New hypothesis about Ice Age

The giant meteorite that hit Earth 2.5 million years ago may have triggered a tsunami on a large scale and pushed the world into the Ice Age.

Scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW - Australia) say meteorites, with a diameter of more than 1.6 km, have crashed straight into the deep waters of the southern Pacific, most experts overlooked its destruction of the coast along the Pacific belt, or the possibility of destabilizing the entire weather system of the planet.

Experts are doubting that the meteorite triggered the Ice Age - (Photo: NASA)

'This event is only known as a meteorite crash into the deep sea and sunk into oblivion, since no meteorite can be seen to be studied as in the case of a meteorite falling on land' , according to team leader James Goff.

Mr. Goff is co-director of the Australian-Pacific Tsunami Research Center and UNSW's Natural Hazard Research Laboratory.

According to Physorg, referring to expert Goff, they are referring to the case of a small mountain-sized celestial object moving at great speed and crashing into a deep sea, between Chile and Antarctica.

Unlike a land collision, where its energy will largely be absorbed on the spot, the asteroid will generate tsunamis hundreds of meters high around the impact point, according to Goff.

Geological deposits in Chile, Antarctica, Australia and elsewhere show evidence of a global weather change, and stem from massive tsunamis.

The collision also expelled a large amount of water, sulfur and dirt into the stratosphere. At that time, Earth was in a cooling phase, and the event was enough to speed up and accelerate that process, starting the Ice Age, according to Australian experts.