[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***As a professional geologist, I will find such ‘explanation’ MOST interesting if it ever shows its face here. ***

OR, they could say that a comet hit the earth a glancing blow and carried away the area mentioned in the BOM. After all, Jules Verne wrote about it hitting North Africa.(Off On a Comet).

[Godzilla]

Of course - that is why they are hiding in a hole at the north pole!