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To: jimfree

One thing they never explain is how ice melts in 50 to 100 degrees below zero temperatures.


16 posted on 12/15/2008 8:07:56 PM PST by RDasher
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To: RDasher; SunkenCiv

Fire Under Arctic Ice: Volcanoes Have Been Blowing Their Tops In The Deep Ocean
ScienceDaily (June 26, 2008) — A research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has uncovered evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ice-covered surface of the Arctic Ocean. Such violent eruptions of splintered, fragmented rock—known as pyroclastic deposits — were not thought possible at great ocean depths because of the intense weight and pressure of water and because of the composition of seafloor magma and rock...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080625140649.htm


18 posted on 12/17/2008 4:27:24 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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