Posted on 08/01/2018 10:54:18 AM PDT by ETL
"In this research, there was no evidence of heat coming directly up from the Earth's core to power the surface volcano at Yellowstone," Zhou said. "Instead, the underground images we captured suggest that Yellowstone volcanoes were produced by a gigantic ancient oceanic plate that dove under the Western United States about 30 million years ago. This ancient oceanic plate broke into pieces, resulting in perturbations of unusual rocks in the mantle which led to volcanic eruptions in the past 16 million years."..."
"This evidence was in direct contradiction to the plume model," Zhou said.
In her study, Zhou found the new images of the Earth's deep interior showed that the oceanic Farallon plate, which used to be where the Pacific Ocean is now, wedged itself beneath the present-day Western United States. The ancient oceanic plate was broken into pieces just like the seafloor in the Pacific today. A section of the subducted oceanic plate started tearing off and sinking down to the deep earth.
The sinking section of oceanic plate slowly pushed hot materials upward to form the volcanoes that now make up Yellowstone. Further, the series of volcanoes that make up Yellowstone have been slowly moving, achingly so, ever since. "The process started at the Oregon-Idaho border about 16 million years ago and propagated northwestward, forming a line of volcanoes that are progressively younger as they stretched northwest to present-day Wyoming," Zhou added.
The previously-held plume model was used to explain the unique Yellowstone hotspot track -- the line of volcanoes in Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming that dots part of the Midwest.
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Haha...I’ve moved
To put that in technical terms, it's all the result of a tectonic wedgie.
The volcano came from Oregon/Idaho, so they’ll be on the hook for reparations when it blows, right?
This is Current Year, America! Gotta know who to sue.
Can't sue "Pele". She's only responsible for the area around Hawaii.
"Pele is the goddess of fire, and volcanoes and the creator of the Hawaiian Islands. "
“...started at the Oregon-Idaho border about 16 million years ago and propagated northwestward, forming a line of volcanoes that are progressively younger as they stretched northwest to present-day Wyoming...”
When did Wyoming move northwest of Oregon/Idaho?????
Congratulations! You’re the 10th person on the thread to have caught and pointed out that error!
Why, thank you...
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No. Only with GoreBull Warming is it "case closed", "no doubt about it", "settled science."
I’m pretty sure Pele was a soccer player from Brazil.
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LOL!
30 million years? - Try 4500 years!
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Atlantis is still along the coast of the Iberian peninsula where it has been for about 3000 years.
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When you dream up a theory, you can move things thousands of miles with a pen or keyboard.
Try it, its fun.
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Obviously, you thought wrong. This science was never settled.
Thanks ETL. Last time I pinged the Mob I got a talking to by Scanatonutso.
"This evidence was in direct contradiction to the plume model," Zhou said.
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There is no doubt that current Yellowstone location has had 3 supervolcano eruptions.
Another geophysical anomaly is the earthquake zone around Missouri/Illinois/Kentucky where the monstrous series of earthquakes happened in 1811-12 known as New Madrid. This area is nowhere near a coast either. Of course the Tethys Sea once covered that area, but how many million years ago was that?
The plume theory must have been a consensus.
Historical geology ping....
More readin’ up for me.
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