Sinkites: Strange bodies of undersea sand that break the laws of geology

Sinkites: Strange bodies of undersea sand that break the laws of geology

Hundreds of "sinkites," all around a kilometer across, are altering the strata in the North Sea. Earth's layers of rock are typically superimposed, or laid one on top of another, meaning that the oldest layers tend to be buried beneath the youngest layers. But researchers recently confirmed that this isn't always the case, as strange bodies of sand can cause stratigraphic inversion — the interruption of the ordinary order of rock layers — at the…