Jakarta –
Asteroid that hit the Earth played a role in the formation of the Moon and volcano. The impact of the asteroid also had a devastating impact on the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Various studies have shown a link between asteroid collisions, increased volcanic eruptions and mass extinction events.
ITB volcanologist Dr. ing. Ir. Mirzam Abdurrachman, ST, MT Live Eureka! “Secret Volcanoes”, said Monday (10/17/2022), about 4.5 billion years ago an object grazed the Earth and took part of its mass.
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“The mass (Earth) that was taken was therefore the forerunner of the formation of the Moon. When the Earth was tampered with, the tectonic plates started moving on the Earth and volcanoes have been born on Earth ever since,” he explained. .
Another similar event, no less devastating, also occurred 65 million years ago. The asteroid collisions have triggered various disasters that have caused the extinction of dinosaurs and other living things.
“When the meteor hit the Earth, the dinosaurs (meteors) crashed and grazed took part of the mass (Earth), so volcano he started growing and working, “Mirzam said.
Evidence of this global catastrophe some 65 million years ago is buried in layers scattered across the Earth. In understanding the relationship between catastrophic volcanic events, meteorite impacts and extinctions, time will tell.
“We can easily find out now, but to get this answer, scientists need about two and a half centuries because the theory of plate tectonics was only discovered in 1912 by a German meteorologist Alfred Wegener,” he said.
Alfred Wegener first proposed this theory in 1912, then it was formally published in 1915 and was accepted by the public only in the 1960s.
“Exactly it took about 40 years for the theory to be accepted, so we can understand how volcano it can be born and spread on Earth, “Mirzam said.
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