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Savonoski Crater: A Scientific Mystery

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Savonoski Crater , Kaiti CRITZ - National Park Service ( NPS) ; Link Savonoski Crater:  The mysterious, perfectly round hole in Alaska that scientists can't explain (Sascha PARE, LiveScience ; February 21, 2025) https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/savonoski-crater-the-mysterious-perfectly-round-hole-in-alaska-that-scientists-cant-explain The Savonoski Problem (T. Neil DAVIS, Geophysical Institute - University of Alaska Fairbanks ; September 01, 1978) https://www.gi.alaska.edu/alaska-science-forum/savonoski-problem Research Article SAVONOSKI CRATER ALASKA:  POSSIBLE METEORITE IMPACT STRUCTURE (FRENCH et al. , 1972) https://adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1972Metic...7...97F

An Ancient Oceanic Plate is being torn apart beneath the Zagros Mountains

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Satellite image of Salt Glaciers in the Zagros Mountains , USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center ; Link Oceanic plate between Arabian and Eurasian continental plates is breaking away (Press Release, Georg-August-Universität-Göttingen ; 28 January 2025) https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/135974.html?id=7703 Featured Research Article The Miocene subsidence pattern of the NW Zagros foreland basin reflects the southeastward propagating tear of the Neotethys slab (KOSHNAW et al. , 2024) https://se.copernicus.org/articles/15/1365/2024/ Zagros Folded Zone , Joshua DOUBEK ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Zagros Mountains Fold Thrust Belt (FTB) , Mikenorton ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link