HISTORIAN'S PREDICTION: The historian of the 19th century Ivan Zabelin was right when he wrote: “Such world-historical cities like Moscow are born in their place not at the whim of any kind and wise prince Yuri Vladimirovich, not at the whim of a happy capricious chance, but by force causes and circumstances of a higher or deeper order.

ANOMAL KOLOMENSKOE: The first settlers of those places where the city now stands, chose Kolomenskoye. This area, although considered one of the anomalous areas of the capital, can have a beneficial effect on people. “Our ancestors settled not on the faults themselves, but in their immediate vicinity,” says Olga Tkachenko, senior researcher at the Russian Physical Society. - Radon gas is released from tectonic faults and cracks. This radioactive element is harmful in large doses, but, like many poisons, beneficial in small doses. He is even able to strengthen the human skeleton, which is built in accordance with the parameters of the golden ratio.

THE FORTRESS WILL RESIST: But the Kremlin stands not at the intersection of faults, but next to them. The fault passes through Red and Manezhnaya Squares, and the fortress itself was built in a safe place, on Borovitsky Hill. In pagan times, by the way, there was a temple there.

CHURCHES ON CRIFICES: Moscow churches were also built on fault lines. Why is not entirely clear. Apparently, the architecture of the temple is capable of converting telluric (terrestrial) radiation, turning it into some kind of positive energy.”

TWO ZONES: The entire territory of Moscow is divided into two large geological zones. The north looks like a dome (it is located a little higher), the south looks like a bowl. The north is considered a more favorable territory for living, although if another earthquake occurs in the Southern Carpathians, it is these areas of the city that will first of all feel its consequences. The fact is that the northern part of Moscow lies in the zone of a global tectonic fault.

Hello dear reader. Never before had I thought that I would have to write these lines. For quite a long time I did not dare to write down everything that I was destined to discover, if it can even be called that. I still sometimes wonder if I'm crazy.

One evening my daughter came up to me with a request to show on the map where and what kind of ocean is on our planet, and since I don’t have a printed physical map of the world at home, I opened an electronic map on the computergoogle,I switched her to the satellite view mode and began to slowly explain everything to her. When I got from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean and brought it closer to show my daughter better, it was like an electric shock and I suddenly saw what any person on our planet sees, but with completely different eyes. Like everyone else, until that moment I didn’t understand what I saw on the map, but then my eyes seemed to open. But all these are emotions, and you can’t cook cabbage soup out of emotions. So let's try together to see what the map revealed to megoogle,and nothing more or less was revealed - a trace of the collision of our Mother Earth with an unknown celestial body, which led to what is commonly called the Great Then.

Look carefully at the lower left corner of the photo and think: does this remind you of anything? I don’t know about you, but it reminds me of a clear trace from the impact of some rounded celestial body on the surface of our planet. Moreover, the impact was in front of the mainland of South America and Antarctica, which are now slightly concave from the impact in the direction of the impact and are separated in this place by the strait, which bears the name of the Drake Strait, the pirate who allegedly discovered this strait in the past.

In fact, this strait is a pothole left at the moment of impact and ending in a rounded “contact spot” of a celestial body with the surface of our planet. Let's look at this "contact patch" closer and more closely.

Zooming in, we see a rounded spot that has a concave surface and ends on the right, that is, from the side in the direction of impact, with a characteristic hill with an almost sheer edge, which again has characteristic elevations that come out on the surface of the oceans in the form of islands. In order to better understand the nature of the formation of this “contact patch”, you can do the same experiment that I did. For the experiment, a wet sandy surface is required. The surface of the sand on the banks of a river or sea is perfect. During the experiment, it is necessary to make a smooth movement with your hand, during which you move your hand over the sand, then touch the sand with your finger and, without stopping the movement of your hand, put pressure on it, thereby raking up a certain amount of sand with your finger and then after a while tear off your finger from the surface of the sand. Have you done? Now look at the result of this simple experiment and you will see a picture completely similar to the one shown in the photo below.

There is another funny nuance. According to researchers, the north pole of our planet in the past has shifted by about two thousand kilometers. If we measure the length of the so-called rut at the bottom of the ocean in the Drake Passage and ending with a "contact spot", then it also approximately corresponds to two thousand kilometers. In the photo, I made a measurement using the programGoogle maps.Moreover, researchers cannot answer the question of what caused the pole shift. I do not undertake to assert with a probability of 100%, but still it is worth considering the question: was it not this catastrophe that caused the displacement of the poles of the planet Earth by these very two thousand kilometers?

Now let's ask ourselves a question: what happened after the celestial body hit the planet on a tangent and again went into the vastness of space? You ask: why on a tangent and why did it necessarily leave, and not break through the surface and plunge into the bowels of the planet? This is also very easy to explain. Do not forget about the direction of rotation of our planet. It was precisely the combination of circumstances that the celestial body gave during the rotation of our planet that saved it from destruction and allowed the celestial body to slip and go away, so to speak, and not burrow into the bowels of the planet. No less fortunate was that the blow fell into the ocean in front of the mainland, and not into the mainland itself, since the waters of the ocean somewhat dampened the blow and played the role of a kind of lubricant when the celestial bodies came into contact, but this fact also had the reverse side of the coin - the ocean waters played and its destructive role already after the separation of the body and its departure into space.

Now let's see what happened next. I think no one needs to prove that the impact that led to the formation of the Drake Strait resulted in the formation of a huge multi-kilometer wave, which rushed forward at great speed, sweeping away everything in its path. Let's trace the path of this wave.

The wave crossed the Atlantic Ocean and the southern tip of Africa became the first obstacle in its path, although it suffered relatively little, as the wave touched it with its edge and slightly turned to the south, where it flew into Australia. But Australia was much less fortunate. She took the hit of the wave and was practically washed away, which is very clearly visible on the map.

Then the wave crossed the Pacific Ocean and passed between the Americas, again hooking North America with its edge. We see the consequences of this both on the map and in the films of Sklyarov, who very picturesquely painted the consequences of the Great Flood in North America. If someone has not watched or has already forgotten, then they can review these films, since they have long been posted for free access on the Internet. These are very informative films, though not everything in them should be taken seriously.

Then the wave crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the second time and with all its mass at full speed hit the northern tip of Africa, sweeping away and washing away everything in its path. This is also perfectly visible on the map. From my point of view, we owe such a strange arrangement of deserts on the surface of our planet not at all to the vagaries of climate and not to reckless human activity, but to the destructive and merciless impact of the wave during the Great Flood, which not only swept away everything in its path, but literally this word washed away everything, including not only buildings and vegetation, but also the fertile layer of soil on the surface of the continents of our planet.

After Africa, the wave swept through Asia and again crossed the Pacific Ocean and, passing through the cut between our mainland and North America, went to the North Pole through Greenland. Having reached the north pole of our planet, the wave extinguished itself, because it also exhausted its power, sequentially slowing down on the continents that it flew into and finally caught up with itself at the north pole.

After that, the water of the already extinct wave began to roll back from the North Pole to the south. Part of the water passed through our mainland. It is this that can explain the hitherto flooded northern tip of our mainland and the Gulf of Finland, abandoned by land, and the cities of Western Europe, including our Petrograd and Moscow, buried under a multi-meter layer of earth that was brought back from the North Pole.

Map of tectonic plates and faults in the Earth's crust

If there was an impact of a celestial body, then it is quite reasonable to look for its consequences in the thickness of the Earth's crust. After all, a blow of such force simply could not leave any traces. Let's turn to the map of tectonic plates and faults in the Earth's crust.

What do we see on this map? The map clearly shows a tectonic fault at the site not only of the trace left by the celestial body, but also around the so-called "contact spot" at the place of separation of the celestial body from the Earth's surface. And these faults once again confirm the correctness of my conclusions about the impact of a certain celestial body. And the blow was of such force that not only demolished the isthmus between South America and Antarctica, but also led to the formation of a tectonic fault in the Earth's crust in this place.

Oddities in the trajectory of the wave on the surface of the planet

I think it’s worth talking about another aspect of the wave’s movement, namely, its non-straightness and unexpected deviations in one direction or the other. We were all taught from childhood to believe that we live on a planet that has the shape of a ball, which is slightly flattened from the poles.

I have been of the same opinion myself for quite some time. And what was my surprise when, in 2012, I came across the results of a study by the European Space Agency ESA using data obtained by the GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer - a satellite for studying the gravitational field and constant ocean currents).

Below I give some photographs of the present form of our planet. Moreover, it is worth considering the fact that this is the shape of the planet itself, without taking into account the waters on its surface that form the world ocean. You can ask a completely legitimate question: what do these photos have to do with the topic discussed here? From my point of view, the most that neither is direct. After all, not only does the wave move along the surface of a celestial body that has an irregular shape, but its movement is affected by the impact of the wave front.

No matter how cyclopean the dimensions of the wave, but these factors cannot be discounted, because what we consider to be a straight line on the surface of a globe that has the shape of a regular ball, in fact, turns out to be far from a rectilinear trajectory and vice versa - what in reality is a rectilinear trajectory on irregularly shaped surfaces on the globe will turn into an intricate curve.

And we have not yet considered the fact that when moving along the surface of the planet, the wave repeatedly encountered various obstacles in the form of continents on its way. And if we return to the supposed trajectory of the wave on the surface of our planet, we can see that for the first time it touched Africa and Australia with its peripheral part, and not with the entire front. This could not but affect not only the trajectory of movement itself, but also the growth of the wave front, which, each time it met an obstacle, was partially cut off and the wave had to start growing again. And if we consider the moment of its passage between the two Americas, then one cannot help but notice the fact that at the same time the wave front was not only truncated once again, but part of the wave turned south due to reflection and washed away the coast of South America.

Approximate time of the disaster

Now let's try to find out when this catastrophe happened. To do this, it would be possible to equip an expedition to the crash site, examine it in detail, take all kinds of soil and rock samples and try to study them in laboratories, then follow the route of the Great Flood and do the same work again. But all this would have cost a lot of money, would have dragged on for many, many years, and it is not at all necessary that my whole life would be enough to carry out these works.

But is all this really necessary and is it possible to do without such expensive and resource-intensive measures at least for the time being, at first? I believe that at this stage, in order to establish the approximate time of the catastrophe, we will be able to make do with information obtained earlier and now in open sources, as we have already done when considering the planetary catastrophe that led to the Great Flood.

To do this, we should turn to the physical maps of the world of various centuries and establish when the Drake Strait appeared on them. After all, earlier we established that it was the Drake Passage that was formed as a result and at the site of this planetary catastrophe.

Below are the physical maps that I was able to find in the public domain and the authenticity of which does not cause much distrust.

Here is a map of the World dated 1570 AD

As we can see, there is no Drake Passage on this map and South America is still connected to Antarctica. And this means that in the sixteenth century there was no catastrophe yet.

Let's take a map from the early seventeenth century and see if the Drake Passage and the peculiar outlines of South America and Antarctica appeared on the map in the seventeenth century. After all, sailors could not fail to notice such a change in the landscape of the planet.

Here is a map dating from the early seventeenth century. Unfortunately, I do not have a more accurate dating, as in the case of the first map. On the resource where I found this map, there was just such a dating "beginning of the seventeenth century." But in this case it is not of a fundamental nature.

The fact is that on this map both South America and Antarctica and the jumper between them are in their place, and therefore either the catastrophe has not happened yet, or the cartographer did not know about what happened, although it is hard to believe, knowing the scale of the catastrophe and that’s it. the consequences to which it has led.

Here is another card. This time, the dating of the map is more accurate. It also dates from the seventeenth century - this is 1630 from the birth of Christ.

And what do we see on this map? Although the outlines of the continents are drawn on it and not as well as in the previous one, it is clearly visible that the strait in its modern form is not on the map.

Well, apparently, in this case, the picture described when considering the previous card is repeated. We continue to move along the timeline towards our days and once again take a map that is more recent than the previous one.

This time I did not find a physical map of the world. I found a map of North and South America, in addition, Antarctica is not displayed on it at all. But it's not that important. After all, we remember the outlines of the southern tip of South America from previous maps, and we can notice any changes in them even without Antarctica. But with the dating of the map this time, there is complete order - it is dated to the very end of the seventeenth century, namely 1686 from the birth of Christ.

Let's look at South America and compare its outlines with what we saw on the previous map.

On this map, we finally see the antediluvian outlines of South America and the isthmus connecting South America with Antarctica at the site of the modern and familiar Drake Strait, and the most familiar modern South America with a curved towards the "contact spot" southern end.

What conclusions can be drawn from all of the above? There are two fairly simple and obvious conclusions:

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   Assuming that the cartographers really made maps at the time that the maps are dated, then the catastrophe occurred in the fifty-year interval between 1630 and 1686.

   
   

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   If we assume that cartographers used ancient maps to compile their maps and only copied them and passed them off as their own, then we can only assert that the catastrophe occurred earlier than 1570 from the birth of Christ, and in the seventeenth century, during the re-population of the Earth, inaccuracies of the existing maps were established. maps and clarifications were made to bring them into line with the real landscape of the planet.

   
   

Which of these conclusions is correct and which is false, to my great regret, I cannot judge, because the available information is clearly not enough for this.

Disaster confirmation

Where can one find confirmation of the fact of the catastrophe, except for the physical maps that we talked about above. I'm afraid to seem unoriginal, but the answer will be quite prorst: firstly, under our feet, and secondly, in works of art, namely in the paintings of artists. I doubt that any of the eyewitnesses could capture the wave itself, but the consequences of this tragedy were quite captured. There were a fairly large number of artists who painted pictures that reflected a picture of terrible devastation that reigned in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the place of Egypt, modern Western Europe and Mother Russia. But it was prudently announced to us that these artists did not paint from nature, but displayed on their canvases the so-called imaginary world they had. I will cite the work of only a few fairly prominent representatives of this genre:

This is what the familiar antiquities of Egypt, which have already become familiar to us, looked like before they were dug out from under a thick layer of sand in the literal sense of the word.

But what was in Europe at that time? Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Hubert Robert and Charles-Louis Clerisseau will help us understand.

But these are far from all the facts that can be cited in support of the catastrophe and which I have yet to systematize and describe. There are also cities covered with earth for several meters in Mother Russia, there is the Gulf of Finland, which is also covered with earth and became truly navigable only at the end of the nineteenth century, when the world's first sea channel was dug along its bottom. There are salty sands of the Moskva River, sea shells and damn fingers, which I dug out in the forest sands in the Bryansk region as a kid. Yes, and Bryansk itself, which, according to the official historical legend, got its name from the wilds, supposedly in the place of which it stands, though it does not smell like wilds in the Bryansk region, but this is the subject of a separate discussion and God willing, in the future I will publish my thoughts on this topic. There are deposits of bones and carcasses of mammoths, the meat of which was fed to dogs in Siberia at the end of the twentieth century. All this I will consider in more detail in the next part of this article.

In the meantime, I appeal to all readers who have spent their time and effort and read the article to the end. Do not be reluctant - express any critical remarks, point out inaccuracies and errors in my reasoning. Feel free to ask any questions - I will definitely answer them!

geological fault, or gap- discontinuity of rocks, without displacement (crack) or with displacement of rocks along the fracture surface. Faults prove the relative movement of earth masses. Large faults in the earth's crust are the result of a shift of tectonic plates at their junctions. Active fault zones often experience earthquakes as a result of the release of energy during rapid sliding along a fault line. Since most often faults do not consist of a single crack or rupture, but of a structural zone of the same type of tectonic deformations that are associated with a fault plane, such zones are called fault zones.

The two sides of a non-vertical fault are called hanging side and sole(or lying side) - by definition, the first occurs above and the second below the fault line. This terminology comes from the mining industry.

Fault types

Geological faults are divided into three main groups depending on the direction of movement. A fault in which the main direction of movement occurs in a vertical plane is called dip fault; if in a horizontal plane shift. If the displacement occurs in both planes, then such a displacement is called fault-shift. In any case, the name is applied to the direction of the fault movement, and not to the current orientation, which may have been altered by local or regional folds or dips.

dip fault

Dip-displaced faults are divided into discharges, reverse faults and thrusts. Faults occur when the earth's crust is stretched, when one block of the earth's crust (the hanging side) descends relative to the other (the sole). The section of the earth's crust, lowered relative to the surrounding fault areas and located between them, is called graben. If the site, on the contrary, is raised, then such a site is called horst. Resets of regional significance with a small angle are called breakdown, or flaking. Faults occur in the opposite direction - in them, the hanging side moves upward relative to the base, while the fracture inclination angle exceeds 45°. During uplifts, the earth's crust is compressed. Another type of fault with a dip displacement is thrust, in it the movement occurs similarly to a reverse fault, but the fracture inclination angle does not exceed 45°. Thrusts usually form slopes, rifts and folds. As a result, tectonic covers and clips are formed. The fault plane is the plane along which the fracture occurs.

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Fault rocks

All faults have a measurable thickness, which is calculated from the size of the deformed rocks, which determine the layer of the earth's crust where the break occurred, the type of rocks that have undergone deformation and the presence of mineralization fluids in nature. A fault passing through different layers of the lithosphere will have different types of rock on the fault line. Long-term dip displacement leads to overlapping of rocks with characteristics of different levels of the earth's crust. This is especially noticeable in cases of slips or large thrusts.

The main types of rocks in faults are the following:

• Cataclasite is a rock whose texture is due to the structureless fine-grained material of the rock.
• Mylonite is a shale metamorphic rock formed during the movement of masses of rocks along the surfaces of tectonic ruptures, during crushing, grinding and squeezing minerals of the original rocks.
• Tectonic breccia - a rock consisting of acute-angled, unrounded rock fragments and cement connecting them. It is formed as a result of crushing and mechanical abrasion of rocks in fault zones.
• Waste mud - loose, clay-rich soft rock, in addition to ultrafine-grained catalytic material, which may have a flat structural pattern and contain< 30 % видимых фрагментов.
• Pseudotachylite is an ultrafine-grained, vitreous rock, usually black in color.

Faults are often geochemical barriers - therefore, accumulations of solid minerals are confined to them. Also, they are often insurmountable (due to the displacement of rocks) for brines, oil and gas, which contributes to the formation of their traps - deposits.

Indication of deep faults

The location of deep faults is determined and mapped (mapped) on the Earth's surface using the interpretation of satellite images, geophysical research methods - various types of seismic sounding of the earth's crust, magnetic survey, gravimetric survey. Geochemical methods are also often used - in particular, radon and helium surveys. Helium, as a product of the decay of radioactive elements that saturate the upper layer of the earth's crust, seeps through cracks, rises into the atmosphere, and then into outer space. Such cracks, and especially their intersections, have high concentrations of helium. This phenomenon was first established by a Russian geophysicist