Thousands of strange holes have been found off the coast of California, but researchers haven’t figured out how they got there.
Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute were surveying the deep sea floor off Big Sur when they discovered the strange holes.
A computer-generated 3D view of a micro-depression. The image was created using underwater video from an underwater drone. Image: Ben Erwin © 2019 MBARIThousands of smaller holes, known as micro-depressions. have been discovered. Researchers have spotted around 15,000 micro-depressions that are, on average, around three metres across and one metre deep.
“The pockmarks and micro-depressions in this area are both holes in the sea floor that occur in softer sediments, but they are morphologically distinct,” said Ms Lundsten in the statement.
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