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    Discovery of one of the biggest impact craters in the world near the Falkland Islands

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    Discovery of one of the biggest impact craters in the world near the Falkland Islands Empty Discovery of one of the biggest impact craters in the world near the Falkland Islands

    Post by Lobo Sun 07 May 2017, 1:04 pm

    Discovery of one of the biggest impact craters in the world near the Falkland Islands

    The Falkland Islands, also called The Malvinas, are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located 300 miles (483 kilometres) from the coast of South America, 671 miles (1080 km) west of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (Shag Rocks), and 584 miles (940 km) north of Antarctica (Elephant Island). They consist of two main islands, East Falkland and West Falkland, together with about 700 smaller islands. Stanley, on East Falkland, is the capital and largest city. The islands are a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom, but have been the subject of a claim to sovereignty by Argentina since the early years of Argentina's independence from Spain.

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    May 7, 2017



    Scientists have discovered what they believe is one of the biggest impact craters in the world near the Falkland Islands.

    First investigations estimate the age of the crater between 270 and 250 million years ago. In other words, during the world’s biggest mass extinction event, where 96 percent of life on Earth was wiped out.

    Discovery of one of the biggest impact craters in the world near the Falkland Islands Falkland-impact-craterLocation map of the giant 150 miles wide Falkland impact crater. via Yahoo.com
    The presence of a massive crater in the Falklands was first proposed by Michael Rampino in 1992. But after a brief report at the Falklands site, very little research was carried out.
    Now, a team of scientists including Rampino went back. Their new findings show that the huge, 150 miles in diameter, circular depression just northwest of the islands is indeed the result of the massive impact of an asteroid or meteorite.
    The results are consistent with other impact craters, with certain features being “very similar to that of the Chicxulub multi-ring impact structure.” such as a large magnetic anomaly, and gravitational variations “typical of very large impact structures.”
    Researchers say the crater appears to date to the Late Paleozoic Era, overlapping with the Permian mass extinction event also known as the Great Dying. The crater dates to between 270 and 250 million years ago, but more investigations are needed to confirm this.
    If confirmed as a site of impact, then this structure would be one of the largest known impact structures on Earth. If the proposed crater turns out to be 250 million years old, it could correlate with the largest mass extinction ever: the Permian extinctions, which wiped out more than 90 percent of all species.
    So were all big mass die-offs triggered by giant asteroid impacts? That would be amazing!

    http://strangesounds.org/2017/05/falkland-impact-crater-discovery-great-dying-video.html
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