Along with black lights and hookahs, lava lamps are iconic fixtures of the psychedelic 1960’s. Observing what happens when we turn on a lava lamp can help us understand the evolution of the Columbia Plateau–Yellowstone Hotspot track. It’s not clear exactly why deep mantle material heats up. But when it does it expands like the hot wax in a lava lamp. The wax rises as it becomes less dense than the surrounding oil. At times the rising wax develops a mushroom shape, with a large head and narrow stem. Similarly, deep within the Earth heated mantle becomes less dense than the surrounding material. Although it is still solid, the heated mantle can rise slowly toward the surface. And like the wax in a lava lamp, it can develop a mushroom shape. The magma melting off the mantle at a hotspot initially has a low-silica, basalt composition. When the Yellowstone Hotspot initially reached the surface 17 million years ago, it was shaped like a mushroom, with a large head and narrow stem. The massive outpourings of basalt lava covered the Columbia Plateau and Steens Basalt regions.After a few million years, the mushroom head of the hotspot dissipates, leaving only a thin stem. Plate motion carries the region of extensive basalt lava away, but the magma rising from the stem must somehow work its way to the surface. That’s when the thickness and composition of continental crust come into play. The basaltic melt from the hotspot stem may, in fact, form two levels of magma chambers within the overriding plate. The lowest is at the base of the crust, retaining a low-silica (basalt/gabbro) composition. Magma rising from that level melts its way through thick, silica-rich continental crust, forming high-silica (rhyolite/granite) magma chambers in the upper part of the crust. A narrow chain of explosive, rhyolite volcanoes forms on the surface of the moving plate. The areas of rhyolite underlying the Snake River Plain form discrete areas of volcanic activity, rather than one long ridge. This situation is analogous to that seen in the Pacific Ocean, where discrete islands form over the Hawaiian Hotspot. “Islands” of rhyolite, progressively younger to the northeast, extend across the Snake River Plain of southern Idaho. Similar to the Big Island of Hawaii, a very high region, the Yellowstone Plateau, lies directly above the hotspot.
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The Pacific Northwest Trail is a unique pathway that travels through some of the most spectacular and scenic terrain in the United States while connecting people and communities across the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Northwest Trail offers a diverse experience, from wilderness to working landscapes to historic downtown Main Streets. The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Though no official boundary exists, the most common conception includes the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) and the U.S. States of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.Pacific Northwest Ballet NutcrackerJohn Day Fossil Beds
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in northeastern Oregon contains incredible examples of mammal, plant, and other fossils. Those fossils are preserved in sedimentary layers that were deposited from 54 to 6 million years ago. Within the fossil beds are lava flows—part of the enormous volume of basalt that formed the Columbia Plateau of northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington. The fluid lavas poured out of long fissures, much like those seen erupting from rift zones on the flanks of shield volcanoes in Hawaii and Iceland. More than 20 such flows, totaling about 1,600 feet (500 meters) thickness, can be seen in Picture Gorge within the monument.Hard Lava Flows form the Caprock of many Buttes and Mesas in the Columbia Plateau Region
Earlier this year, Oregon decriminalized leftist violence, rioting, and looting so it makes perfect sense the they’ve done the same thing with hard drugs like crack and meth. Everybody knows it’s more fun to burn down a federal courthouse when you’re whacked out of your gourd on heroin and now it’s possible. It’s also a lot more fun to be in Antifa with all of their criminal activities now completely legal in Oregon.
Fox News brings us this “what could possibly go wrong?” story of liberal insanity in the Pacific Northwest:
Oregon became the first state to decriminalize hard drugs like heroin, cocaine and meth in a 59-41% vote as of early Wednesday morning…
“People suffering from addiction are more effectively treated with health care services than with criminal punishments,” the bill reads. “A health care approach includes a health assessment to figure out the needs of people who are suffering from addiction, and it includes connecting them to the services they need.”
So it’s like “Defund the Police” only for drugs. Sounds awesome. So does this:
Instead of treating drug users as criminals, Oregon will now offer them addiction services funded by marijuana tax revenue, which is more than $100 million a year in the state. Pacific Northwest Crack Spread
The weed smokers of Oregon are now subsidizing the crackheads? I wonder if Hunter Biden is considering a move to the state. Actually, he probably got paid $83,000 a week to sit on the board that recommended this silly law. Sorry, that’s a bad joke because unlike natural gas, Hunter does have expertise and experience in smoking crack. I’ll try harder.
Only small amounts of drugs are decriminalized, such as less than 1 gram of heroin or MDMA; 2 grams of cocaine or methamphetamine; 12 grams of psilocybin mushrooms; and 40 doses of LSD, oxycodone or methadone.
Small amounts? I’m not a drug user and I don’t understand the metric system so I don’t know if 1 gram of smack is a little or a lot. I do know know that 40 doses of of LSD or Oxy is a shitload though. Holy shit.
Criminal penalties for possession of these amounts are replaced with a fine of up to $100, which can be waived if the user is evaluated at Addiction Recovery Centers. Birds Of The Pacific Northwest
But do they get to keep the drugs when they get not busted? Losing 40 hits of acid isn’t nothing.Pacific Northwest Craftsman Homes
This is what we call a slippery slope. First they decriminalize hard drugs and next they legalize medicinal narcotics. Suddenly every toothless dirt bag will have a sore foot and get issued a medical meth card. From there, recreational narcotics will be legalized and crack dispersers will go up right next to dare care centers. It’s called progress, you uptight conservatives.Pacific Northwest Craftsman Home Plans
Earlier this year the city of Portland voted to defund the police department by radically slashing its budget. Before that, the liberals in charge decided that rioting, looting, and assaulting people with different opinions was totally cool. Now that hard drugs have been decriminalized things are going to get real interesting. It’ll be like Mad Max without the cars but more speed.
