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Re:Could We Stop Yellowstone from Erupting with a Giant Geot... by thaumasiotes on Monday December 11, 2023 @12:31AM (#38597940)
> Drilling into, or above, the magma chamber below Yellowstone would be fraught with problems. For one, it could potentially cause the volcano to erupt, the very thing we’re trying to avoid.
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Re:Could We Stop Yellowstone from Erupting with a Giant Geot... by _just7_ on Monday December 11, 2023 @01:46AM (#38598241)
He literally just said that's not how volcanos work
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Re:Could We Stop Yellowstone from Erupting with a Giant Geot... by frozenport on Monday December 11, 2023 @01:58AM (#38598285)
Lol, thats a quote from the article.
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Re:Could We Stop Yellowstone from Erupting with a Giant Geot... by andrewflnr on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:42PM (#38608185)
I, for one, am pretty sure the article is wrong there. What I've heard from geologists is that Yellowstone's magma chambers simply are not molten enough to erupt.
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Re:Could We Stop Yellowstone from Erupting with a Giant Geot... by fooker on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:35AM (#38610281)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/yellowstone-supervolcano-lot-magma...
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Re:Could We Stop Yellowstone from Erupting with a Giant Geot... by andrewflnr on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @03:17PM (#38617793)
Right, "up to 20%", whereas the threshold for "barely eruptible" is in the 50% range, according to this article: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1617105113 Unless the rules are way different for supereruptions, which I guess we have to consider, but probably not 30% different.
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