{"id":361,"date":"2020-05-23T15:39:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T22:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=361"},"modified":"2020-05-23T17:26:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T00:26:16","slug":"science-research-rabbit-hole-geology-of-bermuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/05\/23\/science-research-rabbit-hole-geology-of-bermuda\/","title":{"rendered":"Science: Research Rabbit Hole: Geology of Bermuda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I can&#8217;t even remember how it happened <em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color\">(perhaps it was triggered by sending a postcard to the French Overseas Department R\u00e9union, which is an island off the coast of Madagascar, two days ago?)<\/span><\/em>, but I suddenly, <em>very much needed to know<\/em> how Bermuda, which lies in very isolated waters off the eastern coast of the United States, came to exist.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer: it is volcanic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-theme=\"dark\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bermuda_Pedestal\">Bermuda Pedestal<\/a><\/h4><p>The Bermuda Pedestal is an oval geological feature in the northern Atlantic Ocean containing the topographic highs of the Bermuda Platform, the Plantagenet (Argus) Bank, and the Challenger Bank. The pedestal is 50 km (31 mi) long and 25 km (16 mi) wide at the 100 fathom line (-185 m), while the base measures 130 km by 80 km at -4200 m.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t think of the east coast of the US as volcanic generally, and while it is quite a distance from shore, it still feels like a surprise.  A theory of a Bermuda Hotspot is uncertain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know our Pacific Ring of Fire isn&#8217;t the only site of tectonic plate volcanism, but outside of Iceland (which is quite wildly and <em>unmistakably<\/em> and actively volcanic), &#8220;Atlantic&#8221; and &#8220;volcanic&#8221; aren&#8217;t ideas that go together for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If R\u00e9union did plant the conceptual seed of this need to know, it is likely because (yes) it is also volcanic, and the island has not one but TWO volcanoes: one dormant and the other quite active.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-theme=\"dark\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piton_de_la_Fournaise\">Piton de la Fournaise<\/a><\/h4><p>Piton de la Fournaise ( French for &#8220;Peak of the Furnace&#8221;) is a shield volcano on the eastern side of R\u00e9union island (a French department) in the Indian Ocean. It is currently one of the most active volcanoes in the world, along with K\u012blauea in the Hawaiian Islands, Stromboli and Etna in Italy and Mount Erebus in Antarctica.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>(Until sending this R\u00e9union bound mail off, my prior association with R\u00e9union was that a confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2017\/jan\/17\/missing-flight-mh370-a-visual-guide-to-the-parts-and-debris-found-so-far\">piece of missing flight plane MH-370 washed up there<\/a>. )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t even remember how it happened (perhaps it was triggered by sending a postcard to the French Overseas Department R\u00e9union, which is an island off the coast of Madagascar, two days ago?), but I suddenly, very much needed to know how Bermuda, which lies in very isolated waters off the eastern coast of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/05\/23\/science-research-rabbit-hole-geology-of-bermuda\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Science: Research Rabbit Hole: Geology of Bermuda&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,92],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-islands","tag-volcanoes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}