Meteor strike may have triggered a large scale grand canon landslide 56,000 years ago

A meteorite effect in northern Erizona caused large -scale landslides in Grand Canyon about 56,000 years ago, replaced the syllabus of the Colorado River and now formed a pelioleck that brought a bringing a bringing a bring. Researchers found driftwood and lake depression in Stanton’s cave, sitting within the marble canian, joining a body of evidence that the river was once damaged by a rockfall. Radiocarbon dating keeps the wood before all known floods and indicates a major geophysical disintegration that is caused by seismic shocking from the meteorite pit effect 100 miles away. The results were reported in the journal Journal on 15 July.

Meteor effects can constitute ancient lake by triggering Grand Canyon Landslide

According to the University of New Mexico ReportThe research team used radiocarbon dating and geological analysis to detect the origin of Driftwood in an ancient lake after blocking the Colorado River formed after a powerful landslide. Landslides may have been triggered by seismic waves by meteor pit effects, probably 5.4–6 earthquakes. One of the co-Leed writers of the study, Carl Carlstrom said that such a flood was 10 times the size already recorded in the last few thousand years.

Paper suggests that a dam created a 50-mile-lumba, 300-deele-deep peliolk with beaver tracks in caves above the river, which possibly reflects an important geological phenomenon related to the barringer crater. But researchers admitted that other clarifications may occur, such as local earthquakes or rockfalls.

The layers stored in cave systems over 3,100 feet above sea level and the so -called driftwood caused a lake to surround a dam in Grand Canyon, they say, with dramatic consequences for the region.

The meteor link for landslides is “confident”, mentioned by experts, but it is going to take more data to exclude all other potential triggers for landslides and how to reopen the Grand Canyon to find out how a single event can reopen the Grand Canyon.