They find an underwater abyss that looks like the legendary eye of Suron

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22 July 2021 21:50 GMT

The scientific journey identified the eyelids of that gigantic ‘eye’ and what are two more peaks in the student and its environment.

A recent sonar scan at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, south of Indonesia, has revealed a spectacular abyss in which the Australian inventor remembers the famous Eye of the Sun from the trilogy ‘Lord of the Rings’.

Located 280 kilometers southeast of Christmas Island, the giant oval, 6.2 to 4.8 kilometers long, features a deep caldera. In the center of that depression is a 300-meter-high conical ridge that is associated with the ‘eye’ pupil, while researcher Tim says that the edges around the 300-meter-high caldera are Surron’s eyelids that O’Hara saw and collected in the pictures Published article Conversation.

The sea floor is in that area Depth of 3,100 meters, A group of underwater mountains already known to geologists. The range is estimated to be more than 100 million years old, which would have been south of Antarctica, while Australia was at other latitudes.

The RV, which traveled to O’Hara this July. The volcanic ‘eye’ that appeared in the path of the investigative science ship was not isolated. When it finds two other underwater peaks in its environment, Travel, This is not over yet, J.R.R. paid tribute to Tolkien’s work He proposed the names Bharat-dur (‘Black Fortress’) and Eret Lithui (‘Ashes Mountain’) for them.

The abyss strike did not surprise scientists: a caldera could form if a volcano erupts, recalls a member of the discovery team. The exploding magma leaves the empty chambers and then slides through the thin crust of the dome as it solidifies externally. The volcano continues to erupt magma, often forming a new small peak at the center This is what happened with Krakatoa After its catastrophic eruption in 1883.

However, O’Hara finds Caldera’s dating-related geography puzzle, which is Looks surprisingly new For a structure over 100 million years old. The neighboring mountain, Eret Lithium, is about 100 meters thick in layers of sand and soil, which contains the remains of many sea creatures. But this is not the case with the soron’s eye, which can be equated with the same sedimentation rate and maintain its shape for a reason. The most recent volcanic activity.

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