Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/12/2010 10:44:11 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
What do you ride?
I ride a 93 FXR Superglide!
What could possibly go wrong? (I see a movie in the making.)
What built Shatsky Rise, a mantle plume or ridge tectonics?
A quick 1 page read....
World's deepest undersea vents discovered in Caribbean
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The vents, known as black smokers, were located 5,000m (3.1 miles) down in the Cayman Trough.
The volcanic chimneys, which spew out water hot enough to melt lead, were caught on film by a British-led team.
Marine biologist Dr Jon Copley said: "Seeing the world's deepest black-smoker vents looming out of the darkness was awe-inspiring."
He added: "Super-heated water was gushing out of their two-storey-high mineral spires, more than three miles beneath the waves."
Expedition leader Doug Connelly said: "We hope our discovery will yield new insights into biogeochemically important elements in one of the most extreme naturally occurring environments on our planet."
The team, led by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton, is sailing across the Caribbean and the Southern Ocean on the scientific research vessel the James Cook.
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 It was like wandering across the surface of another world  Bramley Murton, scientist
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Previously, the deepest smokers were found in the Ashadze vent field in the mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 4,040m.
The discovery was made with the help of two deep-sea vehicles.
Firstly, a robotic submarine called Autosub6000 enabled the team to map the seafloor of the Cayman Trough in fine detail. Then a vehicle called HyBIS equipped with hi-definition cameras, was lowered down and captured detailed images of the smokers.
OK, that does it - sic the EPA on it.
Will throw massive moisture into the air. What happens if
its winter in the US when that happens.??
Guess we get lots of snow somewhere.
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The mid-Cretaceous (~125-85 Ma) and early Paleogene (~60-45 Ma) were characterized by some of the most equable climates of the Phanerozoic and are among the best known ancient "greenhouse" climate intervals. In addition, these intervals contain some of the most abrupt and transient climatic changes in the geologic record, including the late Paleocene thermal maximum (LPTM), the mid-Maastrichtian deep-water event (MME), and the early Aptian oceanic anoxic event (OAE1a). These critical transitions involved dramatically modified oceanic circulation patterns, profound changes in geochemical cycling, and abrupt turnover in marine biotas.
The objectives of ODP Leg 198 on Shatsky Rise were to address the origin and consequences of both the abrupt climatic events and the long-term climatic transition into and out of "greenhouse" climate. Shatsky Rise, a medium-sized large igneous province (LIP) in the west-central Pacific (Figure 1), contains sediments of Cretaceous and Paleogene age at relatively shallow burial depths on three prominent highs. As a result, sediments of both ages could be reached readily through drilling, and fossil materials are sufficiently well preserved for stable isotope and trace element analyses and for faunal and floral assemblage studies.
Eight sites were drilled during Leg 198 on a broad depth transect designed to characterize changes in the nature of surface and deep waters through time, including vertical gradients of temperature, oxygenation, and corrosiveness. Six sites were cored on the Southern High, and one each on the Central and Northern Highs (Figure 2).
A summary of the Leg 198 scientific results can be found in the Preliminary Report
Earth has eaten too many vegetables, and has to let out a little gas once in a while.
Extreme Warmth in the Cretaceous and Paleogene: a Depth Transect on Shatsky Rise, Central Pacific
Interesting article. Of course we have known for a long time about these sea floor volcanic systems. It is not like it is new news.
See post #20...2nd and 3rd link.
The first of the three links at #20 is fascinating...but lengthy history....of the Naval programs .
And the observation ...not summarized that well by the Author...that the current theory...plate Tectonics... had some problems based on what he was seeing by observation....
Suggest you start with the 2nd and 3rd links.
Oh well. Guess I have no choice but to walk to the refrig and take my brain out of cold storage for a few hours. I had big plans of laying low tonight. heheh.
Excellent article, Ernest! BTTT!
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