Are you referring to Gros Morne or the MAR St. Peter and St. Paul Fracture Zones? From what I've read, I believe St. Pete and Paul are peridotite, on the islands at least. Have to double check. Dating is puzzling because the ranges are at intervals. Something like 1800, 1000, 800, then 500 mya. But this would be consistent with the MAR rising magma welts that cause the lateral rift flanks. As for Gros Morne, after beiing there and looking at it, I don't see how it could be anything else but an uplift. But a very unusual one at that! I'd really have to do some research to even begin to comprehend the origin of what's there. That is really an unusual hill of rock that just seems to stick out out of nowhere. According to Wiki:
Neither. I'm talking about the area the study in the OP is based on, which is a long way north of the St. Peter & St. Paul fracture zone.
This is the MAR Fifteen-Twenty Fracture Zone (FTFZ) which is in the same general vicinity as St. Peter and St. Paul Fracture Zones, just North I think. Need the coordinates. All these fracture zones belong to the category of trans-oceanic faults, crossing the axial zone of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and its flanks and the floor of the oceanic basins adjacent to the ridge. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/gg/classroom@sea/JC007/about.html http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21331739-30417,00.html http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100...objectid=18695829&siteid=50082-name_page.html Dr Chris MacLeod, School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Cardiff University. Liaises with IODP's Science Planning Committee and chairs ESSAC. The UK Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (UK IODP) is "providing a better understanding of plate tectonic processes, the Earth's crustal structure and composition, environmental conditions and life in ancient oceans, and climate change." http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/ukiodp
"Robotic device will land on the bottom of the crater, measure its depth and dig into the mantle to bring back samples. The project is being financed by Britain's National Environment Research Council and the Department of trade and Industry's Large Scientific Facilities Fund." http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/03/07/earth.crust.voyage.ap/index.html
The way that CNN articles reads, it's a literal hole (like the hollow-earthers are hoping for!)Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Here's a link to the mission website: http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/gg/classroom@sea/JC007/index.html
The article link in the opening post describes the rift zones, through which the Biblical "fountains of the deep" effused, the mantle still remains near those rift zones.
You're a nutcase that should be banned from Sciforums for trolling and posting obnoxious posts. Nowhere does the opening post or article suggest any such rubbish. Get a life.
Hey IAC, how did all those animals get into the ark? Gen 7:15-16 15 And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life. 16 So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in. Ahhhh, I see. So in true fairy tale fashion, God spoke to all these spiritually enlightened animals and simply told them to go the ark. He guided the young, newborn juvenile animals thousands of miles from all over the world to the ark. Because that's scientific, right? Gen 8:1-3 8:1 Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained. 3 And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. Hmmmmm, so God used "wind" to evaporate 14 trillion cubic mile of water from the earth. I wonder where all that water evaporated to? Gen 8:11 11 Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. NKJV Interesting. According to you, the entire earth was covered with miles of sediment from the flood waters (source of that sediment apparantly unknown). So how exactly were olive trees magically growing only weeks after the flood with no arable land? Amazing!!!
NDS: IAC, how did the animals get to the ark? IAC: God told them to go there and they were very spiritually enlightened. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I don't care if you've written a 100 books. You're still a nutcase. No where in the article link or anywhere else in this thread is there reference to what you are suggesting, so cut the b.s. and get a life. This is a scientific thread about an exposed area of the mantle in the Atlantic Ocean and has nothing to do with your donkey-ass ridiculous obnoxious comments. Obviously, you're a very bored and argumentative person who has nothing better to do with his time than to live in a make-believe world and cause trouble to other's with sincere scientific interests just for your selfish entertainment. Get a life!
Oh my. Is there a forum library of pithy perfections? I think you should join with your fellow authors and graduates of fancy colleges, instead of hanging around with the unappreciative. IAC, here's a man after your own, a man you could trust as a mentor, writer of more than ten times as many books as you have written, graduate of a venerable and sophisticated university that actually requires one to be both literate and fluent in at least two languages (Antonin Scalia's alma mater, no less !) and read in others: http://www.daniken.com/e/ Meanwhile: I was intrigued by the tools of geological investigation brought to bear on the sparkly rocks. More refractive than gin, harder to scratch than a gin glass - so that's what the pros use, instead of my childhood rock-hound kit's files and implements. I don't think they need fear mutiny, hiowever - rum drinkers mutiny, gin drinkers incorporate - - - .
Shockingly poor, as usual. Up to 0.5% in the upper mantle. http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2005JB003732.shtml In magmas, figures seem to range from 0.1-6.5% http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/els/03770273/1998/00000087/00000001/art00102 (subscription required) http://www.springerlink.com/content/r66827g577kl6136/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/jl0279025tmrl3j5/
Astoundingly ignorant, as usual, it's BY WEIGHT, magma is about 80% water. Here's the hard part for you apparently, magma is under pressure, lava is not, magma has superheated water in it, under pressure, lava is not under pressure, so the superheated water releases as steam, got it?
I wonder how much steam or magma would need to be produced to supply 4 trillion cubic miles of water to the earth, causing a global flood?
