this global warming The suffering of the world is realized not only in the melting of the poles, but also in the radical transformation of vast forest landscapes. This is what happened in Russia, in Eastern Siberia, in Yakut. there A huge crater known as Batagaika crater is forming, which is already a kilometer long and 100 meters deep. It engulfs a vast area of forest and its origin is nothing more than the melting of the permafrost (frozen soil) in which it resides.
The crater, found a few years ago by a group of hikers, shows how quickly a process of this size can be triggered.growing at a rate of 20 or 30 meters per yearaccording to scientists.
The soil in this part of Siberia has been permanently frozen since the Quaternary Ice Age 2.58 million years ago, but global warming is melting it and taking with it everything that grows on its surface. The heat melts the permafrost and causes the land to collapse, collapse, and accidents of all kinds. geological: caves, mounds, slopes and other deformations due to the fluid that began to circulate in these places.
Origin of Batagaika crater It dates back to the 1960s, when a large part of the forest in the area was carried out.. This supported the sinking of the land thirty years later, as explained by geology and mineralogist Vladímer Sivorotkin. However, it was global warming and the continuous increase in temperatures that accelerated this situation. This is an ongoing process today and it cannot be ruled out that similar craters may exist in other parts of the wider 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.
Completely intact 42,000-year-old colt found
As the crater was formed, it revealed the remains of ancient trees and animals. A fully preserved baby horse was found during an expedition led by Northeastern Federal University and Kindai University (Japan) in 2018. The colt was about 42,000 years old and kept both his hair and internal organs intact.. Scientists even managed to extract liquid blood from the body of the animal.
This finding led them to assume that this now uninhabitable region 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 great crater is not over. If it continues to increase in size by 20 or 30 meters per year, It will devour everything around it until it stabilizes. However, it is not known when such a thing will happen, as global warming continues.
That’s why scientists warned about global warming. may cause more such occurrences not only in Siberia but all over the world, at least on soils dominated by permafrost that are susceptible to melting and radically transforming its surface.
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