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

From: Pat Brown <scientificlifestyle_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:28:01 -0800
Message-ID: <BLU182-W115E8053E67AFECDA6F9DCBD930_at_phx.gbl>

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,?
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Pat






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> To: veomega at gmail.com; inselberg at cox.net
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> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:17:13 -0500
> CC: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] One of the Strangest Landforms That I Ever Seen (Siberia, Russsia)
>
> A partially collapsed salt dome????
>
>
> Anne M. Black
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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-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.
>>
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