We can not only assess the possibility of a Flood due to a meteorite fall, but also more accurately determine the place of this fall based on the consequences that were caused by it.
Climatic data indicate that glaciers prevailed in northeastern Canada (Labrador Peninsula) and Europe before the Flood, while Siberia, Alaska and the Arctic Ocean were in the temperate zone.
If we proceed from the fact that where the pole is, it is colder there (that is, it is there that the formation of glaciers is most likely), then the climatic conditions quite unambiguously indicate that the "antediluvian" North Pole was approximately somewhere between 20 and 60 meridian west longitude and between 45 and 75 north parallel.
For a pole point, the latitudinal component of the force action upon impact of a meteorite, which rotates the Earth's crust around the same axis of its own rotation, has no meaning, and the pole shift occurs under the influence of only the meridional component. Therefore, the fall of the meteorite must have occurred somewhere on the circle passing through the old and modern poles. That is, to have coordinates either in the range of 20o - 60o west longitude, or 120o - 160o east longitude.
Even a cursory glance at the map of the Western Hemisphere shows the complete absence in the mentioned area of at least any traces of the fall of such a large meteorite, which inevitably had to leave behind a solid crater.
But the eastern hemisphere turns out to be more attractive. Here the search area is largely covered by the Pacific Ocean, the bottom topography of which makes it possible to associate with a residual crater.
It should be noted that the variant of a meteorite falling precisely in the Pacific Ocean is remarkably consistent with the nature of the fossil remains in Siberia and Alaska.
The tsunami that came from the south (from the Pacific Ocean - the area where the meteorite fell) moved northward, gradually losing strength. The cold immediately after that (the crust moved sharply to the north), as it were, photographed the overall picture of how the “tired” tsunami parted with its “harvest”.
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But the tectonic map gives the greatest information …
It is clear that a meteorite of this size, shifting the earth's crust as a whole, could well cause faults and cracks in it. Especially when you consider that in the place of the approximate fall of such a "pebble" the thickness of the earth's crust is comparable to the size of the meteorite itself.
The nature of the tectonic plates and faults indicates that the site of the meteorite that caused the Flood may well have been in the Philippine Sea region. It is there that we see a kind of small "fragment" of the crust - the Philippine plate, which is much smaller than any other on our planet. There are no others, with the exception of only the Scottish plate, sandwiched between the South American and Antarctic plates.
However, the origin of the Cattle Slab may well be explained by other reasons. In particular, the fact that such a load on the earth's crust should inevitably cause strong internal stresses in it, which, according to the theory of elasticity, significantly increase near sharp edges or corners. The result of this we can observe in the form of the Scottish Plate, as if sandwiched between the sharp tip of the South American continental plate and the sharp protrusion of the Antarctic (again, continental) plate.
But back to the Philippine Sea, which (together with the nearby islands) itself strongly resembles a crater. This place is characterized not only by the fact that a number of tectonic faults converge to it. As can be seen in the figure, this is the region where the maximum number of earthquake foci is located, and it is here that there are the most deep foci. This is also well associated with the tectonic consequences of the meteorite impact.
Another result of the fall of the meteorite may also be that the region of the Philippine Sea, according to geology, is characterized by the fact that here sedimentary layers of different ages are, as it were, in a mixed state. This refutes the sometimes encountered statement about the absence of meteorite tracks in sedimentary rocks of that period.
“At the bottom of the oceans, inland and marginal seas, there is a strict sequence of precipitation even in those cases that correspond to the period of a possible catastrophe. It is impossible to imagine that the fall of such a huge body into the ocean would not cause mixing of sedimentary rocks. And if a meteorite fell on land, clouds of sand and dust would rise into the air. Blown by the wind towards the ocean, they would sink to the bottom, forming a layer of sediment among the usual deep-sea sediments. But not a single such layer has been found at the corresponding depth under the ocean floor”(Ya. Malina, R. Malinova,“Natural Disasters and Aliens from Space”).
It is this kind of mixing of sedimentary rocks that takes place at the bottom of the Philippine Sea.
Another aspect of the impact of a meteorite on the earth's crust can be the occurrence of a rotational moment acting on the "fragments" of the crust at the site of the meteorite's fall.
Since the displacement of the earth's crust took place in such a way that the point of the old North Pole shifted towards the Atlantic Ocean, the meridional component of the trajectory of the meteorite that fell in the Philippine Sea region should have been directed from south to north. In addition, since the Earth rotates from west to east, the force effect of the falling meteorite with a high degree of probability could have a latitudinal component directed from east to west. Thus, the tangential component of the meteorite impact had (roughly) a direction from southeast to northwest.
As can be seen on the general topography of the bottom of the Philippine Sea, it is remarkably consistent with the above considerations and indicates that the Philippine plate has a slope in the direction from southeast to northwest, which should be the case for a given trajectory of the falling meteorite.
It should be noted that this region is also characterized by the fact that it is, as it were, framed by the deepest depressions on Earth, which completely coincide in location with tectonic faults (read - cracks) in the earth's crust. It is here that the famous Mariana Trench (11022 meters deep) is located.
The conclusion about the fall of a meteorite in the Philippine Sea is also consistent with the fact that it is in the nearby regions (from Japan and China to Australia and Oceania) that mythology calls the rainbow or the Serpent, often identified with each other, as the cause of the Flood. It is clear that in the eyes of primitive peoples, the trail of a falling meteorite could well look like a fiery serpent.
By the way. The Philippine Sea is located in the southeast of China, and the ancient Chinese treatise "Huainan Tzu" says: "The firmament broke, the earth's weights broke off. The sky tilted northwest, the sun, moon and stars moved. The land in the southeast turned out to be incomplete, and therefore water and silt rushed there …"
To further clarify the location of the ancient poles, one can use the assumption that the pyramids of Giza, oriented to the current location of the poles, were built not only after the Flood, but also after a relatively short period of time after it. Moreover, despite all the resistance of official Egyptology, various methods date the age complex in Giza by the 11th millennium BC.
And the Teotihuacan complex (called the "Place of the Gods" by the Aztecs) - located thirty miles northeast of present-day Mexico City, defines the direction to the old pole.
The Teotihuacan Indians not only categorically rejected their own participation in its construction, but also pointed to the gods as the authors of the construction. Moreover, it was from the pyramids of Teotihuacan and with their help, as mythology says, that the gods restored order in the sky after the Flood, which sets a fairly rigid time reference to the period of the cataclysm (XI millennium BC) and allows the "antediluvian" construction of this complex.
The ancient Egyptians were equally categorical about both the Sphinx and the pyramids on the Giza plateau.
According to Aztec legends, it was here, on the central plateau of Mexico, that the Sun and the Moon were born and time began. These legends are reflected in the two main monuments of Teotihuacan - the pyramids of the Sun and the Moon.
The pyramids rise above the surrounding landscape - one is 212 feet high, the other 140 feet”(A. Elford,“Gods of the New Millennium”).
“Just like in Giza, there are three main pyramids in Teotihuacan: the pyramid and temple of Quetzalcoatl, the pyramid of the Sun and the pyramid of the Moon. Just like in Giza, the layout of the building is not symmetrical, as one might expect, with two structures facing each other and the third deliberately shifted to the side, resembling Orion's belt.
Let's leave aside the mass of questions that arise in this connection, which are very intriguing and can form the subject of a separate study. We will only take advantage of the fact that with such a similarity of the two complexes of structures, it would be very logical to admit that both objects (Giza and Teotihuacan) with a very high degree of probability had a certain common goal and a single (or coordinated) authorship.
However, unlike the pyramids of Giza, the structures of Teotihuacan are not as rigidly linked to the geographic grid. At the same time, the structures of Teotihuacan are also rigidly tied to each other and to a certain direction, the whole layout is based on a deviation from the north-south direction by 15.5 degrees
It should be noted that the physical effect of the pyramids is maximal when orienting along the poles, and only the "slipping" of the earth's crust under the influence of a meteorite fall, accompanied by the Flood and a change in all coordinates, led Teotihuacan to its "ridiculous" modern binding to an angle of 15.5 degrees.
Measuring in the direction of 15.5o from Teotihuacan the same distance as Giza is removed from the modern North Pole, we get a point with approximate coordinates 51o west longitude and 71o north latitude
The found pole shift - 2100 km - is close to the lower limit of the range (2-3 thousand km) of preliminary estimates based on climatic changes.
From the calculated position of the old North Pole, it follows that the meteorite fell at a meridian close to 130o east longitude. It is in this area that there is a depression in the center of the Philippine Sea.
