World’s second-deepest hole, recently uncovered by scientists. Read about the fascinating details of this groundbreaking find, its potential implications for scientific research, and the unprecedented insights it offers into the Earth’s geology and history.
Nature is superior literally there are lots of things in the world that surprise you and still, these new things are discovered and these natural things give us an idea of how our history is.
Do you know? The bottomless blue hole in the world at 300.89 meters (987 feet) deep is in the South China Sea (Asia), which is found by fishermen and recreational divers in 2016.
but I know you have a curiosity to know about the World’s second-deepest hole in the world and where it is.
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Where is the World’s Secound-Deepest Hole situated?
The world’s second-deepest hole has been discovered in Mexico’s Chetumal Bay, off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.
How Deep it is?
According to scientists, the massive hole is approximately 900 feet deep and 147,000 square feet in size.
The Dragon Hole, also known as Longdong, is a large marine cavern formed on a bank or island of carbonate bedrock.
Why did Scientists say this astroid is a Dinosaurs Killer?
as we all know that billions of years ago dinosaurs lived on the earth and you read in school our teachers said they were extinct from the earth caused by the asteroid which a strike on the earth at that time, our scientists also said the same thing.
But there was always a question in our mind that if this meteorite had fallen on the earth, then its mark or crater would be somewhere and this has almost been confirmed, A meteorite must have fallen at this place, due to which the dinosaurs came to an end.
Scientists now believe that the giant crater was formed by an asteroid that caused the Cretaceous-tertiary dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago in short a Dinosaurs Killer astroid.
When it was found?
According to our scientists from El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (Ecosur), a public research center discovered the blue hole in September, but its data was only recently released.
Some other information
According to the news, the hole mouth is just under 5 meters below sea level, where the water temperature and salinity gradients are significant.
According to the study published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, the Chetumal deep hole was named Taam Ja’, which means “deep water” in the Mayan language. The overall largest blue hole, however, is located 100 kilometers off the coast of Belize.
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According to scientists, the south-eastern coast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula is rich in geology. The researchers are now eager to study and analyze the water’s microbial diversity.
These Blue holes are common on shallow carbonate platforms like the Bahamas Banks, as well as on and around the Yucatán Peninsula, like the Great Blue Hole at Lighthouse Reef Atoll in Belize.
According to some rumors some countries want to drill this hole to find any type of natural resources, I believe that they want to do such things for their own benefit because they would think that in this hole he can find minerals, etc. of that meteorite, that’s why he wants to do this.
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