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On one of the sites with a water depth of 1,067 m (3,500 ft), core samples revealed the existence of salt domes.
Oil companies received samples after an agreement to publish their analysis. The potential of oil beneath deep ocean salt domes remains an important avenue for commercial development today.
A batholith (from Greek bathos, depth + lithos, rock) is a large emplacement of igneous intrusive (also called plutonic) rock that forms from cooled magma deep in the earth's crust.
Batholiths are almost always made mostly of felsic or intermediate rock-types, such as granite, quartz monzonite, or diorite (see also granite dome).
Although they may appear uniform, batholiths are in fact structures with complex histories and compositions.
They are composed of multiple masses, or plutons, bodies of igneous rock of irregular dimensions (typically at least several kilometers) that can be distinguished from adjacent igneous rock by some combination of criteria including age, composition, texture, or mappable structures.
Individual plutons are crystallized from magma that traveled toward the surface from a zone of partial melting near the base of the Earth's crust.
But drilling so deep into the earth is fraught with risks, critics say, not least of which could be eruptions of varying magnitudes triggered by the drilling.
Explosions caused by super-hot magma flooding into the borehole and vaporizing the drilling fluid are common in such projects.
The Iceland Deep Drilling Project, a geothermal energy play, was recently halted 2,014 meters down for exactly that reason.
The difference, critics say, is that an explosion is worst case scenario for most drilling projects like the IDDP; hitting a main vein of pressurized silica-rich magma in Campi Flegrei could theoretically cause a complete disaster, sending the volcano into full eruption (and Naples to its demise).
Originally posted by nite owl
I only ask you to watch you-tube and use your own reasoning. please watch,(fox news calls for obama to nuke the gulf of mexico.) It will esplain the SERIOUSNESS OF THE ISSUE.
Originally posted by nite owl
I only ask you to watch you-tube and use your own reasoning. please watch,(fox news calls for obama to nuke the gulf of mexico.) It will esplain the SERIOUSNESS OF THE ISSUE.
Originally posted by seanizle
reply to post by paxnatus
Wow, just watched the video you posted from msnbc. This is really getting bad......
Is anyone else thinking about what Credo Mutwa said at the beginning of the year?
I really hope he was just trippin balls
Originally posted by seanizle
reply to post by paxnatus
The Hopi's said it too...
Anyone know what date the news discussion on the vid took place? I thought the nuke option was off the table, I remember reading an article quoting the feds as saying that would not happen
[edit on 13/6/10 by cosmicpixie]
The Atlantic Plain: The Atlantic Plain is the flattest of the provinces. It stretches over 2,200 miles in length from Cape Cod to the Mexican border and southward another 1,000 miles to the Yucatan Peninsula. The Atlantic plain slopes gently seaward from the inland highlands in a series of terraces. This gentle slope continues far into the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, forming the continental shelf.
The relief at the land-sea interface is so low that the boundary between them is often blurry and indistinct, especially along stretches of the Louisiana bayous and the Florida Everglades.
Breakup of Pangea: This region was born during the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea in the early Mesozoic Era. Pangea first began to be torn apart when a three-pronged fissure grew between Africa, South America, and North America.
Rifting began as magma welled up through the weakness in the crust, creating a volcanic rift zone. Volcanic eruptions spewed ash and volcanic debris across the landscape as these severed continent-sized fragments of Pangea diverged.
The gash between the spreading continents gradually grew to form a new ocean basin, the Atlantic. The rift zone known as the mid-Atlantic ridge continued to provide the raw volcanic materials for the expanding ocean basin.
North America Pulling Westward: Meanwhile, North America was slowly pulled westward away from the rift zone. The thick continental crust that made up the new east coast collapsed into a series of down-dropped fault blocks that roughly parallel today's coastline. At first, the hot, faulted edge of the continent was high and buoyant relative to the new ocean basin. As the edge of North America moved away from the hot rift zone, it began to cool and subside beneath the new Atlantic Ocean.
This once-active divergent plate boundary became the passive, trailing edge of westward moving North America.
In plate tectonic terms, the Atlantic Plain is known as a classic example of a passive continental margin./b]
Originally posted by seanizle
reply to post by paxnatus
Wow, just watched the video you posted from msnbc. This is really getting bad......
Is anyone else thinking about what Credo Mutwa said at the beginning of the year?
I really hope he was just trippin balls