A vast "raft" of volcanic rocks covering 10,000 sq miles

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This made me think how much gas was expelled at the same time. 

What the composition of such gas would be?

Do the global warmers (I can't bring myself to use the catch all phrase "climate change") take into account these type of emissions?????

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19207810

[musclehead]

no they don't, the single biggest polluter in Washington state is Mt. St. Helens ( I'd like to see them fine a mountain  )

[BigAl]

The raft of rock we live on  and call a continent.

Is really a plate made of basalted magma.

The sea floor crust is made of basalt.

The crust we live on is like I said basalted magma known as granite.

As magma rises on the sea floor it becomes basalted or mixed with basalt.

A metomorphic rock.

Granite is quite less weighty than basalt.

So that is what we call tera ferma. Or the continental plate.

No I did not google this but you can. I have always wanted to be a Geologist.

Anything else you would like to know, just ask Al.

Smart Ass and Genius all at once.

[bscrive]

This made me think how much gas was expelled at the same time. 

What the composition of such gas would be?

Do the global warmers (I can't bring myself to use the catch all phrase "climate change") take into account these type of emissions?????

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19207810

It doesn't fit into their agenda Britman.

[musclehead]

The raft of rock we live on  and call a continent.

Is really a plate made of basalted magma.

The sea floor crust is made of basalt.

The crust we live on is like I said basalted magma known as granite.

As magma rises on the sea floor it becomes basalted or mixed with basalt.

A metomorphic rock.

Granite is quite less weighty than basalt.

So that is what we call tera ferma. Or the continental plate.

No I did not google this but you can. I have always wanted to be a Geologist.

Anything else you would like to know, just ask Al.

Smart Ass and Genius all at once.

why is the sky blue? ( I know this one so you better get it right)

[art]

because of the oxygen in the air

[BigAl]

The raft of rock we live on  and call a continent.

Is really a plate made of basalted magma.

The sea floor crust is made of basalt.

The crust we live on is like I said basalted magma known as granite.

As magma rises on the sea floor it becomes basalted or mixed with basalt.

A metomorphic rock.

Granite is quite less weighty than basalt.

So that is what we call tera ferma. Or the continental plate.

No I did not google this but you can. I have always wanted to be a Geologist.

Anything else you would like to know, just ask Al.

Smart Ass and Genius all at once.

why is the sky blue? ( I know this one so you better get it right)

Water Vapor makes the Sky Blue.  Water, Sun shines or radiates through it and the prism effect gives off Blue Color OR we live on the blue orb as seen

from space. Prism effect with sunshine and rain cause the rainbow.

I asked this question quite often of our company engineers.

They usually don't get it right.

[BigAl]

It's known as the Raliegh Effect.

The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air

Had to Bing it.

But you have to admit the engineers I know could not answer it either. I attempted and was close.

Bing got it right.