The sombrero uplift (red center) is located in the middle of an active magma system (red border).
A numerical model used to investigate a ballooning diapir in the earth's crust. Colors denote temperature.
To: Red Badger
2 posted on
10/11/2012 1:44:52 PM PDT by
Doctor 2Brains
(If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
To: Red Badger
When the lid blows: We don’t have ANY money for you, we’re already broke.
3 posted on
10/11/2012 1:49:42 PM PDT by
The Sons of Liberty
("Get that evil, foreign, muslim, usurping, gay bastard out of MY White House!" FUBO!)
To: Red Badger
The blob is called a diapir.
They couldn’t have found a better word for it, or just used blob? They had to have a scientific term?
8 posted on
10/11/2012 1:54:16 PM PDT by
wastedyears
(The First Law of Heavy Metal: Not all metal is satanic.)
To: Red Badger
Uh oh. Ballooning diapers are never good.
9 posted on
10/11/2012 1:54:33 PM PDT by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
To: Red Badger
Isn’t that area known as a hotbed of islamic activity?
11 posted on
10/11/2012 1:56:23 PM PDT by
fso301
To: Red Badger
That is just racist, amigo
15 posted on
10/11/2012 2:00:20 PM PDT by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: SunkenCiv
16 posted on
10/11/2012 2:00:52 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(Is it just me, or is Hillary! starting to look like Benjamin Franklin?.................)
To: Red Badger
a unique geological phenomenon in the shape of a Mexican hat that the researchers have described as the "sombrero uplift"
20 posted on
10/11/2012 2:05:46 PM PDT by
lonevoice
(Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
To: Red Badger
Send a woman there. We know what to do with diapers.
25 posted on
10/11/2012 2:08:08 PM PDT by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Red Badger
Altiplano becomes Alti-Volcano in one big bang....
26 posted on
10/11/2012 2:10:03 PM PDT by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Red Badger
I don’t like to panic anyone... but I had a dream a few weeks ago about massive ruptures in the earth spewing lava.
It was disturbing and I thought it was really weird at the time.
But then I forgot about it.
28 posted on
10/11/2012 2:14:24 PM PDT by
Berlin_Freeper
(Winning is Everything.)
To: Red Badger
I've remember reading about this, and examining the physical location. It's a remarkably small area, though there are other much, much larger anomalies south of the equator along the long axis of South America. The relatively new rise and active condition of the Andes, themselves, of course... tied together and looking like the stitching on a baseball, when you count all the Americas, including Antarctica.
Look on NASA orbital schematics and you will see outlined over SE S.A. and the South Atlantic something called "SAA," the South Atlantic Anomaly, where Earth's blessed magnetic field lines strangely dip in altitude for no known reason.
The described phenomena might be a deep hot spot, a column of magma slipping under S.A. like Yellowstone or Hawai'i.
31 posted on
10/11/2012 2:28:22 PM PDT by
Prospero
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33 posted on
10/11/2012 2:29:58 PM PDT by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: Red Badger
36 posted on
10/11/2012 2:52:29 PM PDT by
SgtHooper
(The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
To: Red Badger; Errant; machogirl
38 posted on
10/11/2012 3:20:02 PM PDT by
winoneforthegipper
("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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