Wednesday, May 27, 2009

What in the world?

While I was looking at that awesome article about the sloth, inoticed this.  It seems that a giant blob has been found underneath Nevada. 

Last year, Arizona State University Allen McNamara explained how Earth is not neatly divided into a crust, mantle and core. Rather, several large blobs of highly compressed rock — which he described as behaving like honey or peanut butter — exist.

This is amazing, and it reminds me that I need to get to work on explaining supervolcano to the people.  I will do this soon.