Tsunami of nearly 100m each swept the Earth

The world today is more likely to be shaped by a giant tsunami nearly 100 meters high caused by meteorites.

According to National Geographic, Dallas Abbott geographer and colleague are collecting evidence that once had a giant meteorite collided with the Earth 10,000 years ago. This meteorite may have fallen into the Indian Ocean, creating a wave of super tsunamis hitting the shores of Africa. The wave was as high as 91m and much stronger than the tsunami that killed 230 people in the Indian Ocean in 2004.

According to Abbott, there are many traces of Earth on Earth, showing that the tsunami happened. These are V-shaped mountain ranges in Madagascar and ocean craters between Madagascar and Australia . Abbot argued that the large impact or landslide from volcanoes on the island of Réunion triggered a tsunami.

A giant tsunami may have swept the Earth in ancient times.(Artwork: Express).

Scientists also found that tsunamis often occurred at the end of the ice age . Abbott's team wants to understand the size of tsunamis as well as the areas most vulnerable to tsunamis.

Abbott collected 22 specimens found in the V-shaped mountains and published in the annual meeting of the Geophysical Association in San Francisco, USA, which took place in early December. . According to Abbott, this type of carbonate comes from ancient microbial fossils that live in the ocean and date back to about 10,000 years.

Abbott said the team found them at the cliff at a height of 175m. To bring them to this height, the wave must be very large and over 90m high.

However, some tsunami experts deny Abbott's hypothesis. They claim that carbonate sand is present in many V-shaped mountain ranges in the world, so the evidence Abbott gave is not convincing.

Joanne Bourgeios, a sedimentary geologist at the University of Washington, USA, argues that the prevailing wind direction has arranged the sand dunes into a V shape without any other great natural phenomenon. But Abbott asserted that the wind-driven hypothesis did not explain why the fossil of marine life appeared there. The fossils will turn into dust after being blown through 10km from the wind. Moreover, testing of sand samples showed that fossils were born 10,000 years ago, so the sand layer could not be formed recently.