A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
20 09 2021
20 09 2021
Historique:
received:
05
06
2021
accepted:
30
08
2021
entrez:
21
9
2021
pubmed:
22
9
2021
medline:
22
9
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
We present evidence that in ~ 1650 BCE (~ 3600 years ago), a cosmic airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, a Middle-Bronze-Age city in the southern Jordan Valley northeast of the Dead Sea. The proposed airburst was larger than the 1908 explosion over Tunguska, Russia, where a ~ 50-m-wide bolide detonated with ~ 1000× more energy than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. A city-wide ~ 1.5-m-thick carbon-and-ash-rich destruction layer contains peak concentrations of shocked quartz (~ 5-10 GPa); melted pottery and mudbricks; diamond-like carbon; soot; Fe- and Si-rich spherules; CaCO
Identifiants
pubmed: 34545151
doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-97778-3
pii: 10.1038/s41598-021-97778-3
pmc: PMC8452666
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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Pagination
18632Commentaires et corrections
Type : ErratumIn
Type : CommentIn
Type : ErratumIn
Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s).
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