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"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 long and wide at the 100 fathom line (-185 m), while the base measures 130 km by 80 km at -4200 m. Surrounding the pedestal is a much larger mid-basin swell known as the Bermuda Rise, measuring 900 km by 600 km at the 5000 m depth contour. The islands of Bermuda are located on the southeastern margin of the Bermuda Pedestal. The oceanic crust surrounding the Bermuda is about 120 Ma, while the initial uplift of the Bermuda Rise occurred in the Middle to Late Eocene. Erosion continued from that time until the Early Oligocene. Volcaniclastic deposition and erosion ended with subsidence below sea level in the Late Oligocene. Volcanic basement is at -75 m across the platform, and -50 m on the island, except for a highpoint near Castle Harbour, at -15 m. These volcanics consist of tholeiitic lavas and intrusive lamprophyric sheets. Scientists have long considered the Bermuda Pedestal to be the remains of a large extinct shield volcano that formed between 45 and 35 million years ago. A number of theories have been established to explain the origin of the Bermuda Pedestal. According to one of these theories, it was formed by the volcanic activity of the Bermuda hotspot. In contrast, Peter R. Vogt and Woo-Yeol Jung propose instead that the Bermuda Pedestal possibly formed as a result of a worldwide reorganization of the Earth's tectonic plates due to the closing of the Tethys Ocean when the Indian subcontinent collided with Eurasia. The size of the Bermuda Pedestal combined with knowledge of other mid-ocean volcanoes tells us that the Bermuda volcano originally reached above sea level and that it took three to ten million years to reduce it to sea level. See also *Geography of Bermuda *Bermuda hotspot *List of shield volcanoes References Volcanoes of Bermuda Polygenetic shield volcanoes Eocene volcanoes Eocene North America "
"William Gore DD (died 25 February 1784) was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.. He was born the son of the Right Reverend William Gore, Dean of Down and his wife Honora Prittie. Previously the Dean of Cashel from 1736 to 1758,"The Universal magazine", Volume 22 (1758) p22 he was nominated Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh on 17 March 1758, consecrated on 16 April of that year; translated to Elphin on 3 March 1762; and finally to Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe on 5 March 1772."Dodsley's annual register" Burke,E: London, J.Dodsley 1780 In 1783 he commissioned the building of a Manor House at Old Connaught, near Bray, but in County Dublin. Old Connaught House still exists today as a private and gated development of apartments in and around the Old House. He died on 25 February 1784. He had married twice, firstly, Mary, daughter of Chidley Coote and secondly, Mary, daughter of William French, with whom he had a son, William, who became an MP. References Bishops of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh Anglican bishops of Elphin Bishops of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe 1784 deaths Deans of Cashel Year of birth unknown Diocese of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe "
"Mordellistena suspecta is a species of beetle in the genus Mordellistena of the family Mordellidae. It was described by Fall in 1907.Genus Mordellistena at BugGuide. 15 February 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2012. ReferencesExternal links *Coleoptera. BugGuide. Beetles described in 1907 suspecta "