Another giant crater appeared on Yamal

Yamal is considered a treasure island, which always has something new for scientists. Another huge crater was discovered on the surface of the island. A scientific expedition was immediately organized there. It was established that the funnel is a hydrolaccolite crater or, as people say, a hummock of gas heaving, the portal reports PLANETANOVOSTI.COM with reference to Vesti Yamal.

Basil Bavlensky talked about the fact that this object can be called unique. You can use it to get a huge amount of information, but now experts are not ready to tell you the details.

In the scientific registers, the object was given the number 17. Since 2014, this number of craters has been discovered and studied by experts. The very first discovery was a real sensation, which was talked about all over the world. Experts received a lot of important information in 2017 during the study of the "Seyakhinskaya funnel".

In permafrost there are cavities filled with gas, which is under enormous pressure. In this case, the heaving does not occur completely in the entire array, but only in the part that covers the funnel. The thickness of such a "cover" can be from 5 to 10 meters.

When the gas reaches about 12 atmospheres, it breaks through the permafrost. Ice and soil can spread for hundreds of meters around the cavity. As a result, a huge cylindrical funnel appears, the depth of which can reach 50 meters. A special feature of the funnel is that it has perfectly round contours all over the surface. Object number 17 was recognized as unique not only because of its huge diameter and depth, but also because it was preserved for further study. That is why experts expect to get a lot of new information about this incredible phenomenon.