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

From: Yinan Wang <veomega_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:48:08 -0500
Message-ID: <CALpO9Hd7OX1pPTK10yjqiB8YrMAAxsJ-j1YWp4iZ7DYk_fPB_A_at_mail.gmail.com>

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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