{"id":8890,"date":"2017-12-23T14:07:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T21:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2018-01-02T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T00:22:08","slug":"mystery-blob-threatens-new-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/23\/mystery-blob-threatens-new-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Blob Threatens New England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mysterious-blob-of-hot-rock-building-up-underneath-vermont-new-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from Science Alert<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>A Mysterious Blob of Hot Rock Is Building Up Under America&#8217;s Northeast<\/h1>\n<p>Something is rising from the depths.<\/p>\n<p>by PETER DOCKRILL<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2017-12\/578-vermont-blob-1.jpg\" alt=\"578 vermont blob 1\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Hot rock in the mantle rising toward the surface (Vadim Levin\/Rutgers University-New Brunswick<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A vast mass of hot rock is welling up underneath Vermont and extending into other subterranean regions below New England, new research shows.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists used a network of thousands of seismic measurement devices in the largest geological study of its kind, detecting the enormous blob upwelling under Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts \u2013 and possibly elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The upwelling we detected is like a hot air balloon, and we infer that something is rising up through the deeper part of our planet under New England,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.rutgers.edu\/research-news\/mass-warm-rock-rising-beneath-new-england-rutgers-study-suggests\/20171121#.WjbuDSNL1Tb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a>\u00a0geophysicist Vadim Levin from Rutgers University \u2013 New Brunswick.<\/p>\n<p>Since New England doesn&#8217;t have any active volcanoes, the huge build-up is thought to be a geologically recent phenomenon, although in this case that means it could have slowly but steadily been growing for tens of millions of years.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mysterious-blob-of-hot-rock-building-up-underneath-vermont-new-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Science Alert<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Science Alert A Mysterious Blob of Hot Rock Is Building Up Under America&#8217;s Northeast Something is rising from the depths. by PETER DOCKRILL Hot rock in the mantle rising toward the surface (Vadim Levin\/Rutgers University-New Brunswick A vast mass of hot rock is welling up underneath Vermont and extending into other subterranean regions below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}