Scars on the body of the earth. Climatic crisis can open new "gate hell" in Russia and Canada

Researchers believe that the number of large -scale collapses can increase due to the extreme temperatures that the planet faced. The mega -boost in the Bathayka in the northeast of Russia, also known as the "gate to hell" is the most geological feature of this kind, at least as far as scientists are known. It is located in the Siberian desert and surrounded by green boreal forests, writes iflscience.

Although the data of the "hell" is exceptional in its size and height, it is not the only decline caused by a climate that has left scar on the surface of our planet over the last few decades. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! It should be noted that the term "Megaspad" has not become widespread among geologists and has no strict scientific definition.

However, it is associated with a known term "decline", which indicates a loose mass of material or stones that have fallen from the slope of a hill, cliff or coastline. As a rule, megaspads occur as a result of land disruption earthquakes, moles of permafrost, or river blasting. For example, when such collaps occur in the Arctic areas due to the melting of rich ice areas, they are called regressive thaws.

Scientists say that Crater Batpayka is today the largest of the known examples of regressive thaw, which is also called the mega -supply. Researchers say that the crater has a depth of about 100 meters, extends for about 1 kilometer and covers an area of ​​about 77 hectares. It is located in the Russian Republic of Sakh, between the settlements of Batpai and Essay-Haya, in the area of ​​rich to eternal permafrost.

Despite the fact that the crater is like a "wound" from the catastrophic event that happened thousands of years ago, in fact the decline began only a few decades ago, and the cause was warming. By the way, the crater continues to increase to this day as the planet is heated. The fact is that eternal permafrost, in fact, fastened the earth here, but the warming turned this "ice cement" into water.

As a result, the earth was shaking and succumbed - the flow of garbage squeezed down the slope to the river. Scientists say that as the land continues to fall, more frozen soil is exposed to heat, and the size of the crater is increasing. Some previous studies have shown that the "gate to hell" increases at a speed of 10-30 meters per year. However, these are not the only such "gates" on the body of the earth.

According to the geological service of the northwestern territories, some of the largest mega-supplies are also located on the plateau, east of Richardson Mountains in Canada. However, Russia remains a "hot spot" of such formations, since eternal permafrost covers about 65% of the country's territory. Researchers warn that the relentless heating of the planet leads to the emergence of new thawing of eternal permafrost.

For example, according to one of the studies of thousands of soil shifts caused by climate change, has been found in the high latitudes of the Arctic over the last decades. Statistics show that in the period from 1984 to 2015, the number of such "wounds on the Earth's body" increased 60 times in a record. Moreover, most of the collapses appeared after four particularly hot years. Scientists fear that further warming of the Earth will lead to the fact that such craters will only become more.