Strange geologic activity under New England surprises scientists

[Judi Lynn]

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.



More:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/us/volcano-under-new-england-wxc/

[cos dem]

1. Interesting how it exactly follows the eastern NY border with Mass and VT.

[lastlib]

8. Or how the eastern NY border w/ MA & VT follows the warm rock.......

Chicken/egg........?

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

2. "Exciting?"

Uhhh....

[Kaleva]

6. Like being at the top of the WTC during 9/11 exciting.

[applegrove]

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]

4. SW Greenland is rising

12 millimeters a year because of postglacial uplift. I wonder if that's affecting it.

[Wwcd]

5. Not the Blue States!

Seriously, this is an unexpected & interesting read.

Thanks for posting, Judi Lynn

[Lint Head]

7. Warm rock? Is that something like soft rock?

[NeoGreen]

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]

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.