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Earth's Crust Missing In Mid-Atlantic
Science Daily ^ | March 2007 | Cardiff University

Posted on 03/03/2007 9:52:30 PM PST by Ma3lst0rm

Earth's Crust Missing In Mid-Atlantic

"Scientists have discovered a large area thousands of square kilometers in extent in the middle of the Atlantic where the Earth’s crust appears to be missing. Instead, the mantle - the deep interior of the Earth, normally covered by crust many kilometers thick - is exposed on the seafloor, 3000m below the surface."


Click to Read More About Missing Crust


Could the event that caused this huge section of crust to go missing have been responsible for the change in thermohaline circulation that occurred at the end of the period known as the "Younger Dryas" in which the temperature in Greenland rose 10 degrees in a decade. (Remember there was no industrial pollution at the time)LOL

Click to Read More about Thermohaline Circulation
Click to Read More on the Younger Dryas Period


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atlantis; crust; global; globalwarming; manbearpig; missing; warming
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To: SunkenCiv; All

The crust is missing???? Oh, Dear!

WELLLLL!

Make HARXIST, Soros, Puhlousey and Scuba Teddy to put it back!


81 posted on 03/04/2007 7:42:21 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS WORTHY; GOD ALONE PAID THE PRICE; GOD ALONE IS ABLE; LOVE GOD WHOLLY)
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To: UbonGhostrider
"All of your crusties are belong to us!"


82 posted on 03/04/2007 7:45:28 AM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: BenLurkin

[singing] Kaboom-kaboom, ya-dadadadada-ya-dadadadada...

The usual view (someone expressed it above) is that seafloor spreading is the cause -- one problem being, there should be millions of years of sediment on top of this "new" material.

I don't subscribe to that view. ;')


83 posted on 03/04/2007 7:57:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, February 19, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
"Continental borders cause these currents to develop an almost closed circular pattern called a gyre."

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

I knew our gimbals were a little off kilter, but I had hopes the gyres would settle down.
84 posted on 03/04/2007 7:59:30 AM PST by NicknamedBob (I know where I have gone wrong, and I can cite it, chapter and verse.)
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To: Ma3lst0rm

We're Doomed!


85 posted on 03/04/2007 8:17:14 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Quix
Glitches In The Terrestrial Conveyor Belt
by William R. Corliss
Science Frontiers
Jul-Aug 1998
..."According to the simple plate-tectonic theory, the age of oceanic lithosphere is zero at a spreading oceanic ridge and increases with distance from the ridge. Thus the lithosphere of the central Atlantic, which current palaeogeographical reconstructions assure us began to open no earlier than 120 million years ago, has zero age at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and, supposedly an age of about 120 million years close to the land masses of Africa and South America at the appropriate latitude. Yet, Bonatti and others (Nature, v. 380, p. 518, 1996) have now recovered samples of 140-million-year-old pelagic limestones not even from the edges of the Atlantic but right in the middle of the ocean, close to the ridge. How can this be possible?"...

86 posted on 03/04/2007 8:23:54 AM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, February 19, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Heatseeker
No, No, that was Pantera or was it?
87 posted on 03/04/2007 8:24:11 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (So many geeks, so few circuses.)
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To: SunkenCiv

You mean all the arrogant pontificaters are again proving that man doesn't know as much as he thinks he does?

LOL.


88 posted on 03/04/2007 8:46:48 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS WORTHY; GOD ALONE PAID THE PRICE; GOD ALONE IS ABLE; LOVE GOD WHOLLY)
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To: Ma3lst0rm

Earth's Crust Missing in Mid-Atlantic!

DU Translation: Earths Crust Missing, Millions of square miles are filled with Water! Impeach Bush Now, before its too late!

Daily Kos Translation: Earth's Crust Missing! D*** that Dick Cheney! Signing Kyoto is our only Hope!

EU Translation: Earths crust Missing. Bush Blamed. Chirac expreses dismay that an ocean seperates Europe and America!


89 posted on 03/04/2007 8:53:21 AM PST by Cyclops08
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To: Trailerpark Badass

"Save The Crust!!"

I do. I give it to our dogs.


90 posted on 03/04/2007 8:58:43 AM PST by BikerJoe
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To: SunkenCiv

Crap.

We are doomed and it is my day off.

At least I don't have to clean the garage.


91 posted on 03/04/2007 9:51:05 AM PST by Eaker (You were given the choice between war & dishonor. You chose dishonor & you will have war. -Churchill)
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To: Repeal The 17th

The news is that the crust is missing and the mantle is exposed. This wasn't known previously though it had been speculated that this might be the case.


92 posted on 03/04/2007 10:57:42 AM PST by Ma3lst0rm (At the end of the Younger Dryas period temperatures rose by 10 degrees in a less than a decade.)
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To: Ma3lst0rm

This would never have happened if the election hadn't been stolen!


93 posted on 03/04/2007 10:59:44 AM PST by ducdriver ("Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance." GKC)
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To: norton

Anna whatshername was the last straw. I cancelled my cable, so I don't know anything anymore. It's great!


94 posted on 03/04/2007 11:03:04 AM PST by ducdriver ("Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance." GKC)
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To: mad_as_he$$
No, No, that was Pantera or was it?

Well in that case these scientists had better be careful as we know some fans react violently to these sorts of breakups. Especially if any of them are nicknamed 'Dimebag'.

Actually I was thinking of Pangaea, the group the Dixie Chicks will turn into when they get slightly older and uglier and come out as Lesbians.

I think I'll stop now before I'm banned for thread pollution.

95 posted on 03/04/2007 11:10:04 AM PST by Heatseeker
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To: Red Steel

Thanks for the clarification...


96 posted on 03/04/2007 12:45:02 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (No stinking peanut butter.)
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To: Ma3lst0rm

97 posted on 03/04/2007 12:49:10 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (A Muslim soldier can never be loyal to a non-Muslim commander.)
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To: Ma3lst0rm

I proud to announce that I am now selling Earth Crust Offset Credits at a price that is cutting my own throat.


98 posted on 03/04/2007 12:57:44 PM PST by razorback-bert (Posted by Time's Man of the Year)
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To: SunkenCiv

thanks, saved.


99 posted on 03/04/2007 1:50:56 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free pdf download. Link on my bio page.)
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To: uglybiker

great. Now I'm hungry.


100 posted on 03/04/2007 3:00:07 PM PST by verum ago (The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
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