Hi, Searching the Internet, I found that this landform has a number of names by which it is known. They include the “Eagle Nest,” “Patomsky Crater,” and “Patom Cone.” I like “Patom Cone” because it is nongeneric as to its origin.
I found one paper about the Patom Cone that argues it to be a "cryovolcano." This paper is: Alekseyev V.R., 2012. Cryovolcanism and the mystery of the Patom cone. Geodynamics & Tectonophysics. vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 289–307. doi:10.5800/GT-2012-3-3-0075. PDF file at http://popovgeo.professorjournal.ru/c/document_library/get_file?p_l_id=22997&folderId=69343&name=DLFE-36927.pdf and http://gt.crust.irk.ru/images/upload/tblarticle83/magazin83.pdf Abstract at http://gt.crust.irk.ru/article_83.html and http://gt.crust.irk.ru/magazin2012_3.en.html Unfortunately the main text is it Russian and My wife is to busy at work to translate it for me this week. As a result, I do not know the specifics of the arguments that this paper makes. An extended abstract about this landform is: Ermolin, E., O. Ingerov, and А. Saviсhev, 2012, Results of AMT survey of Patom crater area. Extended Abstract, 21st EM Induction Workshop Darwin, Australia, July 25-31, 2012. http://www.21emiw.com/LiteratureRetrieve.aspx?ID=117868 Additional web pages are: Fifth Expedition to the Patom Crater Gives Striking Results, Lake Baikal Fund, July 27, 2011 http://baikalfund.ru/eng/news/article.wbp?article_id=480b33b9-7ac6-4e36-b390-7b6ddf10f804 Imaggeo on Mondays: Pitter-patter of little paws in Patomsky crater. by Dmitry Demezhko, Geolog, European Geosciences Union, February 10, 2014. http://geolog.egu.eu/2014/02/10/imaggeo-on-mondays-pitter-patter-of-little-paws-in-patomsky-crater/ There is even a Wikipedia page about it at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patomskiy_crater For the people, who have Google Earth the location of this landform is 59.28449°N 116.58954° (59.28449°N 116.58954°E) 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
