Tui
Jedi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL8uvpnUJLU
Apart from the scientists investigating Siberia's many water-filled holes (300,000 in remote Yamal) and hundreds of lakes, the film also gives a fascinating look at the daily life and traditions of the nomads living in this beautiful, drenched and harsh corner of the world.
The film shows newly formed deep craters with its walls of rock and earth constantly crumbling and falling into the deep gaping holes, and shows how quickly they fill up with water to become lakes. Landscapes here can change dramatically within one year. Trekking on their customary routes with their reindeer herds, the nomads sometimes discover that a river had in the meantime completely changed its course or that one of the lakes on the usual route is simply not there anymore - sometimes these changes happen in front of their eyes, as described by one of the women. One deer breeder explained that someone can pitch his tent close to yours and the next morning your neighbour has disappeared along with his tent into a newly formed hole. Another man took the investigating scientists to see mammoth bones that came up from the scary "underworld" to the surface when ground welled up from beneath.
The scientists say that the earth opens up because of expelled gas - they are not caused by meteorites. The earth here sure seems very unstable, what with old volcanoes lurking underneath your feet and the ground constantly soggy with melting ice and mud or freezing over or suddenly sinking away.
See also other posts about holes in Russia and lakes that suddenly disappear, for example Siberia's post "Unique Lake in Russia Quickly Disappearing: Sinkhole?"
at https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,35316.msg505450.html#msg505450, and 1984's post "Giant 262ft sinkhole (or crater?) opens up suddenly in Yamal Peninsula Russia" at https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,35418.0.html, and Pashalis' quote at the latter where the Cs answer a question about the holes that open up in Siberia:
Session 26 July 2014
Apart from the scientists investigating Siberia's many water-filled holes (300,000 in remote Yamal) and hundreds of lakes, the film also gives a fascinating look at the daily life and traditions of the nomads living in this beautiful, drenched and harsh corner of the world.
The film shows newly formed deep craters with its walls of rock and earth constantly crumbling and falling into the deep gaping holes, and shows how quickly they fill up with water to become lakes. Landscapes here can change dramatically within one year. Trekking on their customary routes with their reindeer herds, the nomads sometimes discover that a river had in the meantime completely changed its course or that one of the lakes on the usual route is simply not there anymore - sometimes these changes happen in front of their eyes, as described by one of the women. One deer breeder explained that someone can pitch his tent close to yours and the next morning your neighbour has disappeared along with his tent into a newly formed hole. Another man took the investigating scientists to see mammoth bones that came up from the scary "underworld" to the surface when ground welled up from beneath.
The scientists say that the earth opens up because of expelled gas - they are not caused by meteorites. The earth here sure seems very unstable, what with old volcanoes lurking underneath your feet and the ground constantly soggy with melting ice and mud or freezing over or suddenly sinking away.
See also other posts about holes in Russia and lakes that suddenly disappear, for example Siberia's post "Unique Lake in Russia Quickly Disappearing: Sinkhole?"
at https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,35316.msg505450.html#msg505450, and 1984's post "Giant 262ft sinkhole (or crater?) opens up suddenly in Yamal Peninsula Russia" at https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,35418.0.html, and Pashalis' quote at the latter where the Cs answer a question about the holes that open up in Siberia:
Session 26 July 2014
