Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Santa Barbara (Global Adventures): A group of football field sized asphalt domes have been discovered in the Pacific Ocean, 10 miles offshore from Santa Barbara, California. 35,000 years ago, undersea volcanoes deposited massive flows of petroleum on the ocean floor that later formed the domes, scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutions (WHOI) say. "It [...]