Monday, October 19, 2009

drilling?

I wanted to take a pause from listing reason's why we don't have to fear Yellowstone quit yet, and explain a suggestion made by people around me that may not know much about geology. It's really kind of humorous to me but I have had people ask me why we can't just drill to the magma chamber and release the pressure. The simple answer to this is that if we drilled it would cost a huge amount of money and wouldn't do any good. At that pressure and heat the rock is almost like a liquid and the whole would just seal immediately after it was drilled. You can look up some facts about this on the internet. One website I found is a Q and A by the usgs and can be found here...

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/2005/docudrama.html

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