I Like Sills But Not A Fan Of The Popular Or My Friend’s Ex
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By , on December 15th, 2010 Leave a comment   Environmental Sciences, Geology, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , , , , , , ,  

I’m a contrarian. Majority consensus makes me shudder. I just like rooting for underdogs*. Those undersea ridges at the boundaries of tectonic plates, spewing molten magma to form new crust are o’ so popular these days. Spreading plate boundaries…meh. What I do like is new research basically stating, and I am paraphrasing here, that spreading . . . → Read More: I Like Sills But Not A Fan Of The Popular Or My Friend’s Ex

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From The Desk of Zelnio: New Geophysical Study May Point The Direction To New Vent Discoveries
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By , on March 21st, 2007 2 comments   Geology, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , , ,  

Perspective view of East Pacific Rise and the seismic velocity structure of the underlying mantle. Surprisingly, regions of magma storage in the mantle (shown as orange and red colors) are in many places not centered beneath the plate plate boundary. Courtesy Douglas Toomey [Note from Craig: I have asked Kevin Zelnio, a graduate student . . . → Read More: From The Desk of Zelnio: New Geophysical Study May Point The Direction To New Vent Discoveries

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