A Giant Blob of Hot Rock Is Building Up Under America's Northeast

sciencealert.com ^ | 6/24/2018 | peter dockrill

[bitt]

Something is rising from the depths.

A vast mass of hot rock is welling up underneath Vermont and extending into other subterranean regions below New England, new research shows.

Scientists used a network of thousands of seismic measurement devices in the largest geological study of its kind, detecting the enormous blob upwelling under Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts – and possibly elsewhere.

[Retvet]

To bad its not under New York.

[Lopeover]

Thinking the earth has her own way of controlling population. It does need global elitest depopulation plans.

[oldvirginian]

“A jillion tons of magma say “You think that’s something? Watch this!”

Planet earth says “hold muh beer.”

[Buckeye McFrog]

Tonight's feature on Monster Chiller Horror Theater is The Hot Magma Blob That Swallowed Roxbury starring Nick Adams, Richard Denning and Anne Francis.

[Bob Ireland]

And then there is the Yellowstone super volcano. Maybe that is why they will consider moving DNC HQ to that asteroid...

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.google.com/search?q=fault+line+under+manhattan

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Robert A Cook PE.

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[aces]

rotfl,

[gleeaikin]

I thought that Campi Flegrei was a left over from an earlier large event, like the Valley of the Ten Thousand Smokes, or Yellowstone Park were leftovers from previous large events like Katmai for 10k Smokes.

[gleeaikin]

Remember, the Palisades cliffs of New Jersey facing New York City are a massive basaltic intrusion from millions of years ago.

[SunkenCiv]

I know how the northeast feels, as I’ve gotten older, I can’t even pull on a heavy door without the possibility of uncontrolled farting.