The Destructive Baltic Sea Tsunami; Caused by a Meteor Impact?

Approximately 3200 years ago, a 20.5 meter or 67.3 foot tall tsunami impacted the entire west coast of Sweden. It then traveled across the Baltic Sea, going on to strike Poland, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia. It even swept ashore a crewed bronze age era boat which was memorialized at the time in a stone carved mural. There have been some recent scientific papers which suggest a link between this unusual tsunami and the formation of the Kaali Craters in Estonia. So, did a meteor impact cause the Baltic Sea’s largest Holocene epoch tsunami? This video will attempt to answer that question. Thumbnail Photo Credit: Unsplash, , CC0 1.0 license, #. This was mirrored vertically (left became right & right became left), overlaid by text, then overlaid with GeologyHub made graphics (the image border and the GeologyHub logo). Estimates on asteroid diameter, velocity, tnt energy equivalent, generated earthq
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