World's Largest Asteroid Impact Found in Australia
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All signs are pointing to a new contender for the world's largest asteroid impact. This asteroid is almost double the size of the 300km wide Vredefort impact site in South Africa, with it appearing to have landed in the small country town of Deniliquin, in New South Wales, which appears to be the site of the central uplift dome. This monster of an asteroid left behind a suspected crater size of 520km, and it appears as though it is buried deep beneath the relatively freshly deposited sediments of the Murray Basin. Australia may have snatched first place for the largest impact site in the world with this one.
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I would love it if you looked at an area in Queensland that I noticed in magnetic maps. I'm no geologist, but i see an area of interest with a 300km diameter plus structure. Please let me know I you would like to see what I think I found. Cheers. Love the channel 😊
So, as a geologist, where do you think any potential Nickle deposits similar to Sudbury would be? No doubt buried deep but they could be rich enough to justify it.
@@Hossak I'm working on a new proposal for automated deep low cost mining method. So, I would be very interested too.
@@logic.and.reasoning QLD based geo here - there's two very large Early Cretaceous impact structures in QLD (Tookoonooka and Talundilly). There's some other potential structures too at many scales.
@allatheaussie hi mate. Cheers for the reply. These are structure names? I'll see if I can find the magnetic map I saw. I would love to chat with you sometime 😊
I looked. It is an Australian Geoscience map from 22nd August 2016. (Has an "eye" looking structure in the centre of Australia in blue, with eyelid type features).
The structures I'm looking at seem concentric circles, outer rim at near 500km, with the centre just below the "QLD" label.
WooHoo, Australia once again takes 1st prize
Heck yeah we do!
@@OzGeologyOfficial For the amount of Homeless people we sure do! YAY!
Yeah, but by golly, it just about hit Melbourne 😱
Been some good years for australia. Took biggest known eagle title from NZ with a ten foot wingspan, one foot extra!
@user-sp4gy7ko5l winning all round!
I grew up in Deni in the 90s I was working for a local drilling company they had a crew out near werai station near wakool doing a water bore thet hit something so hard at 200 metres I think that it smashed the diamond drilling tip and also I had encountered pulling up Redgum and charcoal at 200 metres aswell around some drill sites I always thought something big had happened geological there as it is so flat and the artisan water basin we would also pull up microbial life forms that the csrio would collect for study
Punctuation is your friend.
😂@@rangerdan824
@@rangerdan824 I assume he wrote that 'sentence' while drilling.
@@davesmith826 aholes
Charcoal at 200m, yeah wow, also shows it happened a LONG time ago.
Good to see you back.... Sudbury Crater in Canada is responsible for rich ores there. No reason to think same didn't happen in Paleo Australia... Cheers Mate...
Thank you so much for watching! It's great to see your comment here again :) I appreciate it!
And it only annoyed the local animals. It did make the Funnelweb Spders pretty angry
😳I stay away from NSW just because Funnel webs.
@v8infinity8 better stay away from all of Eastern Australia, because they're found in Queensland and Victoria too. 😅
There are members of the Funnel Web family that are related in Victoria- found one in my Laundry one day and called the CSIRO in a panic lol. I have heard they are moving further down the coast. The scariest thing I ever saw in my front yard was a Tarantula Hawk Wasp- Cat was staking out its nest in my front lawn. If you get stung by one of those -you will drop and scream for 5 minutes -have a Google of that one. It was about 6 cms long and it was black- wasp shaped. Absoeffinglutely terrifying.@@theharper1
Have a look at Tabletop mountain range near Albury. Looks like part of an impact crater rim. And it lines up with Deniliquin as its center.
Thanks for letting me know, I'll check it out!
I've driven thru Deniliquin, the roughest roads anywhere. This has to be true!
Western Mining have found gold deep beneath the northern Victorian town Lockington and the deposits extend towards Echuca. These deposits and the Cadell fault that shifted the Murray River very near Echuca may be related to the impact.
Great video thank you mate 👌👍
Thanks for watching! 😊
Dam….nearly got Canberra…
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Would have been a bit early to sort that lot out!
No loss!
I grew up in Sunbury & immediately thought something similar. So close. Better luck next time. 😂
den - ill - i - quin
Was going to make the same comment.
den - E
Denny.
Denno's.
Flood country.
It's all good!
My bad!
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I was born in Broken Hill and was going to comment the same 😄
I always find it interesting how South Africa is so similar to Australia in many ways - like geology, weather, flora and even impact craters. Many of their natural landscapes look exactly like here in Aus.
and racism!
@@neverascentlol
@@neverascent Think you will find it in all countries
@@neverascentthe chinese are the worst racists by far
They, along with India and Antarctica, were all part of Gondwana.
What is mind blowing is that this was seven times longer ago than when the Dinosaurs were wiped out and the earth was still well passed middle age.
Interesting video. Informative. I vote for the impact, because the central rebound dome.
Thank you so much for watching! I also vote for an impact.
Fascinating, in the 1950's I lived in Sunbury as a child and little did we suspect what was beneath our feet. Cheers.
Interesting thanks
Thanks for watching!
Have a look at the Murray River mate- there are 2 large bends in the river that correspond with the walls of the impact site
I'll take a look at it. Thanks for letting me know and for watching!
@@OzGeologyOfficial 🙂
This area could hold trillions of dollars worth of wealth.
Agreed!
@@OzGeologyOfficialor not.!
Yep probably been sold to China already 😢🇦🇺
@@johnsweeney6072no different than you finding gold buried deep in your backyard - it belongs to the Crown!
Imagine how many utes you could buy with a trillions dollars
Diamonds and gold everywhere in that circle
Maybe a lot more could be found on the basis of the impact theory?
It could well have been an impact. Such events, as you know, are well-studied. Nice one!
Agreed! Thanks for watching!
Love the constant AA++ content you churn out hats off and keep it coming.
Good possibility of a major impact.
Agreed!
@@OzGeologyOfficial until Wikipedia says otherwise South Africa still No.1 ...LOL
Fascinating summary of the available evidence. Thank you 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
One almost twice the size of Vredefort is absolutely terrifying.
I would have thought the largest known impact with Earth would have been the object that formed our moon.
In the spirit of being equally picky, the impact that created the moon was NOT of an asteroid, it was a planetoid named Theia.
That was so long ago and did so much damage that it would be impossible to find the site where it hit today.
Earth was only formed after the Theia impact. Before that, it was something else.
It’s been said that we are “of the stars”… but actually of the moon as well.
If it wasn’t for the Theia impact, what was before Earth would have formed into a water world…
And we would be… fish.
And it's under 300 mo of sediment? This is just freaking amazing. Thanks for the news about this crater. Astroblemes fascinate me, for their size and varied characteristics.
Thanks for watching! I’m glad you found this as fascinating as I do!
Eugene Shoemaker spent a lot of time in Australia looking for impact craters -- that is where he met his fatal car accident.
That's really cool.
Agreed! Thanks for watching 😊
Thanks!
Thank you for the generous donation! I appreciate it :) And thank you for watching, I'm so glad you enjoyed this!
It's definitely an Impact Crater. Once shown the uplift, the surrounding rings are very evident.
I know of another location that appears clearly to me as an impact crater (in Northern Europe) that doesn't appear to be documented. It has been a while so I can't remember the exact location at the moment but it has a city in it that fills a good portion of it.
I'll see if I can relocate it (I have notes somewhere too).
That is Deniliquin, not Dineliquin or Dinalequin. Perhaps you are from Melbourne, or as some call it, Malbn.
I resisted the urge... lol
Well this is news to me 😂
Hehe! I moved to Australia, Perth more than 50 years ago from what was then Rhodesia. I could barely understand what was being said. I moved around quite a bit, encountering many variations of strine before setting up a new life in remote Vic High Country where once again I couldn't understand a bloody word. So now in my old age, living in the Yarra Valley about 70km out from Melbourne's CBD I appreciate and enjoy every Ozzy pronunciation. Just one of the little quirky things that helps make Australia unique.
Glad some said it before me and I was born and raised in Vic. Queenslanders pronounce towns/suburbs strange.
Mt Maria us pronounced Mt Mariah. 🤦♂️🤷♂️
As someone who lives in the district, it grated every time it was said haha
Got Me Checking out the Numerous National Parks { They're Every Where ! } You have the China Wall in Mungo. Cocoparra Nat'l Pk. Has some ancient looking Rocks.
It was unsatisfying that these values were not quantified: 5:50 "it would have raised the temperature of the atmosphere to unthinkable levels and the ejector released would have shrouded the globe for an unthinkable amount of time"
If confirmed, this crater is insanely huge. I've troubles accepting a crater that size.
I wonder what effect the geologic shaping / changes had on how lightning ridge opals formed a few hundred million years later, it looks like the edge of the crater reaches right over to lightning ridge
Wasn't one there around Wedderburn? not sure if you have done a vid but would be cool to check your thoughts on that? Thanks
I would love to metal detect for gold in Australia but I hate flies on my face.
You can buy face nets here that go over your hat and face to keep the flies out. You’re not the only one that hates flies
Fun Fact: I once inhaled a fly whilst prospecting on a river. They are the bane of my existence. My face net broke a few days prior and I was foolish enough to not buy another. They're incessant little buggers.
@@OzGeologyOfficial the little buggers know when both your hands are busy 🙂
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I'm not entirely sure I WANT there to be millions of tons of gold under Deniliquin. I guess if it's hard to reach and very deep, that's not such an issue, but ....
If the market price of gold is $3,ooo an ounce (which is very roughly what it is) and you stumble on a deposit that's larger than all the gold reserves on Earth, then the price of gold will be less than a hundred dollars an ounce in a year.
I hear people talking about mining in space, throwing a rope around an asteroid and bringing it home, and flooding the market with several million tons of gold, silver, platinum .... I don't think they quite understand why those materials are so valuable now, or what would happen if we suddenly could pave the streets with gold. Your asteroid is not going to be worth a billion trillion dollars, that's not how these things work. You would have just made every precious metal reserve on the planet, worthless.
See Dale Carnegie and "How to Win Friends and Influence People."
Insane to contemplate
Agreed!
I asked someone about this site about two years ago. I could see the rings, that's why I asked.
It is amazing what we are learning with technology.
The only unusual thing about this impact was how late in Rath history it occurred and the size of the impactor. There may be many other such big late impacts buried under younger rocks.
There were much larger impacts earlier on, with several being huge enough to *boil* earth's oceans, with the biggest of all forming our moon.
Thank you for an awesome presentation. Unparalleled, informative, totally plausible factual and logic conclusions.
I would like to see your opinion on the occurrence of unusual large amounts of Osmium and Iridium in Tasmania, it may be linked. The planet may have had sequential impacts.
An event that is more likely to be responsible for mas extinction .
Amazing timing I was literally thinking about doing a video on that this morning. If not now, I will definitely do it in the future as the deposits in Tasmania are certainly interesting.
Isn't Tasmania geologically very different from mainland Australia though?
Yaaaaaaay😊
WOW!!
Despite all that violence, life persisted. It must be on other planets if it can survive all that.
Even the sky is deadly in Oz! 😂
is there a corresponding contracoup tectonic feature?
What happens if a very large meteorite takes a glancing blow rather than as seen with many impact cones a straight down impact?
What I see suggests the possibility of a meteorite moving fast enough that it effectively bounced off the planet, either impacting and ripping away a certain amount of ejector or coming in at such a low angle it bent around the atmosphere skimming the surface and melting the closest material to an possible impact without actually making landfall. It would require the meteor to be excessively large and moving extremely fast but my brain is not upto those kinds of calculations .
I do know it would have a similar effect to a full on impact but without the extreme depth of a massive impact.
Gday deni alot of u know me I miss mum n dad in tatong it's not the same haven't been there coz the farm brings many memories.
Caused Tasmania to snap off.
Uplift domes are a sign of electrical impacts as are seen on the moon.
That is huge, If you strip the planet of water there are huge chunks missing.
Technically, the largest impact site no longer exists as the Earth was reformed by it. Theia.
Well, not an impact site exactly but there is that big rock that orbits our big rock which some poets have waxed lyrical about, I believe.
damn, missed Canberra.
And only 450 million years too soon. 😅
Ever since Google Earth came out I thought it looked like a crater.
I think it looks like two craters actually. We'll see I suppose.
There are impact sites all across the globe so why not there as well? The one view you show(magnetic I assume) certainly shows the tell tale signs. The one thing about it though is the continental location has changed. 440-460 million years ago Australia occupied a different location on the planet and has migrated to it's current location. This migration and the subsequent geologic events associated with the migration could have helped to bury and mask the most obvious signs of a major impact at the site.
The largest impact is the Pacific Ocean as the entirety of its impression is from the impact that formed the moon.
Your map puts Wagga near the upper Murray. It is on the lower Murrumbidgee
And no shatter cones or shocked quartz. Hmmmm...I would like to know what you think about the origin of the Nastapoka Arc and Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay!
Just tell me where to dig. 🙂
Dig everywhere!
Interesting but what about Ebor, oregene ???
Known to humanity you mean.
True.
I believe we are man and woman = mankind ... law dictionary meaning of human is👉 less than a monster ... SO theirs that !
Um Ayers Rock herum sind Teile konzentrischer Kreise im Radius von 500 km zu sehen...
World's Largest Impact Found in Australia!
Theia: "Hold my...er...moon!"
Didnt they find one in Antartica thats twice the size of the dinosaur killer? Or more. It supposedly broke up Gondwana.
OMG, Wagga Wagga is a real place. The last time I heard that name was on Monty Python's Australian Table wines parody quoting "with the bouque of an Aboriginnie's armpit"
Good ol' Monty Python. It never ages.
Another tube!
Yes, real emetic fans will also go for a prizewinning cuvee reservé chateau bottled nuit sans wagga wagga, which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.
Wagga Wagga is an aboriginal name meaning "many crows". Yes, it's a real place. 😊
Could this be simultaneous with the antartica impact, speculated as a continent splitter?
'Shatter cones' - I like the sound of that. Just rolls of the tongue. Shatter cone. Also sounds like something that might happen after a big night out.
Hahaha, this comment got me.
Is there any evidence of gravity anomalies in the area, as there was with the Chixulub impact site?
Is the existence of this impact (site), the reason the Murray river has been raised above the surrounding landscape (Barmah Forest area), or one of the reasons why many rivers to the west of Swanhill don't actually flow into the Murray river? Or is this more about more recent sedimentary deposition and Aeolian sand depositions in the last ice age?
The whole crater would have become a massive lake that would have filled with sediment i would imagine, whats left today would be ghe consequences of that
I think they'll probably find a bigger one in the ocean because the odds are always in favor of an oceanic impact but until then this
There is no oceanic crust older than 200my... so any very ancient impacts have long since been recycled back into the earth
Except that oceanic crust gets destroyed. The oldest is about 200 million years old. I don't know if there is other evidence (like massive tsunamis) of a huge asteroid in the last 200 million years.
Although, we are starting to be able to semi map parts of the plates in the mantle ... apparently they aren't totally destroyed on their way down. THAT would be insane if we were able to identify that.
Do you know roughly what the position of all the plates were located during the suspected impact?
Yup they were similar to todays positioning as Australia has remained largely tectonically stable when this and a few other subsequent events died down.
@OzGeologyOfficial thanks. It's incredible to think that Southeast Asia would have been directly affected by this event as well
Any idea how big the asteroid was
What about your proposed twin impact in central Australia, being actually a single impact and biggest?
It's very possible the Warburton impact events were bigger if they were a single impact. Because they split it muddies their classification.
@@OzGeologyOfficial I know. But, if you are right it is worth looking at. I'm gathering evidence of a combination of strikes up and down the globe from the same event, and events surrounding the time. There are two clusters, one in Australia. The size of the events are important, in relation to subsequent events.
Who said, “What the #### was THAT!?”
The mayor of Deniliquin, 475 million BC, at 9:35am.
Chicxulub better check itself.
Still can't help you
We’re number 1!
Whooo!
We took out 85% of all living organisms!
Wait…. sh*t…….
I was there. I saw it happen. Signed, GOD.
Thanks mate, great video. So now we are known for more than kangaroos hey. 👍🏻❤️ From Western Australia
Kangaroos, gold, and the largest impact event. We sure take the cake! Thanks for watching :)
G'day. On the 26-11-2021 I sent in the Corrodents of this Crater and Never herd back from the geo people, can you tell me when it was found?
The earliest paper I've found dates from 2022. If you spotted it before then, I say bravo! Very well done.
@@OzGeologyOfficial Was that paper from GSA?
I believe they received your info... but no one could find evidence of the new species of rodents you described.
HUDSON BAY💥
What about that calderon north of Greenland?
Great suggestion, I'll definitely add it to the list :)
@@OzGeologyOfficial The Calderon is in the middle of a plate and looks like the mantel could have been penetrated, and like an angled impact in length which would have sprayed water over Siberia, and massive Tsunamis (which I haven't looked for yet, but there is flash frozen Mammoth fields). They have shown that these Mammoths were frozen impossibly quickly, in studies I had presumed a certain electromagnetic effect that can freeze, but also water raining down and evaporating across the landscape would rapidly plunge temperatures below zero. Also, while archeological finds of concentrations of people across the region should have resulted in large civilizations later on, yet there were lower numbers. Though this is obviously caused by the ice sheet, is this involved in the formation of the ice sheet). Also, another thing to look at, is the extent of the iceage in Australia, and how far north the lattitidr of the snow cover extended, as we are surrounded by relatively warm oceans now, which should suppress the latitude extent of coverage.
I have a bunch of very dark green rocks that look like molten glass, could they have been formed by such an impact or are they more likely to have been formed by volcanic processes?
It's hard to say without looking at them and without knowing which region you found them in.
Coburg Victoria.
On my way to Wagga with my shovel.
How close was this to the end of the Ordovician? The Ordovician end3d with a mass extinction historically attributed to continental drift to the South Pole
Texans decides they are going to build a bigger one.
How big was the soviet meteor hit in siberia?
Magnetic evidence looks good. well worth the drilling I think.
Two major extinction events have their bolide impacts in the Antarctic area, is there a story in space to explain this?✌️❤️🇬🇧
I'll take a look into it! Thanks for the suggestion.
You might be interested in looking at the satellite map of Quebec Canada. You might see something interesting.
It looks like Deni's biggest claim to fame (The Deni Ute Muster) may have to move one down on the town signage!
Interesting hypotheses but not supported by conclusive evidence. Until it is, I am going to be skeptical.
Maybe there is no dark side of the moon? The impact with thea may have smashed it in half, what was left could have been used for our moon, to terraform earth , make it hospitable for life with seasons and tidal movement, and the rubble left became asteroid belt.?
The Universe is trying to destroy Australia!
Comet maybe?
Water comet ☄️
Burckle has a 1000+ km under it so Hammerfall got you beat.
Things are just bigger down under lol
Agreed!