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this statement is patently false and most know so.
Magma, by definition, would mean the area is volcanically active, versus dormant.
In the late 1800s the Frasch process - a mining technique that recovers from 75% to 92% of a salt dome’s recoverable sulphur - became operational (Bodenlos 1973: 615). This made the large underground sulphur deposits of the Texas and Louisiana salt domes exploitable, and provided the world with a new source of high-purity (99.5%) elemental sulphur. These stockpiles today (1992) account for more than 50% of the U.S. sulphur supply (see update notes). By 1913 the United States had become the world leader in sulphur production; it has never relinquished the lead (Whitehead 1931; Shelton 1979). Canada, Japan, France, Poland, and Mexico are also major sulphur suppliers. Volcanic deposits are currently exploited in Indonesia and in Chile and other parts of South America.
In an industry meeting in Calgary in late October 1999, Mr. Gerard d' Aquin, President of Con-Sul Inc., stated that 80% to 85% of United States sulfur production in the year 2000 would be recovered sulphur produced from hydrogen sulfide (H2S).
Abundant evidence from the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin suggests that late Early Cretaceous to Recent sea-floor spreading is the principal factor in the formation of the structural components of this basin. This would classify the Gulf of Mexico Basin as an active tectonic basin as opposed to the more accepted passive basin status.
Originally posted by Honor93
reply to post by Olivine
Olivine, i can agree to disagree but i would suggest you refrain from dismissing that of which you clearly know very little.
this statement is patently false and most know so.
Magma, by definition, would mean the area is volcanically active, versus dormant.
Mt St Helens is a prime example.
Future eruptions from Mount St. Helens are a near certainty.
In addition, the segmentation of the transitional crust beneath the northern GoM into a magmatically robust segment beneath the Texas coast and a stretched margin beneath Louisiana is also consistent with BAB behavior:
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The Gulf of Mexico (GoM) is a rare example where the origin of a sizable oceanic basin at low latitudes is still unclear. The GoM is a nearly enclosed basin, encompassing ~1.6 × 106 km2, bounded on the
north by North America, on the west by Mexico, and on the south by the Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba.
We have only indirect information about its early evolution, due to thick sediments, including salt, and the lack of correlatable, spreading-related magnetic anomalies.
VOLCANO HISTORY: Mount St. Helens took scientists, not to mention the public, by surprise when it erupted catastrophically in May 1980. It was the deadliest volcanic event in U.S. history.
On the basis of its youth and its high frequency of eruptions over the past 4,000 years, Crandell, Mullineaux, and their colleague Meyer Rubin published in February 1975 that Mount St. Helens was the one volcano in the conterminous United States most likely to reawaken and to erupt "perhaps before the end of this century." This prophetic conclusion was followed in 1978 by a more detailed report, in which Crandell and Mullineaux elaborated their earlier conclusion and analyzed, with maps and scenarios, the kinds, magnitudes, and areal extents of potential volcanic hazards that might be expected from future eruptions of Mount St. Helens. Collectively, these two publications contain one of the most accurate forecasts of a violent geologic event.
Originally posted by jadedANDcynical
reply to post by Honor93
The very fact that there are so many odd geological occurrences taking place (all of those that you mention, and many others such as the massive methane fountains, deep ocean heating , earthquakes in odd places), taken into consideration along with the rate of global expansion (as discussed in the second, longer video I posted) when plotted on a graph shows an exponential curve indicates that the rate of expansion is increasing as time goes on.
In other words, this expansion is happening faster now than it was in the past and will happen even faster still in the future.
Now, we are talking geologic time frames here, so 'fast' is a relative term. But in nature any cyclical process has periods of rapid advancement followed by periods of apparent dormancy. Growth spurts are a prime example of this.
This being the case, such growth spurts in an expanding earth would bring periods of equally expanded geologic activity of all types. Thing is, we don't have anywhere near enough data to be able to know if we are in a lull or growth spurt stage.
Hope this helps and is not too far off topic,I kind of had a stream of consciousness thing going and wanted to share...
www.guardian.co.uk...
In an e-mail on April 16, a BP official involved in the decision explained: "It will take 10 hours to install them. I do not like this." Later that day, another official recognized the risks of proceeding with insufficient centralizers but commented: "who cares, it's done, end of story, will probably be fine."