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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Here's some context. It appears that the land mass might be moving westward from the hot spot.
So, where did the “new islands” go - comparing the 1942 map and today’s satellite image of the same area?
Let’s warm up the planet faster then.
That would solve the problem of Bergoglio.
Just saying
This thing is really poorly written...couldn’t get past the “rumored” part.
Oh, does it ever!
It’s Mother Nature telling Italy she’ll take care of all the immigrants.
Caused by ‘global warming’, right?
Last major eruption, pre-history, produced about 90 cubic miles of ash.
Absolutely.
Human produced Global Warming, in fact.
That's where the Chaîne des Puys produced a volcanic eruption back around 6000 years ago.
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had to be 4500 years ago more or less. There were no volcanoes 6000 years ago, the Earth was new and “very good,” without sin.
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Rumors from “Sources.”
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“The UN will stop this if the US pays its back obligations..”
It was proved false that the U.S. was in arrears to the UN. There was a GAO Report on it that detailed the fact that we had actually overpaid the UN some $6 billion.
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