Mysterious Mud Waves

Poor baffled scientists, if only they took a few hours to read Allan & Delair...

Along parts of the Arctic Ocean floor, currents have driven mud into huge piles, with some "mud waves" nearly 100 feet across.

Around the world, strong currents can produce these features, piling up sediments from the ocean floor to create a wavy surface, but researchers had thought the Arctic was too calm to produce the mud waves.

[hint: global cataclysm]

The mud waves, however, were an unexpected surprise. The scientists aren't sure what formed them.

"The mud waves could be caused by tidal fluctuations," said expedition scientist Leonard Polyak of Ohio State University. "But that’s really just speculation at this point."

[hint: global cataclysm!]