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Related: About this forumStrange geologic activity under New England surprises scientists
By Tyler Moore, CNN
Updated 12:19 PM ET, Wed June 27, 2018
(CNN)Earth is constantly evolving and reshaping itself through geological processes.
Sometimes, these processes can be very dramatic: most recently, the picturesque but destructive lava flows from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii and the deadly blast of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala. Other times, however, Earth's changes occur over millennia and are nearly imperceptible to humans.
In the Northeast United States, geological activity was thought to have been quiet for millions of years. But a discovery by Vadim Levin, a geophysicist at Rutgers University, and his team paints a much more exciting picture.
The scientists found a large mass of warm rock, several hundred square miles across, slowly rising beneath parts of New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/us/volcano-under-new-england-wxc/
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Strange geologic activity under New England surprises scientists (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jul 2018
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cos dem
(902 posts)1. Interesting how it exactly follows the eastern NY border with Mass and VT.
lastlib
(23,152 posts)8. Or how the eastern NY border w/ MA & VT follows the warm rock.......
Chicken/egg........?
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)2. "Exciting?"
Uhhh....
Kaleva
(36,248 posts)6. Like being at the top of the WTC during 9/11 exciting.
applegrove
(118,492 posts)3. Thank god i live nearby. If it is a supervolcano i will be gone with the
initial blast and will not have to live through a nuclear winter type event.
pscot
(21,024 posts)4. SW Greenland is rising
12 millimeters a year because of postglacial uplift. I wonder if that's affecting it.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)5. Not the Blue States!
Seriously, this is an unexpected & interesting read.
Thanks for posting, Judi Lynn
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)7. Warm rock? Is that something like soft rock?
NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)9. Slowly? rising...
...in a geological time sense?...Call me after I read War and Peace and Lord of the Rings....a few times over.
csziggy
(34,131 posts)10. Interesting - on the USGS 2014 Hazard map that area is at low risk
While the areas to the east and west are higher risk.