Missing: a huge chunk of the earth's crust

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 3/5/07 | Stefano Ambrogi

[NormsRevenge]

The Royal Research Ship James Cook sits alongside the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton in an undated file photo. A team of British scientists has set sail on a voyage to examine why a huge chunk of the earth's crust is missing, deep under the Atlantic Ocean -- a phenomenon that challenges conventional ideas about how the earth works. (Classroom @ Sea/Handout/Reuters)

[NormsRevenge]

Progress by the research team can be monitored via a live web link to the ship at:

http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/gg/classroom@sea/JC007/ .

[xcamel]

Much more:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794874/posts

[NormsRevenge]

also posted a couple days ago..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794874/posts

Earth's Crust Missing In Mid-Atlantic ^

Posted by Ma3lst0rm
On News/Activism ^ 03/03/2007 9:52:30 PM PST · 105 replies · 2,916+ views

Science Daily ^ | March 2007 | Cardiff University
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...

[NormsRevenge]

You're quick. ;-)

[America_Right]

STOP PLATE TECTONICS!!!!

I wonder if there are "tectonic offsets" we can buy to help stop this global problem that is probably the "fault" of the USA.

[PetroniusMaximus]

"Asked if the discovery posed a threat to the environment, Murton replied:..."



"... What a bloody idiotic question!"

[P.O.E.]

Separation of the moon from where the Pacific is now, perhaps, with the rest of the crust rushing in to scab over the wound, leaving a gash on the Atlantic side?

[tacticalogic]

Check Hillary's pantsuit.

[highlander_UW]

Clearly this is because of global warming and is all Bush's fault for not signing onto Kyoto. /s

[silentreignofheroes]

I think it's in my front yard,,cost ya' to check..

[rwgal]

I suspect that Bush and Chaney have something to do with it.

Meadow Muffin

[Danae]

In the 80's My husband was an Inertial Navigator on board the USS Grant SSBN 631, a Boomer Sub. He of course had access to the Bathysphere, which measures the depth of the water that the Boat is in. It that EXACT area they watched the thing just DROP. And it didn't come back. Meaning they were in water so deep.... yea.... There is a BIG hole there. REAL big.

[ClearCase_guy]

it defies existing tectonic plate theories of evolution.

Ex-squeeze me?

[DBrow]

Memo to Algor: Earth changes all the time, and we seldom understand why. Live with it.

[hophead]

You have heard of the "hole in the ozone"?
This is the "hole in the crust". Both caused by emissions and pollutants caused by human development. Al Gore is planning a trip down to see for himself. He believes all the Earths waters may be sucked into the hole, after the ice caps melt of course and flood all the coastal areas around the world.
Its just that nobody takes Al serially.

[Fresh Wind]

Have Algore's carbon footprints been seen in the area?

[Founding Father]

Is this a GGG ping????

[RebelBanker]

AlGore's carbon footprint?

[Parley Baer]

Hmmmm, deeper than the Mariana Trench?