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By Afza Fathima | October 20, 2014 1:21 PM EST
A new report has made suggestions that several mysterious craters found in Siberia could be linked to the mysteries surrounding the Bermuda Triangle. Scientists who were not involved in the report said that the sink hole mechanism did not explain the vanishings in the Bermuda triangle.
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A view of an empty beach in Termini Imerese in the southern Italian island of Sicily. A sun drenched island in the middle if the Mediterranean with wondeful food and beautiful beaches would be most people’s idea of heaven. But Sicily is less a case of paradise than the Bermuda Triangle, particularly when it comes to economics, with all attempts at betterment disappearing in a mysterious sinkhole.
According to the Siberian Times, a huge crater was discovered by Siberian reindeer herders in July on the Yamal Peninsula, which is also known as “the end of the world.” Apart from that, two other holes were found in the Taz District and the Taymyr Peninsula. The origins of the Siberian holes remained a mystery.
A report in the journal Nature said that the release of the gases trapped in the methane could have resulted in the sinkholes. The researchers who conducted the study said that the air that was found in the bottom of the crater had high concentrations of methane. They said that heating from above the surface as well as below the surface because of unusually warm climatic condition and geological fault lines respectively, could have lead to the high levels of methane.
Researchers have said that the disappearance of ships and aircrafts in the Bermuda Triangle could be because of the high levels of methane in the sinkholes. Many people have said that the Bermuda Triangle does not exist while a few others say that it exists between Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico.
Vladimir Romanovsky is a geologist and the professor of geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is interested in the scientific and practical aspects of both, the environmental and engineering problems, that involve ice and permafrost. In an article by Live Science, he said it was probable that sinkholes were produced in the oceans were similar to the holes found due to the methane hydrates.
Benjamin Phrampus is an Earth scientist at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He told Live Science that the methane hydrates were known to have existed along the U.S. North Atlantic continental margin. He said a large province on Blake Ridge which is located to the north of the Bermuda Triangle also was known to have the methane gases.
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