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A Giant Blob of Hot Rock Is Building Up Under America's Northeast
sciencealert.com ^ | 6/24/2018 | peter dockrill

Posted on 06/25/2018 10:24:50 PM PDT by bitt

Something is rising from the depths.

A vast mass of hot rock is welling up underneath Vermont and extending into other subterranean regions below New England, new research shows.

Scientists used a network of thousands of seismic measurement devices in the largest geological study of its kind, detecting the enormous blob upwelling under Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts – and possibly elsewhere.

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; lava; massachusetts; newengland; newhampshire; vermont
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1 posted on 06/25/2018 10:24:50 PM PDT by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

(another BOOM?)


2 posted on 06/25/2018 10:25:44 PM PDT by bitt (t\\)
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festering liberalism


3 posted on 06/25/2018 10:28:44 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: bitt

God will not be mocked....


4 posted on 06/25/2018 10:30:26 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: bitt

I hope it shows favoratism to Assachusetts.


5 posted on 06/25/2018 10:34:20 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: bitt

If it burns up Bernie and his Wench I guess I am OK with it.


6 posted on 06/25/2018 10:35:48 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of ascenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 100American

In 50 million years it might erupt.

Or not.


7 posted on 06/25/2018 10:36:22 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: bitt

This is carrying Global Warming too far.


8 posted on 06/25/2018 10:37:13 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the new cult of the Left.)
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To: bitt

“Come back in 50 million years, and we’ll see what happens.”
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So, I guess it would be inappropriate to say “Oh no, we’re all gonna die!”.


9 posted on 06/25/2018 10:37:52 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: Snickering Hound

Could be...

Could be not....


10 posted on 06/25/2018 10:38:16 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: jonrick46

we have a few small ice ages in between, methinks..


11 posted on 06/25/2018 10:38:16 PM PDT by bitt (t\\)
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To: bitt
Eddie Van Halen - Eruption
12 posted on 06/25/2018 10:40:30 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK ("Vi veri vniversum vivus vici" "By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe)
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13 posted on 06/25/2018 10:44:56 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: steve86

Thanks!


14 posted on 06/25/2018 10:46:09 PM PDT by american colleen
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To: bitt

Aw shucks...


15 posted on 06/25/2018 10:46:50 PM PDT by Bullish (government=overfunded stupidity.)
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no problem, all progressive, Liberal Democrat voting area. bummer though if it misses NY


16 posted on 06/25/2018 10:46:56 PM PDT by fish hawk (MACA Make America Christian Again)
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To: House Atreides
So, I guess it would be inappropriate to say “Oh no, we’re all gonna die!”.

Uh... No, that would actually be accurate.

17 posted on 06/25/2018 10:48:21 PM PDT by Bullish (government=overfunded stupidity.)
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To: Bullish

Touché


18 posted on 06/25/2018 10:50:00 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: bitt
Couldn't happen at a more apt location.
19 posted on 06/25/2018 10:50:44 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: House Atreides

Well met.


20 posted on 06/25/2018 10:54:10 PM PDT by Bullish (government=overfunded stupidity.)
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