Posted on 11/16/2016 8:01:44 AM PST by JimSEA
Scientists analyzing a volcanic eruption at a mid-ocean ridge under the Pacific have come up with a somewhat contrarian explanation for what initiated it. Many scientists say undersea volcanism is triggered mainly by upwelling magma that reaches a critical pressure and forces its way up. The new study says the dominant force, at least in this case, was the seafloor itself -- basically that it ripped itself open, allowing the lava to spill out. The eruption took place on the East Pacific Rise, some 700 miles off Mexico.
"Mid-ocean ridges are commonly viewed as seafloor volcanoes, operating like volcanoes on land," said the study's lead author, Yen Joe Tan, a graduate student at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "We're saying they should actually be viewed as tears in the crust, where magma oozes out." The study appears in the journal Nature this week.
The mid-ocean ridges are mountain chains that run continuously for more than 40,000 miles along the planet's seafloors, like stitching on a baseball. From their centers, they pour out lava. This pushes the seafloor out in opposite directions from the ridges toward the continents.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
“This is Science?”. Of course. How things work are respectable subjects.
#2 The eggheads use all kinds of math and measurements but you boiled it all down : )
Most likely subducted....
I had an old book....circa 1850....it had a huge article on ocean volcanos and the release of methane via vents....pictures and all. Nothing new. In he mean time we have created man made global warming....Follow the Money!!
Yes, follow the money. Every time and with respect to virtually everything, if you follow the gold you get to the answer of your question.
Just like these so-called riots with thousands of paid non-votors...I wondered who would initiate that and that led to Soros. Then I wondered who is being paid off to ignore the riots and not help quell them, again to Soros and gold he spends on the Clintons and Obamas general dissention and discord.
Sigh.
<>Most likely subducted....
LOL...good one
Saw it as a kid in theater when it came out. Scared me half to death.
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