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Originally Posted by uncle phil
fenabosy bay?
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That's close enough for me, unc. So you're up next.
I know it as the Fenambosy chevrons, this is one of four near the tip of Madagascar, 600 feet high and three miles from the ocean. These are like the little ripples made by the waves in the sand on most beaches...except the waves that made these must have been HUMUNGOUS!!! It is theorized that the asteroid that hit and made the Burckle crater under the Indian Ocean caused these chevrons.
At the southern end of Madagascar lie four enormous wedge-shaped sediment deposits, called chevrons, that are composed of material from the ocean floor. Each covers twice the area of Manhattan with sediment as deep as the Chrysler Building is high.
On close inspection, the chevron deposits contain deep ocean microfossils that are fused with a medley of metals typically formed by cosmic impacts.
The explanation is obvious to some scientists. A large asteroid or comet, the kind that could kill a quarter of the world’s population, smashed into the Indian Ocean 4,800 years ago, producing a tsunami at least 600 feet high, about 13 times as big as the one that inundated Indonesia nearly two years ago. The wave carried the huge deposits of sediment to land.
Burckle crater has not been dated, but Dr. Abbott estimates that it is 4,500 to 5,000 years old. He thinks he can say precisely when the comet fell: on the morning of May 10, 2807 B.C.
Dr. Masse analyzed 175 flood myths from around the world, and tried to relate them to known and accurately dated natural events like solar eclipses and volcanic eruptions. Among other evidence, he said, 14 flood myths specifically mention a full solar eclipse, which could have been the one that occurred in May 2807 B.C.
Half the myths talk of a torrential downpour, Dr. Masse said. A third talk of a tsunami. Worldwide they describe hurricane force winds and darkness during the storm. All of these could come from a mega-tsunami.
Of course, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, Dr. Masse said, “and we’re not there yet.”
When interviewed by the most prestegious Harvard Science Journal, BadNick, that amateur scientific surfer somewhat infamous on TFP was noted to say "are we there yet?"