Upheaval Dome, which is literally translated as an “inverted dome”-a giant rocky education located in the southeast of Utha. This amazing place is also called the "

In 2007, astronauts on board the International Space Station photographed a rocky formation from a bird's eye view, which caused a comparison of a giant dome with a " From the moment of the discovery of an uphivv, there are two theories of its origin, although most scientists believe that it was created by an ancient blow of a meteorite. However, not all experts support this theory.

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The uphole extends 5 kilometers across and reaches 300 meters in height. The origin of this place is incredibly controversial, but the presence of quartz's shock crystals suggests that the dome has grown after the meteorite crashed into the ground about 60 million years ago.

Geologists prefer that the meteorite’s blow was originally left a cup -shaped cavity in the ground. The edges of this hollow were unstable and ultimately collapsed, and then the underlying breeds could rise, filling the void and creating a spine -shaped structure that we observe today.

There are also opponents of this theory, suggesting that the update was formed by a mountain of salt, towering under layers of sandstone of the southeastern Uita. Note that a thick layer of salt that comes from ancient closed seas is located under the Canyonlands National Park. The salt is relatively light and can move in the rocks, just as the ice can move at the bottom of the glacier, according to the service of national parks (NPS).

It is also known that the salt is less dense than sandstone, and therefore it could create a giant " At the same time, the researchers note that the update is hardly a saline bubble covered with sandstone, since erosion probably wiped several layers from the structure over many centuries.

Instead, scientists believe that the center of the dome is considered a rocky base formed under a salt bubble due to the fall of stones in cracks along the edges of the bubble.

Scientists believe that stones probably could slide around the bubble and accumulate under salt, creating a rocky structure that researchers observe today.

If this theory of the salt bubble is true, this would do an upgite the most deeply eroded salt structure in the world. But the discovery of shocked quartz crystals is the last published investigation of the origin of Upheaval Dome. Scientists probably have to continue research in order to finally put an end to this dispute.

Previously, Focus wrote that scientists measured the vibration of red rocks in the state of Utah.