HE global warming The suffering of the earth is noticeable not only in the melting of the poles, but also in the radical transformation of vast forest areas. This is what happened in Yakut, in Eastern Siberia, in Russia. on that side A massive crater, known as Batagaika crater, is currently forming, one kilometer long and 100 meters deep. It engulfs a large area of forest and its origin is nothing more than the melting of the permafrost (frozen soil) in which it is located.
The crater was found a few years ago by a group of hikers and shows how quickly a process of this size can be released, because the crater andIt grows at a rate of 20-30 meters per year.according to scientists.
In this part of Siberia, the land has been permanently frozen since the Quaternary Ice Age 2.58 million years ago, but global warming is melting it and taking away everything that grows on its surface. The heat melts the permafrost and causes the soil to settle, subside, and all sorts of accidents. geological: caves, mounds, slopes and other deformations due to the fluid that begins to circulate in these places.
Origin of Batagaika crater It dates back to the 1960s, at that time major deforestation was done in the area.. As geology and mineralogist Vladímer Sivorotkin explains, this supported the land’s subsidence thirty years later. However, it was global warming and the continuous increase in temperatures that accelerated this situation. This is an ongoing process today, and it is not unlikely that similar craters may exist in other parts of the vast Siberian region.
But this open crater is also a source of data for geologists and paleontologists. It revealed layers of soil between 120,000 and 650,000 years old.
A completely intact 42,000-year-old colt discovered
During its formation, the crater exposed the remains of ancient trees and animals. An expedition led by Northeast Federal University and Kindai University (Japan) in 2018 found a fully preserved calf horse. The foal was about 42,000 years old and kept both his hair and internal organs intact.. Scientists were even able to extract liquid blood from the animal’s body.
This finding led them to assume that this now inhospitable area was densely populated in the past.
Locals call it the “gate to hell” and consider it the entrance to the underworld.
But the melting of the large crater is not over yet. If it continues to increase in size at a rate of 20 or 30 meters per year, It will swallow everything around it until it stabilizes. However, it is not known when such a thing will happen, as global warming continues.
This is why scientists warn about global warming. can cause such formations not only in Siberia, but all over the world, at least on soils dominated by permafrost, prone to thawing and radically transforming its surface.
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