{"id":9404,"date":"2018-11-08T17:03:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9404"},"modified":"2018-11-18T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T00:08:12","slug":"migrating-mud-pot-in-mojave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/08\/migrating-mud-pot-in-mojave\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrating Mud Pot in Mojave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2018\/11\/bubbling-pool-mud-moving-california-dont-know-why-geology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from National Geographic<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"main-title md-title sentence-case\">A bubbling pool of mud is on the move, and no one knows why<\/h1>\n<h2>Traveling at about 20 feet a year, the muddy mystery has no obvious driver\u2014and so far, it can&#8217;t be stopped.<\/h2>\n<p>BY <span class=\"byline-component__contributors\">ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yg0zu5-x6sc\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"parbase smartbody section text\">\n<p>When it comes to matters of geology and rumbling earth in California, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.org\/photo\/tdigh-04-18-san-francisco-earthquake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Andreas Fault<\/a> is usually the star of the show. But this time around, the area near the infamous fault has caught people\u2019s attention due to a mysterious pot of bubbling mud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"parbase smartbody section text\">\n<p>Refusing to stay in place, a roiling mass of carbon dioxide and slurry-like soil is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scec.org\/publication\/8562\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">migrating across the state at a pace of 20 feet a year<\/a>. So far, it\u2019s carved a 24,000-square-foot basin out of the earth, and it\u2019s set to continue its crusade until whatever\u2019s driving it dies out. Scientists currently have no real idea why it\u2019s moving or if it can be stopped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"parbase smartbody section text\">\n<p>So, what <i>do<\/i> we know about it?<\/p>\n<p>This curiosity appeared in the Salton Trough, an area of California that\u2019s being stretched apart by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2018\/08\/news-happens-plate-tectonics-end-earth-mountains-volcanoes-geology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tectonic battle<\/a> between the forces of the San Andreas Fault and the East Pacific Rise, a mid-ocean ridge. This unique environment is where the Colorado River dumps plenty of its sediment, which gets packed up so that the lower layers a few miles down get heated up and squashed a little. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2018\/10\/news-tectonic-plate-split-earthquakes-tsunamis-geology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out how a powerful earthquake snapped a tectonic plate in two<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2018\/11\/bubbling-pool-mud-moving-california-dont-know-why-geology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Nat Geo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from National Geographic A bubbling pool of mud is on the move, and no one knows why Traveling at about 20 feet a year, the muddy mystery has no obvious driver\u2014and so far, it can&#8217;t be stopped. BY ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS \ufeff When it comes to matters of geology and rumbling earth in California, the [&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-9404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404","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=9404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}