Hints of cosmic crash at Serpent Mound [View All]

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-- Sifting through rocks snagged from twin boreholes punched deep into the planet's crust, scientists have detected an unearthly substance hidden for eons in Ohio's basement.

And its presence 1,412 feet beneath the forests and farmlands near Serpent Mound in south-central Ohio -- already on par with Britain's Stonehenge and Egypt's pyramids as one of Earth's most mysterious manmade structures -- adds to a puzzle shrouded in legend and lore for centuries.

When scientists peered into the geo-strata that emerged from beneath the mound, they were confronted with pure, weird data. Under their microscope, they saw quartz crystals with flaws like those found at nuclear test sites and in moon rocks brought back by astronauts.

It pointed toward a massive energy burst that left behind telltale traces of a cosmic crash...

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Croplands may cover NW Ohio crater

Cincinnati - Some researchers suspect there is a meteorite crater nearly a half-mile across in Seneca County, where it is veiled under croplands famed for fresh tomatoes and bin-busting soybean crops.

Donald J. Stierman, an earth science professor at the University of Toledo, has been investigating an odd hole that seems to have been poked through the limestone formation that lies beneath most of northwest Ohio.

Stierman said the site is oblong and filled with debris left behind when Ice Age glaciers melted.

"It's hidden. You can't see that it is there," said Stierman, adding that seismic probes and gravity measurements have produced data seeming to reveal that an impact rocked the area more than 100,000 years ago. He said the crater probably was a lake until the Ice Age...

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