Posted on 12/19/2009 12:12:26 PM PST by Tina Grazier
Earlier Friday afternoon, scientists funded by NOAA and the National Science Foundation released video of an underwater volcano eruption. This eruption is the deepest erupting volcano ever discovered and recorded. The video of this eruption is more than awesome, it is spectacular. In an area near Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, the West Mata volcano was discovered in May. The volcano lies almost 4,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
This link will take you to a longer version of the
explosive deep ocean volcanic eruption video
, that was released to the media, then you will find anywhere else.
The scientists say they found a type of lava they have never seen erupting from an active volcano before. They also witnessed molten lava flowing across the deep-ocean seafloor for the first time ever. That is what the missions Chief Scientist, Joseph Resing, told reporters when he held a news conference explaining their findings. In 2004 the NOAA and it's partners discovered a much shallower eruption in an area called the Mariana Arc, but they knew that the deeper they went and the closer they got to the eruptions, that they would see the kind of eruptions that formed most of the oceanic crust.
What you will see in the video is a spectacular sequence that is close enough to the eruption that you can actually see violent magma degassing and producing bright flashes of hot magma. The Lava gets blown up into the water and then settles back to the sea floor, while the large plugs of lava flow rapidly down the slope. In the foreground you can see the front of the remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) with sampling hoses. To give you the right perspective of what you are watching, the area in view is about 6-10 feet across in an eruptive area approximately 100 yards that runs along the summit.
Two things I need to know. First question is, we know that 71% of the earths surface is water and we know more about the planet Mars than we do about the ocean floor, is it possible that any warming of the oceans surface temperature is caused by the thousands of underwater volcanoes like the one in the video? And my second question is, when will we as a group quit standing around waiting for the modern day Nazi's to throw us into their concentration camps of poverty and misery, and take them these clowns down for good?
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For as close as the cameras appear to be, I expected the video to virbrate from the shock waves of the explosions. Most impressive.
Above ground, in the ocean: stuff nearby is hot, hot...and the boiling caldron of the volcano would cause a hot spot in the ocean.
It will certainly heat the water in ythe immediate vicinity of the volcano.
As for rasing the temperature of the planer, all that stuff is fertile imagination.
So - it won’t rase the temperature of the planer.
RoadTest in a hurry!
There are about 3 million underwater volcanoes...66-80% of all the worlds volcanoes, undersea. 30,000 are thought to be active. There is a 1000mi chain of very active volcanoes under the Arctic. Almost no monitoring is occurring due to expense and scope of the monitoring arena. Are El Ninos in the South Pacific due to warming of the ocean from undersea volcanoes?...seems likely.
Truly amazing...
Obummer will have to negotiate a treaty taxing God for volcanic activity!
Oh dear, that looks like it might be releasing some toxic materials into the fragile oceanic biosphere. I hope the volcano got a permit from the EPA or the UN or whatever.
I read elsewhere a few months ago that there was significant volcanic activity in the Arctic Ocean in recent years.....I can’t give you a source right now, but that would certainly be interesting.
Not enough cabbage?
You ever seen Al?
Yeah, can't have plants growing can we?
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