A map depicts the features of the Pacific Ocean floor. A new study suggests that the collapse of an underwater mountain range in the Pacific Ocean changed the face of the planet from the Hawaiian Islands to Antarctica.
A map depicts the features of the Pacific Ocean floor. A new study suggests that the collapse of an underwater mountain range in the Pacific Ocean changed the face of the planet from the Hawaiian Islands to Antarctica.
Man this is a horribly written article on what is very interesting work.
It gives the wrong impression this was some sort of sudden event rather than something that took millions of years.
Sub-prime loams. The collapse was inevitable.
How do you destroy mountains.
Particularly mountains that are mostly submerged already.
Maybe the author was just going for the dramatic.
One tectonic plate slipped out from under another, and in doing so, displaced a considerable amount of the overlying mantle, allowing a great deal of heat from the earth’s interior to escape, warming the ocean in a way that mankind, with all its concentrated technology and single-minded determination, could not possibly achieve.
It probably also thrust up the Sierra Moutain range, creating the Great Salt Lake Basin, which was once an arm of the sea.
The Great Salt Lake is simply the remaining puddle of that once huge sea that arced out across what is now northern California, Washington State and Oregon.
If that was an earthquake it would be about a 12. There was one a little smaller that raised the Andes a mile within the memory of the human species.