Posted on 11/15/2006 8:00:40 PM PST by djf
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.
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So is Manhattan about the same size as Clay County, Minnesota, and is the Chrysler tower about the same size as the Needles in Strawberry River, Utah? I hate these parochial comments...
Depends on the speed, size and weight, plus hardness/density. That thing must of been really movin' to go through 12,500 feet of water and then create such a crater.
Wow, this event happened around the same time that the moon first appeared in the night sky.
The Libs will. They would be complaining about the pattern on the living room wallpaper while the house was burning down around them.
Just ask Robert Byrd.
About the size of Ted Kennedy or Gerald Nadler traveling under impulse power?
mark for later read...thanks
Of course not, it would have capsized Noah's ark and killed off all the animals of the world.
LOL
Leave no child behind, teach evolution.
Wow, that second pic is pretty telling. You can see exactly what happened.
And actually, those types of formations would seem to date it geologically pretty recent. They're probably not gonna last tens or hundreds of millions of years.
One of the mysteries of the Great Flood is -- "Where did all that water come from?". I guess it didn't stay in an evaporated state -- it precipitated out.
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I remember reading something about it raining forty days and forty nights, this sure would do it."
actually this might be it. the timing would be early enough to fit into other cultures' flood/rain stories (sumeria had one IIRC, and I have read that some indian cultures did as well?), and would certainly put enough water into the atmosphere to drasticly disrupt weather patterns worldwide.
There's no mystery if you believe in magic.
For God to throw a rock at us that size must mean that He was really pissed!
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That time ocean strike, rain/water.
Next time a dry land strike, fire.
Thanks for the ping. I recall reading something about an impact off the southeast coast of Australia that put massive areas of debris many miles inland, including the remains of a Chinese fleet.
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