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Reflection of the sun

December 27, 2012

This is a very strange phenomenon. People thought it was a reflection of the sun seen at the horizon reflected through the clouds.

Palotina – In the week that the predominant issue is the end of the world predicted by the superstitious to take place on Friday, December 21, a curious situation, mainly observed in the sky, awakens the attention and comments of the population.

One of the most recent cases was recorded and photographed in the early evening of Monday the administrative assistant James Testa, a resident of the community of Corner Progress in Palotina. The natural phenomenon caught the attention of Simepar, interested in photographic equipment to conduct further analysis.

The funnel-shaped light was first observed by the father of James. “He told me that at first thought it was a light gun, but realized that as time passed, the light grew more intense, it was then that I decided to shoot,” he says, still wondering what it is . “If anyone has an idea of ​​what is really, really want to know,” he says.

Many said it was the sunshine, but it is impossible, because the image appeared to 20:15 where the sun rises.

The light remained for ten minutes and then dissipated, according to James Testa reported. “Never seen anything like it.” According to him, in the beginning of light formed a red ball, which also drew the attention of observers. “Some neighbors also said they saw this beam of light intriguing.” The ray of light was emitted between the municipalities of Francisco Alves and Palotina. The photo circulated through social networks and generated a number of comments, including those related to ufology. For superstitious, it is a signal confirming the proximity of the end of the world.

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Scientists find dome of ‘violent’ submarine volcano off the coast of Baja, California | The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond

 

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Scientists find dome of ‘violent’ submarine volcano off the coast of Baja, California

Posted on December 14, 2012by The Extinction Protocol

December 14, 2012 – CALIFORNIA – Scientists have discovered one of the world’s weirdest volcanoes on the seafloor near the tip of Baja, Mexico. The petite dome — about 165 feet tall (50 meters) and 4,000 feet long by 1,640 feet wide (1,200 m by 500 m) — lies along the Alarcón Rise, a seafloor-spreading center. Tectonic forces are tearing the Earth’s crust apart at the spreading center, creating a long rift where magma oozes toward the surface, cools and forms new ocean crust. Circling the planet like baseball seams, seafloor-spreading centers (also called mid-ocean ridges) produce copious amounts of basalt, a low-silica content lava rock that makes up the ocean crust. But samples from the newly discovered volcano are strangely rhyolite lava, and have the highest silica content (up to 77 percent) of any rocks collected from a mid-ocean ridge, said Brian Dreyer, a geochemist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The results were presented last week at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Researchers with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) discovered the volcano this spring, during a three-month expedition to the Gulf of California, the warm stretch of water that separates Baja from mainland Mexico. A remote-control vehicle explored the volcano, which is 7,800 feet (2,375 m) below the surface, and brought samples back to the ship. “When we picked up the rocks and got them back on the ship, we immediately noticed that they were very low density, and they were very light, glassy and gray. They were not the usual dark, black, shiny basalts,” Dreyer told OurAmazingPlanet. “So we immediately knew that something was unusual.” The volcano is primarily rhyolite and a silicic lava called dacite, said MBARI geologist Jennifer Paduan. “To find this along a mid-ocean ridge is a total surprise,” she told OurAmazingPlanet. Boulders and blocks the size of cars and small houses littered the steep slopes of the dome, the robot’s video camera showed. Of more concern is the evidence for explosive volcanism, which is typical of rhyolite volcanoes, Paduan said. “It’s only 100 kilometers [60 miles] from land. When the sun is setting, you can see Cabo,” she said. Both the Baja Peninsula and mainland Mexico near Alarcón Rise have cities and luxury resorts. The Gulf of California is also home to endangered sea life. Rhyolite lava carries more gas and volatiles (things that are likely to cause explosions) than basalt, and when magma meets water, it vaporizes instantly, driving an even more explosive eruption. “There’s definitely explosive deposits there, and that is of extreme concern, given that the ridge is so close to land and the tsunami potential of a big explosion there,” Paduan said. “We don’t know how explosive, and that is something we are definitely trying to figure out.” Rhyolites have been found on spreading centers, but only above hot spots, such as in Iceland and the Galapagos Islands, Dreyer said. Hot spots are plumes that bring magma to the surface from deep within Earth’s mantle. There is no hot spot under the Alarcón Rise, he said. Rhyolite lava typically occurs only on continents, such as in Mount St. Helen’s growing dome in Washington. One possible explanation for the bizarre composition of the Alarcón dome is that continental crust snuck into the molten rock below — the spreading center is young, and continental crust lies close by. But tests of different isotopes (versions of elements with differing numbers of neutrons in the cores) in the lava samples revealed no evidence of contamination by continental crust, Dreyer said

Scientists find dome of ‘violent’ submarine volcano off the coast of Baja, California | The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond

Forget the Mayan calendar. Now, please, worry about volcanoes | The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond

 

Forget the Mayan calendar. Now, please, worry about volcanoes | The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond