Researchers have found around 100 underground volcanoes covering an area larger than Delaware
A"Jurassic World" of volcanoes has been discovered a mile beneath the surface of Earth. Researchers in Australia have found around 100 volcanoes covering an area larger than Delaware. They emerged between 160 and 180 million years ago and were subsequently buried beneath sedimentary locks, becoming lost to time., scientists looked at the Cooper and Eromanga Basins found in South Australia and Queensland.
Representative image of a volcano. Scientists in Australia have found a lost world of volcanoes beneath the Earth's surface.The Cooper and Eromanga Basins are now barren landscapes. However, during the Jurassic Period, the volcanoes would have been on the surface, with the area made up of"a series of fissures, and also small volcanoes, spewing lava and ash into the air," study co-author Nicholas Schofield, from the U.K.
Most volcanoes are found at the boundaries of the tectonic plates, where sections of Earth's crust slide past each other, creating friction and heat. The Warnie Volcanic Province is found in the interior of the continent Australia sits on. This raises questions about how the region developed, and potentially means far more"undiscovered volcanic worlds reside beneath the poorly explored surface of Australia", Simon Holford, from the University of Adelaide, said in a statement.
Schofield added that the area where the volcanoes were found has a huge amount of subsurface data relating to it from oil and gas exploration."However, many areas of the Earth's surface on land, don't have this kind of data available," he said."One doesn't expect to see the volcanism we have discovered in the middle of a tectonic plate interior, so it may be the case that are other examples globally, but we just don't have the data to discover them.
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