[meteorite-list] One of the Strangest Landforms That I Ever Seen (Siberia, Russsia)

From: Matt Morgan <mail_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:36:34 -0700
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No they are typically periglacial landforms, having an ice core . Permafrost and the ice core can load on liquid water and force the water up into the center and deform the sediment covering the surface of the landform. They can be seasonal and multi-generational.
Matt

On February 10, 2014 10:29:48 PM MST, Anne Black <impactika at aol.com> wrote:
>Irkutz is not tropical, but isn't it a bit too warm for a pingo?
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>Anne M. Black
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt Morgan <mail at mhmeteorites.com>
>To: Anne Black <impactika at aol.com>; veomega <veomega at gmail.com>;
>inselberg <inselberg at cox.net>
>Cc: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
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>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] One of the Strangest Landforms That I
>Ever Seen (Siberia, Russsia)
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>Looks like a pingo to me. Just google image the term.
>Matt
>
>On February 10, 2014 10:17:13 PM MST, Anne Black <impactika at aol.com>
>wrote:
>>A partially collapsed salt dome????
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>>Anne M. Black
>>www.IMPACTIKA.com
>>IMPACTIKA at aol.com
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Yinan Wang <veomega at gmail.com>
>>To: Paul H. <inselberg at cox.net>
>>Cc: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>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. <inselberg at cox.net> 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-n
>est-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.
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