In the novel technology of the Gods by David Hatcher Childress; he tells (tells because it is an audiobook!) about this amazing structure in India which is one of the biggest astrobleme in the world! And it may be related to the K-Pg extinction event!
Yes; you questioning is right!?
What is an astrobleme? also what is K-Pg extinction!?
Well the former is an eroded remnant of a large crater made by the impact of a meteorite or comet!
We will come to the latter later!
The astrobleme or crater in question is called the Shiva Crater!
The Shiva Crater is thus an impact crater (astrobleme), located in the Indian Ocean west of India, near Mumbai.
It has been suggested that it formed around 65 million years ago, the same time as a number of other impacts that are recorded in the K-T boundary. Although it has shifted since its formation because of sea floor spreading, when pieced together it would be about 600 km by 450 km across and 12 km deep (and may be just part of a larger crater). It is estimated to have been made by a bolide (an asteroid or meteoroid) 40 km in diameter.
Unlike typical known extraterrestrial impact structures, Shiva is teardrop shaped, roughly 600 km × 400 km. It is also unusually rectangular.
The Deccan Traps are closely associated with the crater, lending support to the idea that the traps were created by an impact event. At the time of the K-T extinction, India was located over the Réunion hotspot of the Indian ocean.
Hot material rising from the mantle flooded portions of India with a vast amount of lava, the Deccan Traps, beginning a few million years before the K-T extinction and becoming very abundant about 65 million years ago. The vast magma plume finally breaking out at the surface could have been accelerated by an impact event is the hypothesis!
So then what is the K-Pg extinction event!?
Well if you had seen the ending of the Ice Age movies you would know! For those who have not then we can wait for you!
Anyway the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the K–T extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago!
The event caused the extinction of all known non-avian dinosaurs. Most other tetrapods weighing more than 25 kg (55 lb) also became extinct, with the exception of some ectothermic species such as sea turtles and crocodilians!
So the crater, the crocodiles and the sea turtles are all testimonials to the massive destruction which happened but they still lived to tell us the tale!
The Shiva crater was named by the paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee for Shiva, the Sanatana god of destruction!
Destruction leads to regeneration and that’s life…
Celebrating the Bholenath on this auspicious day!
Har har Mahadev!
Om namah shivaya!
Shubh Ratri!
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