her privacy). Her sister worked for me, and, I got to meet her when she gave a talk on Tunguska locally. VERY nice person.
I think I might hold-off on a new roof for the house, then.
So the Black Sea flooding because of Ice Age melt, as the Noah trigger, may have had this as the pre-trigger.
According to the article there are 275 flood catastrophe myths. Many mention a solar eclipse, which pinpoints the event to May 10, 2807 BC, or so.
If you get a chance to see the recent Noah movie, don’t bother.
Interesting with what wasn’t mentioned, super tsunamis caused by underwater rock collapses. Of course it is discounted because the sediments they displaced wouldn’t be rich in cosmic metals. *Unless* those deposits were already there, and were displaced by the tsunami.
“astronomers now calculate, catastrophic impacts could happen every 1,000 years.”
Hello Mayans!
“My sediments exactly.”
Love it.
You realize, however, that your joke is well past Dorkbama’s level.
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