That means that the temperature there was higher than usual the name yamal means the end of the world which ironically is also a description applied to the bermuda triangle for those lost on boats and planes. Yamal peninsula is seismically quiet yet the area of the crater we looked into has quite an active tectonic life. A mystery crater spotted in the frozen yamal peninsula in siberia earlier this month was probably caused by methane released as permafrost thawed researchers in russia say.
Anna kurchatova from siberia s sub arctic. The hole estimated to be over 250ft wide is located in the yamal peninsula a region affectionately meaning the end of the world. The eruption was reportedly picked up by new seismic sensors.
At least two new giant craters formed on russia s yamal peninsula this year with the latest one observed exploding on june 28 2017 north of the yamal region above the arctic circle. It is now thought to be about 30 60 meters wide in. The mysterious crater on the yamal peninsula discovered by helicopter last week is not as wide as original aerial estimates suggested.
It turned out that it was the result of greenhouse gas emissions of methane that could be triggered by global warming. Anton sinitskiy scientific centre of arctic research of yamal nenets autonomous district russian scientists have uncovered the mechanism of the origin of the mysterious crater discovered on the yamal peninsula in 2017. B2 is a recently detected crater 10.
B1 is the famous yamal hole 30 kilometers from the bovanenkovo gas field a natural gas field located in the yamalo nenets autonomous okrug region of russia. The recent discovery of a couple of tens of meters wide crater in the yamal peninsula aroused numerous hypotheses of its origin including a meteorite impact or migration of deep gas as a result. The skoltech team decided to study the erkuta gas emission crater accidentally discovered in the summer of 2017 in the floodplain of the erkuta yakha river on the yamal peninsula by biologists.
At the northern end of this peninsula lie the malygina strait and beyond it bely island. полуо стров яма л is located in the yamalo nenets autonomous okrug of northwest siberia russia it extends roughly 700 km 435 mi and is bordered principally by the kara sea baydaratskaya bay on the west and by the gulf of ob on the east. The yamal peninsula russian.
