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austin_blue5/09/2018 10:13:28 pm PDT

re: #14 FormerDirtDart ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ€

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Well, thatโ€™s just bullshit. The Big Island is under a subsurface mantle plume that has built that archipelago for millions of years. As the Pacific plate has moved to the north and west, that magma jet has punched holes in the Pacific plate and created the islands that we now know as Hawaii.

Think of it as a subsurface oxyacetylene torch. It melts the rock above it and forces it to splash out onto the existing island above it, or builds a new one. When that island eventually moves away, it creates a new island. Oahu and Maui were created by the same jet that is active now.

The point is that the jet is melting mafic rock, which is what the sea bed and the mantle of the earth are made of. It is thus pushing mafic rock to the surface, which is happening right now.

There will be no catastrophic explosions in Hawaii.

This is not the rock that resulted in Krakatoa, Pinatubo, or Mt. St. Helens. That was continental rock that got plugged and then ruptured catastrophically. That doesnโ€™t happen in a geological milieu like Hawaii.

This is just a mid-ocean volcanic island adding acreage. Itโ€™s just a normal geologic process.