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The Cape Verde Islands Meteor Impact

The Cape Verde Meteor Impact
   The Cape Verde Islands are an island group in the Atlantic Ocean located about 800 kilometers ( 500 miles ) West of Senagal and Mauritania in Northwest Africa. The islands are the upper tips of an ancient meteor impact crater of about 340 kilometes (214 miles) in diameter. The meteor came in from the Northwest.
The 1260 km radius circle
   The 1260 km radius circle is noted primarily from the geographical formations along the inland circle line. The kmz file for this circle is HERE. Clicking on this link will either load the file on Google Earth, or download the file to disk, where clicking on that file will load it into Google Earth.
Gorgol River Dam
    At 1260 km to the East there are a series of lines that look as if they could be the limits of the tsunami which occurred when the Cape Verde Impact hit.  This is in Southern Mauritania. This series of lines is similar to, but much larger than, what might be seen on a beach at the high tide line. This line is 400 km inland and the surrounding land is 50 meters in elevation. That gives an idea as to how big this tsunami must have been.

The seismic circle at 1964 km radius
     The seismic circle at 1964 km radius. The kmz file for this circle is HERE.
La Romanche Fracture Zone
     Perhaps the most striking part of this circle is to the South, La Romanche Fracture Zone.
the Mid Atlantic Ridge
      The seismic circle at 2365 km radius cracked the ocean floor and created the Mid Atlantic Ridge.The reason this has not been noted before is that the distortions needed to draw a near spherical object on a flat, 2 dimensional surface, distorts the geography so that a circle cannot be recognized.
the Mid Atlantic Ridge
      The Mid Atlantic Ridge follows the the circle precisely at a radius of 2365 km.
     From depths of 15,000 to 16,000 feet, the mid Atlantic Ridge rises to less that 10,000 feet in depth. This is a mountain range on the ocean floor. This impact cracked the floor of the Atlantic Ocean in this area, and this allows the lava to flow both East and West along this line.
Cape Verde Seismic Circle, 2365 km SE
      This part of the circle, on land, shows numerous geographical features that confirm this as a major seismic event.The .kmz file is HERE!


      There are numerous circles that have been noted. The .kmz files for them are below.     And there may be others if a serious person wished to find them.

There is an interesting cluster of circles, as shown. They start at 6106 km and extend to 6691 km. The .kmz files are below.
CapeVerde16km
CapeVerde170km
CapeVerde1260km
CapeVerde1964km
CapeVerde2365km
CapeVerde2905km
CapeVerde3536km
CapeVerde4476km
CapeVerde5475km
CapeVerde6016km 		CapeVerde6145km
CapeVerde6305km
CapeVerde6444km
CapeVerde6556km
CapeVerde6691km
CapeVerde8348km
CapeVerde10407km
CapeVerde12330km
CapeVerde13385km
CapeVerde14600km
 CapeVerde15733km
CapeVerde16727km
CapeVerde17489km
CapeVerde18490km
CapeVerde19168km
CapeVerde19485km
CapeVerdeAntipode
CapeVerde




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