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What is this weird huge mound in Siberia?

boingboing.net • 22 Apr 2026, 19:22

What is this weird huge mound in Siberia?
By Dmitry Semenov - https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/tag/crater/https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2014/02/10/imaggeo-on-mondays-pitter-patter-of-little-paws-in-patomsky-crater/, CC BY 4.0, Link

Deep in the taiga of eastern Siberia stands a 40-meter-high mound of shattered limestone, 160 meters across at its base, with a ring-shaped crown and a smaller peak rising from inside the ring. It weighs roughly a million tons. Locals knew about it long before a Russian geologist named Vadim Kolpakov described it in 1949. — Read the rest

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