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The deep roots of catastrophe
Space Daily ^
| 11 February, 2013
| Staff
Posted on 02/12/2013 5:00:44 AM PST by Errant
A University of Utah seismologist analyzed seismic waves that bombarded Earth's core, and believes he got a look at the earliest roots of Earth's most cataclysmic kind of volcanic eruption. But don't worry. He says it won't happen for perhaps 200 million years. "What we may be detecting is the start of one of these large eruptive events that - if it ever happens - could cause very massive destruction on Earth," says seismologist Michael Thorne, the study's principal author and an assistant professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah.
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TOPICS: Reference; Science; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; core; earth; earthquakes; volcanoes
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To: Errant; machogirl
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02/14/2013 3:24:46 PM PST
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winoneforthegipper
("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
To: winoneforthegipper
Agree. Isn't there an ancient and strange looking mountain range in that area?
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02/15/2013 8:30:58 AM PST
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Errant
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