Upheaval Dome It is a giant rock formation in southeastern Utah, which looks like a belly button. It has two potential stories of origin, although most scientists think it was created by the fall of Meteor.
A Upheaval dome It is a rock formation in Utah with irregular peaks carved in concentric rings.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station photographed, in 2007, the structure, causing comparisons between the giant summit and a belly button.
As details A, the Upheaval summit extends 5 kilometers wide and 300 meters high, but its origin remains controversial.
The presence of shock quartz crystals on site suggests that the summit was formed after the Fall of a meteorite on Earth 60 million years ago.
Geologists think that the impact of the meteorite initially left a cup -shaped cavity on the ground, and that the edges of the cavity were unstable and eventually crumpled. Underlying rocks may then have climbed to fill the void, creating the striated structure we see today.
Differently, some scientists believe that Upheaval’s “dome” was formed by a mountain of salt that rose under the sandstone layers from the southeast of Utah.
As the National Parks Service (NPS) explains, a thick layer of salt originating from old seas without coastline is under Canyonlands National Park. THE salt is relatively light and can move in the rocksjust as ice can migrate at the bottom of a glacier.
In addition, salt is also less dense than sandstone, so it may have created a Giant “bubble” that pushed the rocks to the side as it went up.
To be true, as noted to Live Science, the theory of the salt bubble would do the dome of Upheaval to most deeply eroded salt structure in the world.
Upheaval dome in Utah (USA)
