Siberian Times : ‘What we saw today is striking in its size and grandeur. 'These are the colossal forces of nature that create such objects.’Professor Vasily Bogoyavlensky, of the Russian Oil and Gas Research Institute in Moscow, told Vesti Yamal TV news: "This object is unique.
It carries a lot of additional scientific information, which I am not yet ready to disclose.""This is a subject for scientific publications," he continued. "We have to analyse all this, and build three-dimensional models."He added that he thought drilling for oil and gas in the region could be contributing to the unprecedented eruptions.In addition, he pointed out the danger if one of these hydrolaccoliths, as scientists call them, erupted beneath a major gas.
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