Burckle Crater
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Burckle Crater is an undersea crater likely to have been formed by a very large scale comet or meteorite impact event. It is located to the east of Madagascar and west of Western Australia in the southern Indian ocean. Its position was determined in 2006 by the Holocene Impact Working Group using evidence of its existence from prehistoric chevron dune formations in Australia and Madagascar that allowed them to triangulate its location.
Burckle Crater lies undersea at 30.865S latitude and 61.365E longitude in the Indian Ocean.
- Burckle Crater is at coordinates Coordinates:
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[edit] Formation
Burckle Crater has not yet been dated by radiometric analysis of its sediments. The Holocene Impact Working Group think that it was created about 5,000 years ago during the Holocene epoch when a comet impacted in the ocean, and that enormous megatsunamis created the dune formations which later allowed the crater to be pin-pointed.
[edit] Legend
As not only the Bible, but other ancient writings from various cultures make reference to a 'great flood', it is possible that these legends are associated with this event.
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[edit] External links
- Meteor 'misfits' find proof in sea Impacts more recent and often, researchers say
- Impact Craters as Sources of Megatsunami Generated Chevron Dunes
- Transcript of ABC interview with Ted Bryant
- Chevron-shaped Accumulations Along the Coastlines of Australia as Potential Tsunami Evidences? Science of Tsunami Hazards (2003), Vol. 21, #3, p 174.
