Scientists Find Kilometers-Wide Sand Formations Under the North Sea: 'Never Seen on This Scale Before'

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Scientists have discovered hundreds of gigantic sand structures on the North Sea floor. These so-called "sinkites" are essentially inverted...

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Beneath the North Sea lie kilometers-wide sand structures in which younger layers lie beneath older ones—defying the usual logic of geological layers. A British discovery sheds new light on fluid sand flows deep beneath the Earth's surface. Scientists from the University of Manchester have used seismic data to discover a remarkable geological phenomenon in the North Sea floor: enormous collapsed sand hills, so-called […] Want to know more about …