262 foot wide hole suddenly appeared in Siberia

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  • thatwhichisnt

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    Giant Hole Appears At "Worlds Ends"

    http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/07/16/04/48/giant-hole-appears-at-world-end

    A mysterious giant hole spotted in northern Siberia has sparked an urgent expedition.

    Aerial images posted on YouTube indicate a hole up to 80m wide in Yamal, a peninsula jutting into Arctic waters whose name translates as "the end of the world".

    The hole was discovered by a helicopter crew working for an oil company in the gas-rich region, The Siberian Times reports.

    A scientific expedition organised by the Yamal authorities will leave tomorrow to investigate. The team includes experts from Russia's Centre for the Study of the Arctic, the Cryosphere Institute of the Academy of Sciences and Russia's Emergencies Ministry.

    The cause of the hole's sudden appearance is not yet known.

    Experts said that the darkening around the inner rim of the crater indicated "severe burning" that scorched its edges.

    A spokesman for the Emergencies Ministry's Yamal branch has ruled out a meteorite strike and web speculation about the crater indicating "the arrival of a UFO craft" has likewise been dismissed.

    An expert from the Sub-Arctic Scientific Research Centre said global warming could be the culprit, releasing gases under the surface that mixed with water and salt and then exploded like a champagne cork.

    The expedition team will take soil, air and water samples for analysis.

    Siberia’s frozen soil — known as permafrost — contains millions of tons of methane gas. As the surface slowly warms, this gas begins to be released — and pools into highly volatile pockets. A mixture of water, salt and gas may have ignited an underground explosion. Another possibility is that the gas pocket may simply have built up enough pressure to pop like a Champagne cork


    531px-Extinction_intensity.svg.png

    This is the map of extinction intensity. We exist alll the way to the right, that last huge blip before present was the disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs.

    The giant one in the middle? Where almost all life was wiped out?

    It was caused by the methane in Siberia and the Arctic being released.
     

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    http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/07/16/04/48/giant-hole-appears-at-world-end






    531px-Extinction_intensity.svg.png

    This is the map of extinction intensity. We exist alll the way to the right, that last huge blip before present was the disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs.

    The giant one in the middle? Where almost all life was wiped out?

    It was caused by the methane in Siberia and the Arctic being released.

    What units of measurement do the numbers on each side of your graph represent?
    What do each of the letters stand for?
     
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