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To: snooker
The huge pool of hot rock lying 125 miles beneath Yellowstone slightly dropped from 1985 to 1995.

125 miles? That's a glaring error, I'm afraid. I'd say more like 12.5 miles, even less in some spots. There are places in Yellowstone where the magma is no more that 3 miles from the surface. That's the nature of a caldera -- it is an upward "bubble" of magma, in this case, it is about 30 miles across.

10 posted on 08/11/2003 1:35:28 PM PDT by Migraine (my grain is pretty straight today)
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To: Migraine
There are places in Yellowstone where the magma is no more that 3 miles from the surface

I wonder if a nuke would breach that puppy ?

62 posted on 08/14/2003 5:41:07 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
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