Posted on 08/12/2011 11:15:45 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
fyi
Algore is deeply saddened.
Not sure how much I will be able to do over the week end.
Good luck!
Off the coast of Oregon.
It’s that Plate Teutonics again. ;-)
69 Responses to Undersea volcanoes might be more common than previously thought
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Alan the Brit says:
So, volcanoes, undersea, erupting, theyre large, spewing all sorts of under ground crap like CO2 (used to be called the Carbon Cycle in my day) & microbes??? There are dozens of them, theyve only just been discovered? Theyre hot giving off large amounts of undersea heat? And here I am thinking Earth sciences are settled science with NOTHING left to discover, ever! I dont suppose they just happen to lie around the West Antarctic Penninsula or could possibly affect the ocean temperatures locally at all, causing the water to be enriched by life that those whales & all the other sea based life forms seem to like so much? ;-)) Anyway it is an interesting post.
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Microbes....who knew!!!!
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Gareth Phillips says:
How much do undersea volcanos contribute to Ocean acidification? If it is a significant amount, how do these animals that thrive near vents and have a calcium carbonate shell survive?
Scientists should not be telling folks that they're inventing the wheel.
We're talking 150 years ago!!
And it’s only 350 miles from Mount Saint Helens.
And it’s only 350 miles from Mount Saint Helens.
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Gary Pearse says:
Undersea volcanoes have been known by geologists for well over a century. Iceland, Hawaii and a host of other islands and terrains are born of undersea vulcanism. I mapped pillowed basalts in the Archean of the Canadian Shield over 50 years ago myself and these are 2.5-3.0 billion years old.
http://bing.search.sympatico.ca/?q=Archean%20age&mkt=en-ca&setLang=en-CA
Click on the images on the right for modern Hawaiian pillows and for ancient precambrian pillows in the Canadian Shield. It is a common thing among scientists these days to be rediscovering well known phenomena and finding them much more prevalent than thought (by themselves). Thought seems to be of declining interest. If they go for the Nobel Prize, I might try to horn in on it for my prior work but of course there will be another 20,000 geologist in line.
Oh, and Alan the Brit:
I dont suppose they just happen to lie around the West Antarctic Penninsula or could possibly affect the ocean temperatures locally at all,
Yes they are:
http://iceagenow.com/Underwater_volcanoes_heating_Antarctic_waters.htm
They were also reported by WUWT some time ago. Indeed the most common rocks on the Western Peninsula are volcanic rocks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Antarctica
Godzilla? (I think that’s pronounced “Gah Zirra”)
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John F. Hultquist says:
A says:
August 11, 2011 at 4:02 am
Image of bubbles of liquid carbon dioxide
Liquid CO2? am i missing something????
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Yes you are. I missed it with respect to salt water so am returning the favor. Here is the link you need:
http://www.standnes.no/chemix/english/phase-diagram-co2.htm
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