Is Arkansas a reawkaening caldera?!

Obviously this is what happened. The birds were flying into airplane propellers. You see, these birds follow one another like lemmings. You just crank up that plane and choppidy chop, chop. I also agree with the previous poster about kids putting firecrackers under their nests or throwing them up real high, or maybe bottle rockets, you know. This could have been caused by a big combination of factors like that.

The fish were probably real old. I mean, fish and birds flock together in similar age groups, so it is possible many of these just died of old age too.

It would stand to reason since there are natural hot springs in Arkansas....until I read this....


Geology - What makes the water hot?
The words "hot springs" often conjure up images of volcanoes, geysers, and underground chambers of molton rock or magma, and usually these features are found associated with hot springs.

But in this area, the earth is relatively quiet. There is no evidence of magma lying close below the earth's surface to heat underground water. Instead geologists believe that just the right combination of rock types and old faults exists here to permit water to perculate deep, where it is heated by surrounding rock.

Carbon - 14 dating methods and the measurement of tritium (an isotope of hydrogen) show that the hot springs water began as rainwater which fell over 4,000 years ago.

Two rock types in the area, Bigfork Chert and Arkansas Novaculite, act like giant sponges, they are porous or highly fractured. Lying in tilted layers, these rocks absorb the rain and conduct it slowly downward to a great debth. The water travels downward for nearly 4,000 years to depths between 2,000 and 8,000 feet.


[link to www.hot.springs.national-park.com]


So is there other geological hot spots in Arkansas that would indicate magma under the surface?

Last Edited by FatalWishes on 01/04/2011 05:01 PM

so you got a link for that skippy?

I found this on the USGS about Arkansas volanic history, though I could not locate any mention of where any ancient volcanoes may be located.


Arkansas's Volcanic Tuff:1
Tuff is a pyroclastic rock composed mostly of angular fragments of volcanic material deposited from the air. If deposited on land while hot, the particles weld together as a welded tuff; otherwise, normal lithification occurs. In Arkansas, two tuff units are present. The Hatton tuff lentil of the Stanley Shale (Mississippian) is exposed in Polk County. Southwest of the community of Hatton, the tuff has a maximum thickness of 300 to 400 feet, but 90 feet is more common. The tuff is massive, homogeneous, and jointed so that determination of bedding is difficult. The unweathered fine-grained rock is dark gray and may appear spotted due to light-colored feldspar crystals. Under the microscope, numerous broken volcanic glass fragments (shards) compose much of the rock. The unweathered rock is tough, compact, and may contain Late Pennsylvanian milky quartz veins. The Hatton tuff is not used in Arkansas for aggregate, although it does pass concrete-aggregate specifications of the Texas Highway Department. It is quarried near Hatton and exported to east Texas for use in concrete. The Hatton have potential as a cementing agent. Tuff beds are also present in southwest Arkansas in the Woodbine Formation (Cretaceous), but have no resource potential for aggregate.

[link to vulcan.wr.usgs.gov]

Show canceled do to voice chat work....

There is diamonds in arkansas so there musta been some volcanic activity there.

Is the show back on now that the new VC is up and running?