Posted on 12/22/2016 11:17:19 AM PST by blam
BEC CREW
22 DEC 2016
It's dangerously close to hitting a critical pressure point.
A 12-km wide cauldron that forms a vast supervolcano on the coast of Italy is showing signs of reawakening after almost 500 years of inactivity.
Not only is this site rumoured to be responsible for the extinction of the Neanderthals, its got 500,000 people living around it right now, and researchers say it appears to be approaching a critical pressure point that could lead to an eruption.
You might imagine a supervolcano as like a regular volcano, only supersized, rising up out of the ground and puffing whirls of menacing smoke from its gaping maw.
But in reality, supervolcanos are extensive fields of volcanic activity, formed when a volcano ejects so much magma from its centre, it collapses in on itself, leaving behind a vast crater, and a landscape littered with geysers, hydrothermal activity, and sulphuric acid.
Think Yellowstone, where lava eruptions and swelling steam vents make up a constantly bubbling, otherworldly landscape.
Campi Flegrei - or "burning fields" in Italian - is another extensive volcanic area, located to the west of Naples, Italy.
Boasting 24 craters and large volcanic edifices, mostly hidden under the Mediterranean Sea, this ancient 'caldera' - or cauldron-like depression - formed 39,000 years ago, as part of the biggest eruption Europe has seen in the past 200,000 years.
Since its formation, Campi Flegrei has only had two major eruptions - 35,000 years ago and 12,000 years ago - and a smaller eruption that occurred in 1538.
But when we say "smaller", its all relative, because the 1538 eruption lasted for eight days straight, and spewed so much material into the surrounding area, it formed a new mountain, Monte Nuovo.
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(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
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We had four years without summer when Pinatubo blew its cork.
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What did it do 500 years ago?
Got shot down.
Liberals proclaim further proof of man made climate change...
“rumored to be responsible for the extinction of the Neanderthals”
I thought the Neanderthals were done in by unchecked immigration from africa
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Ever been to central France?
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Bad link.
I can’t access that link, but I’ve seen the Pompeii Time Lapse before, and it’s amazing - very disturbing, but an incredible accomplishment.
Relieving the pressure is precisely what a volcano does.
Kind of puts things into perspective about how inconsequential anything Man does is, compared to Nature.
Not to self, get the freeze dryer machine for Christmas.
bump
The trouble you’re expecting never happens; it’s always something that sneaks up the other way.
- George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
OMG, BREAKING NEWS! IMMINENT IRRUPTION (possible).
VASTLY more research dollars needed IMMEDIATELY!!!~
or we’re all gonna DIE!
Thanks, good vid!
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