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Yellowstone Hot Spot Shreds Ancient Pacific Ocean

Posted by Soulskill on from the tectonic-violence dept.

jamie passes along this excerpt from DiscoveryNews: "If you thought the geysers and overblown threat of a supervolcanic eruption in Yellowstone National Park were dramatic, you ain't seen nothing: deep beneath Earth's surface, the hot spot that feeds the park has torn an entire tectonic plate in half. The revelation comes from a new study (abstract) in the journal Geophysical Research Letters that peered into the mantle beneath the Pacific Northwest to see what happens when ancient ocean crust from the Pacific Ocean runs headlong into a churning plume of ultra-hot mantle material."

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  1. I hope I'm not the only one. by CaptainNerdCave · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did anyone else read the headline and think, "Great, another ridiculous claim about the damage being wreaked by wireless network signals"?

    1. Re:I hope I'm not the only one. by interkin3tic · · Score: 3, Funny

      I wish. First I misread the title and thought yogi bear was skateboarding in the pacific and "shredding some wicked air." Then I though "WE ALL GONNA DIE!!!" Then I thought about eating some more pringles. Forgot to take my medication today. What were we talking about?

  2. Re:Funny typo by MichaelSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Words which start with "I" are the property of Apple Corp.

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  3. Re:Gulf of Mexico by MartinSchou · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that why the oil wells keep catching fire?

  4. So... by digitig · · Score: 2, Funny

    The East will rise again!

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  5. Great, just great. by pedantic+bore · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was hoping for a quiet weekend at home, and now it looks like I'll have to deal with an apocalyptic volcano that's going around breaking plates, wearing an ultra hot mantle.

    Great.

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    1. Re:Great, just great. by game+kid · · Score: 5, Funny

      You thought your life was going well, but you were just rearranging deck chairs on the Tectonic all along.

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