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The
Araona
Crater
(also
known
as
the
Iturralde
Structure)
is
a
suspected
crater
from
an
impactor
which
struck
northern
Bolivia
approximately
20,000
years
ago.
The
feature
is
believed
to
have
been
caused
by
a
short
period
comet
striking
at
70
kilometres
per
second
and
splattering
into
the
muddy
alluvial
flood
plain
in
the
Lower
Amazon
jungle.
The
impact
created
a
circular
depression
which
is
now
roughly
...
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The
Rockies
are
fifteen
hundred
kilometers,
or
one
thousand
miles,
to
the
east.
The
cause
must
be
the
tectonic
plate
that
built
these
mountains.
Its
name
is
Farallon.
Farallon
started
off
normally
enough.
It
plunged
beneath
the
North
American
Plate
at
a
forty-five
degree
angle.
This
process
sprouted
volcanoes
to
form
the
Sierra
Nevada
in
what
is
now
California.
Next,
mantle
motions
pulled
North
America
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Farallon is now hidden deep inside the Earth -
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The entire narrated Images video made for Supercomputing 97
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