The International Expedition to Study Meteorite Catastrophes of the historical past is a joint Russian-American project led by Dallas Abbott.
It is to her that the discovery of several similar craters on the planet and the hypothesis about the influence of meteorites on the evolution of the Earth belongs.
This time, scientists intend to dot all the "I" in the origin of the two Russian reservoirs.
The research takes place on Lake Smerdyachye in the Moscow region and Lake Svetloyar in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
The plot starred Vyacheslav Gusyakov, Alexander Makkaveev, Alexey Kiselyov, Dallas Abbott, Patrick McCafferty.
Personnel:
Gusyakov V.K. - Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Mathematical Modeling of Tsunamis of the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS (Novosibirsk). Makkaveev A.N. -- Russian geomorphologist, Candidate of Geographical Sciences, leading researcher at the Geomorphology Laboratory of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Kiselev A.K. - Senior researcher at the Nizhny Novgorod Planetarium, senior lecturer at the K. Minin NGPU. D. Abbott is an American scientist, a specialist in marine geology and geophysics, a researcher at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. P. McCafferty is a British scientist, archaeologist, Doctor of Philosophy.
Calendar: 03.08.2013