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Zhizn Zemli [Life of the Earth] 47, no 4

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10.29003/m4982.0514-7468.2025_47_4/472-490

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Kokovkin, A.А.

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asteroid, astrobleme, global Holocene activation, orogeny, rifting, shear tectonics, fluid dynamics, volcanism, erosion, abrasion.

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Kokovkin, A.А., “Astroblemes as indicators of the Holocene activation onset”, Zhizn Zemli [Life of the Earth] 47, no 4, 472–490 (2025) (in Russ., abstr. in Engl.). DOI: 10.29003/m4982.0514-7468.2025_47_4/472-490.

Astroblemes as indicators of the Holocene activation onset

The article continues the author’s series of publications on global Holocene activation. The research was carried out on the interface between geology and meteoritics within the context of the Earth pulsating expansion model, whereby the Earth began to evolve in a compression mode in the late Pleistocene. At the Pleistocene – Holocene boundary, the Earth was subjected to a massive pummeling of large asteroids and changed its orbit, moving closer to the Sun. From this time on, the compression increased sharply, crustal processes intensified causing an upsurge of continental orogeny, and global transgression intensified. Astroblemes are considered as constituents of the host geological systems. They are indicators of the onset of the Holocene activation. Evidence is presented of most of the known astroblemes being formed at the Pleistocene – Holocene boundary by a single stream of asteroids. Using astroblemes in South Africa and Eurasia as examples, their relationships were studied with Holocene orogenic systems – with their tectonics, volcanism, fluid dynamics, and drainage network. The global Holocene activation is shown to significantly change the natural environment, thereby triggering an unprecedented explosion in the development of human civilization.

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  2. Kokovkin, A.A., “The phenomenon of global Holocene activation on the examples of the newest structures of East Asia, the Middle Volga region and Namibia: indicators, problematic issues and the nature of the phenomenon”, Vestnik DVO RAN 2, 5–41 (2023) (in Russian).
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References

  1. Kokovkin, A.A., Evolution of the Newest Outskirts-Continental Structure of Namibia and the Structure-Antipode of the East of Asia. Experience of Interdisciplinary Research on a Synergetic Basis (Saratov: Privolzhskaya Book Chamber, 2014) (in Russian).
  2. Kokovkin, A.A., “The phenomenon of global Holocene activation on the examples of the newest structures of East Asia, the Middle Volga region and Namibia: indicators, problematic issues and the nature of the phenomenon”, Vestnik DVO RAN 2, 5–41 (2023) (in Russian).
  3. Kokovkin, A.A., “Caves as an Indicator of Holocene Activation”, Earth’s Life 47 (2), 176–191 (2025) (in Russian).
  4. Larin, V.N., Our Earth (Origin, Composition, Structure, and Development of the Primitive Hydride Earth) (Moscow: Agar, 2005) (in Russian).
  5. Milanovsky, E.E., “Pulsations and expansion of the Earth – a possible key to understanding its tectonic development and volcanism in the Phanerozoic”, Priroda [Nature] 7 (755), 22–34 (1978) (in Russian).
  6. Mikheeva, A.V., Complete catalog of impact structures of the Earth (Novosibirsk: IVMiMG SB RAS) (sbras.ru) (in Russian).
  7. Feldman, V.I., “Astroblemes – starry wounds of the Earth”, Soros Educational J. Earth Sciences (1999) (http://www.pereplet.ru/obrazovanie/stsoros/845.html) (in Russian).
  8. Vogelsang, R., Richter, Y., Jacobs, Z., et al., “New excavations of Middle Stone Age deposits in the Apollo 11 Rock Shelter, Namibia: Stratigraphy, Archaeology, Chronology, and the Environment in the Past”, J. of African Archaeology 8 (2), 185–218 (2010).
  9. Bayaraa, Т., Nikitin, A.N., Tselmovich, V.A., Saltykovsky, A.Ya., Ormd, J., Ivankina, T.I., Komatsu, G., Ormo, G., “Complex analyses of the impact origin of Tsenkher structure (Mongolia)”, Book of Abstracts of the International Conf. «Stress and Texture Investigations by Means of Neutron Diffraction». June 6–9, 41–42 (2011).
  10. Grunert, Nicole, Namibias faszinierende Geologie: ein Reisehandbuch (Gottingen: Hess, 1999. Auflage, 2005).
  11. Miller, Mc G., “Upper Palaeozoic to Cenozoic”, The Geology of Namibia 3 (2008).
  12. Nigmatova, S.A., et al., “Jurassic lake of Karatau: the present state of the unique location of the fossil flora and fauna”, Proc. of the Natural Academy of sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Series of ecology and technical sciences 3, 10–23 (2017).