Lava Lamp Tectonics: University of Wyoming Professor Suggests Giant Blobs of Subducted Sediment Float Up Through Deep Earth
August 03, 2021
August 03, 2021
LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 3 (TNSRes) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on Aug. 2, 2021:
A University of Wyoming professor has used computer modeling to propose that sand and mud subducted off the coast of California around 75 million years ago returned to the Earth's crust by rising up through the mantle as enormous diapirs, like blobs in a lava lamp.
These blobs are now found at the surface of the Earth, far inland from the coast, in plac . . .
A University of Wyoming professor has used computer modeling to propose that sand and mud subducted off the coast of California around 75 million years ago returned to the Earth's crust by rising up through the mantle as enormous diapirs, like blobs in a lava lamp.
These blobs are now found at the surface of the Earth, far inland from the coast, in plac . . .