Wednesday, December 17, 2008

whoops!


Lava Column
Originally uploaded by wwarby.
From wired.com:
Drillers accidentally hit a pocket of molten rock underneath a working geothermal energy field in Hawaii, a lucky break for geologists that could allow them to map the geological plumbing that created everything we know as land.

The unprecedented discovery could act as a "magma observatory," allowing scientists to test their theories about how processes transformed the molten rock below Earth's surface into the rocky crust that humans live on today.


I can imagine the drillers: "Whoops!" then the scientists: "Oh wait. Cool!"

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