{"id":220,"date":"2006-11-16T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T18:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2006-11-16T14:02:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T18:02:23","slug":"ancient-crash-epic-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/11\/16\/ancient-crash-epic-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Crash, Epic Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\">New Yourk Times<\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\">By <a title=\"More Articles by Sandra Blakeslee\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/b\/sandra_blakeslee\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">SANDRA BLAKESLEE<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"timestamp\">Published: November 14, 2006<\/div>\n<div class=\"timestamp\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"timestamp\">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.<\/p>\n<p>On close inspection, the chevron deposits contain deep ocean microfossils that are fused with a medley of metals typically formed by cosmic impacts. And all of them point in the same direction \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d toward the middle of the Indian Ocean where a newly discovered crater, 18 miles in diameter, lies 12,500 feet below the surface.<\/p>\n<p>The explanation is obvious to some scientists. A large asteroid or comet, the kind that could kill a quarter of the world\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s 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.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/14\/science\/14WAVE.html\">&#8230;.More&#8230;.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"timestamp\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"timestamp\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"timestamp\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"timestamp\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Yourk Times By SANDRA BLAKESLEE Published: November 14, 2006 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/11\/16\/ancient-crash-epic-wave\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}