If this were caused by a high shock event like a meteor strike, then there should be evidence in the form of shatter cones, shocked quartz crystals etc. In addition, there should be Iridium enrichment.
Best Regards, Pat ---------------------------------------- > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:17:13 -0500 > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] One of the Strangest Landforms That I Ever Seen > (Siberia, Russsia) > > A partially collapsed salt dome???? > > > Anne M. Black > www.IMPACTIKA.com > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yinan Wang <[email protected]> > To: Paul H. <[email protected]> > Cc: meteorite-list <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, Feb 10, 2014 9:48 pm > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] One of the Strangest Landforms That I > Ever Seen (Siberia, Russsia) > > > Very interesting! > > I'm suggesting Phreatic eruption (even though they say there is not > volanism, but who knows. What's odd is it looks like the site might > still be somewhat active, looks really fresh. > > -Yinan > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Paul H. <[email protected]> wrote: >> A really strange landform has made the news in Russia >> and now has appeared in the Mail Online. Articles with >> pictures and rather weird speculation about meteorites >> and all sorts of other processes that might have created it. >> >> What (or who) created Siberia's 'Eagle's Nest'? >> A meteorite, a nuke or gulag inmates? Scientists >> baffled by Sarah Griffids, Mail Online, Feb. 7, 2014 >> > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2553841/Siberian-eagles-nest-continues-baffle-scientists-Theories-250-year-old-mound-formed-range-meteorite-strike-nuclear-blast.html >> >> Huge Eagle Nest in woods, English Russia,May 27, 2013 >> http://englishrussia.com/2013/05/27/huge-eagle-nest-in-the-woods/ >> >> What created this mysterious Siberian crater? by Kate >> Baklitskaya, The Siberian Times, October 14, 2012 >> > http://www.sott.net/article/264671-What-created-this-mysterious-Siberian-crater >> >> This is certainly one of the strangest craterwrongs that >> I have ever seen. Some of the various theories that have >> been proposed for its origins are mentioned in: >> >> Patomsky crater - the nest of fire Eagle. Unknown Russia >> http://runknown.com/patomsky-crater-the-nest-of-fire-eagle >> >> I would be interested in what the people on this list >> think about what might have created this pile of rock? >> >> Does anyone know what is being said about it among >> Russian geologists and geomorphologists? >> >> Whatever, it is, it is quite young. >> >> Yours, >> >> Paul H. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> >> Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
