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The Kondyor Massif
Feb 20, 2009
Geologists say it is an intrusion
of igneous, or volcanic, rock that
pushed up through overlying layers
of sediment. Electric arcs provide a
better explanation.
A six-kilometer-wide
circle of rock contrasts with
the surrounding topography in
Northern Siberia. It looks like a
crater formed by the impact of a
stone from space or an extinct
volcano, but neither explanation
seems to fit more detailed
observations.
The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal
Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)
on NASA’s
Terra satellite observed Kondyor
Massif on June 10, 2006. A
three-dimensional image of the
formation was created in order to
provide an indication of its
proportions. There is little
vegetation within the ring of rock
as the ASTER image reveals. A river
flows out of the massif on the north
side, fed by rainwater collecting
within the uplifted rim.
An interesting feature of the river
is that it appears to cut through
the rim of the massif at one point,
as if it adopted a channel that was
present before the river began to
flow. The geological term for such
an anomaly is "superimposed
topography." In other words, the
river and its bed seem to be
inserted into the terrain, rather
than developing with it.
Kondyor Massif is unique not just
because of its unusual structure,
but for the mineral veins within it:
gold, silver, and platinum are mined
there by the Russian government.
Previous Picture of the Day articles
about the
Siberian Traps and
Popigai Crater noted that
northern Russia possesses rich
diamond, copper, nickel, and coal
deposits. Popigai is one of the
world's most profitable diamond
resources and includes one of the
most concentrated examples of
nickel-bearing ore in the world.
Kondyor is not an impact crater, per
se, because the hallmarks of
electrical activity are present.
Circular formations all over the
world are usually taken to be signs
that an asteroid or a meteoroid
struck with sufficient force that a
hole was mechanically blasted out of
the strata, leaving behind a crater
as forensic evidence. However, most
(if not all) of these patterns
display characteristics that call
into question the prevailing
interpretation.
As we have written in the past, the
Manicouagan Impact Structure and
Kebira Crater (100 kilometers
and 39 kilometers in width,
respectively) do not fit the
asteroid hypothesis. Concentric
rings surround central uplifts; the
interiors are wide and flat, with no
blast debris; and neither formation
has been "punched" into the Earth.
Rather, they both resemble the
circular formations visible on
the Moon and elsewhere in the
Solar System. If there were no
forests surrounding the Kondyor
Massif, it would resemble
Terra Sirenum on Mars.
One of the most striking aspects to
the large circular formations on
Earth is that heavy metal mining
takes place in all of them. The
Sudbury Structure in Canada is a
copper and copper sulfate mine.
Popigai, as has been noted, is a
nickel mine, and Manicouagan is a
source for lead, copper, silver and
gold. In western Canada, lying along
a
giant arc that stretches from
the Great Lakes to northern
Saskatchewan, uranium is found in
abundance. Much of the mining takes
place underneath what were once
large circular lakes that have been
drained to accommodate operations.
What do these observations indicate?
From an Electric Universe
perspective, the presence of heavy
metals is a result of neutron
capture from an interplanetary
thunderbolt. When electric
discharges erupt into space, they do
so because they are attracted to an
oppositely charged leader that
descends from the sky.
Kondyor Massif is round, with an
upraised rim and deposits of heavy
metals, because electric currents
flowed into the center of the
formation on their way to meet a
descending leader-stroke from
another charged object. Ions
responded to the intense electric
field and dragged the surrounding
rock and soil with them toward
space.
Meanwhile, the center of the main
arc erupted in a titanic pillar of
electric fire. The crater rim was
uplifted and then fused in place,
while the inrushing dendritic
channels pulled the most
electrically conductive minerals
together into a consolidated mass.
The rotating arc then left a shocked
peak in the center of the maelstrom.
Kondyor is one of the remnants from
circular augers of plasma that
repeatedly devastated Siberia in the
recent past.
Written by Stephen Smith from an
idea suggested by
Michael Steinbacher.
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