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Has the plug been pulled out of the Atlantic? Crack on Earth's crust...
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 20 June 2013 | Nicola Rowe

Posted on 06/20/2013 9:50:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Scientists have discovered a crack in the Earth's crust that threatens to pull North America and Europe closer together and cause the Atlantic Ocean to vanish in about 220 million years.

Researchers at the University of Lisbon have created a new map of the seafloor, off the coast of Iberia -- the region of Europe that includes Portugal and Spain -- and the results show the beginnings of a new subduction zone.

National Geographic reported on the new data surrounding the subduction zones, and what could happen when the tectonic plates -- the large rock slabs that make up the Earth's crust -- crash into one another.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: atlantic; catastrophism; geology
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To: SunkenCiv

Oh the huge manatee! I have to start worrying about this immediately, only 220 million years? Global warming will have to wait! I cant focus on two environmental disasters at the same time.


21 posted on 06/20/2013 11:25:54 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: SunkenCiv

[[Has the plug been pulled out of the Atlantic? Crack on Earth’s crust...]]

I hope so- I’d love to pave the ocean floor and turn it into a huge parking lot


22 posted on 06/20/2013 11:52:39 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: SunkenCiv

I just love these satire articles.


23 posted on 06/21/2013 12:17:28 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: SunkenCiv

Great news!
in 220 million years I’ll be able to drive to Europe and skip the TSA.


24 posted on 06/21/2013 12:25:55 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: SunkenCiv

Will that make a Europeam vacation cheaper?


25 posted on 06/21/2013 12:31:23 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Jesus will have come back long before then and restored the earth. sorry to dissapoint everyone.

I recall far more episodes of God ravaging the ecology than of Him repairing it.

26 posted on 06/21/2013 12:32:39 AM PDT by Teacher317 (Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast)
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To: Vendome

LOL!!


27 posted on 06/21/2013 12:34:51 AM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: Teacher317
I recall far more episodes of God ravaging the ecology than of Him repairing it.

Maybe. But to create, one must first destroy. Which is why God created the virus.

28 posted on 06/21/2013 12:52:49 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: SunkenCiv

there’s a hole in the bottom of the sea?
someone put a log in the hole in the bottom of the sea!


29 posted on 06/21/2013 12:53:29 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: volunbeer

Global climate change, what can’t it do?


30 posted on 06/21/2013 1:02:17 AM PDT by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific)
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To: silverleaf

But

There’s a knot on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea.


31 posted on 06/21/2013 1:21:35 AM PDT by wolfpat (Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. -- Cicero)
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To: SunkenCiv

Dang. There goes global warming coastal inundation as a bogeyman to scare everybody into draconian socialist schemes.

On to the next “problem” requiring draconian socialist schemes, I guess. Sigh. A progressive’s work is never done, lol.


32 posted on 06/21/2013 1:28:25 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Hardraade

I suspect he will try a gerbil..


33 posted on 06/21/2013 2:04:06 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: volunbeer

California is on the Pacific Ocean.

I guess the same magic machine that would break California off from the continent could also shrink it so it go pass through the Panama Canal./s


34 posted on 06/21/2013 2:10:01 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (California does not have a money problem, it has a spending problem.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Just curious-—what will he restore the earth to? What is HIS favorite geologic time?


35 posted on 06/21/2013 2:40:42 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
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To: volunbeer; CitizenM; Mastador1; RegulatorCountry

Amendment Would Give Amnesty/Legal Status to Any Would-Be Immigrant Displaced by ‘Climate Change’
Breitbart’s The Conversation | June 20, 2013 | Ace of Spades
Posted on 06/21/2013 3:22:16 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3033891/posts


36 posted on 06/21/2013 4:00:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Welcome back, Pangia.


37 posted on 06/21/2013 4:21:46 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: SunkenCiv

38 posted on 06/21/2013 4:24:43 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: wolfpat

Careful froggie , sitting on the knot on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea.


39 posted on 06/21/2013 4:46:22 AM PDT by Vinnie (][p)
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To: SunkenCiv

Moving all that mass will have the earth vibrating like a poorly balanced tire - future generations will be on regular Dramamine doses.


40 posted on 06/21/2013 4:48:18 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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