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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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