"One such large granite body, the 2.62 billion-year-old Wyoming batholith, extends more than 125 miles across central Wyoming." A magma chamber that size, the extent of which and composition of which is preserved in this batholith, is one of many monstrous granite formations that give evidence to the violence of earth's past.
One hopes.
Uh, thermodynamics says the Erf is still cooling, for billions of years.....
Thank goodness for transgendered single-mother bears who are not afraid of discrimination any more. No more “Yogi”.
The correct names are:
Disgi
Whoopgi
Yobian
Cisgi, and
Yodude
Isn't this well known?
From "The seven ages of a planet," 1975, William M. Kaula (1926-2000), Australian-born American geophysicist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
On the basis of almost universally held assumptions concerning the formation of the planets and the isolation of the solar system from outside influences it follows rather plausibly that all terrestrial planets pass in principle through seven stages. The processes involved include the solidification of grains from gas in the condensation stage, planetesimal interactions, and formation processes. Vigorous convection processes lead to the gravitational separation of iron and the outgassing of oceans. Other stages are related to plate tectonics and terminal volcanism. The ultimate stage of quiescence is characterized by a thick lithosphere and no volcanism.
If only leftists would go into an "ultimate stage of quiescence." But I don't think the universe will last long enough for that to happen.
Global warming is killing the volcanoes.
We must save them by crushing SUVs, killing the coal industry, and using George Soros’ railroads whenever possible.
Many are familiar with the Cascadia Subduction zone now in the news, where an ocean floor plate off the Pacific northwest coast is sliding under North America. As it does so, magma forms under the above Cascade mountain ranges with the result that volcanoes, like pimples, erupt from the chamber of magma below.
Those chambers of magma under the mountains are extensive and interconnected across an area of nearly a thousand miles from the Canadian Cascades down to Mt.Lasson in California.
For those who do not know, magma which never reaches topside in an eruption and is later found exposed by erosion, becomes granite (such as the batholith in Wyoming and much of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California.)