William sent in the link https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/technology/five-mile-asteroid-impact-crater-below-atlantic-captured-in-exquisite-detail-by-seismc-data-AA1rEgaW … researchers at the American Heriot-Watt University have taken new images of a five mile wide crater in the Atlantic – in the Gulf of Guinea. It was caused by a cosmic rock hitting the Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago. It seems it was a piece of the same asteroid that caused the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan. Are there any more craters out there from the same event. See alternative https://phys.org/news/2024-10-mile-asteroid-impact-crater-atlantic.html …
It immediately caused a bowl shaped crater – and rocks became so hot they were fluid, flowing upwards from the floor of the crater. Electric Universe people seem to see all craters as evidence of electric arcing – or similar scars from thunder bolts. However, anthropologists, and other scientists, perceive references to thunderbolts of the gods as really a nod to cosmic rocks reaching the surface of the Earth. Some aspects of the Electric Universe hypothesis are obviously better than others.
The damage zone of the impact covers thousands of square kilometres beyond the crater itself. We are also told it would have created a tsunami wave 800 metres in height. That must have left a geologial imprint – but where is it? Might some of the sedimentary layers have been laid down fairly quickly and are hiding in the uniformitarian model – masquerading as a lengthy period of time. Such a big tsunami wave would have travelled across the Atlantic – taking into account the likelihood the Atlantic was not so wide back then.
Dr Uisdean Nicholson discovered the crater in 2022 when studying seismic reflection data of the Atlantic sea bed. He was quickly joiued by other geologists from different universities. The crater is off the coast of Guinea in West Africa. He went on to work with planetary scientists and goelogists in the UK as well as the US in order to clarify the crater. More recently, high resolution 3D seismic data was used to gain a better handle on the crater. The impact was also associated with large landslides at the edge of what is now the continental shelf off this part of Africa. Some of the landslides collapsed below the ocean, and there is also evidence of a train of tsunami waves going away from, then back towards the crater. Is it possible the tusnami came into contact with a tsunami wave generated by Chicxulub – causing the secondary movement. Evidence of large resurge was found on the ocean bottom – but see the research paper at https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01700-4 …