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To: Red Badger
Most of the magma is concentrated in the northeast section of the caldera, where 400–500 km³ of rhyolitic magma resides — a quantity exceeding the output of the Mesa Falls eruption (1.3 million years ago).

This scentence (spelling deliberate) is linguistic sleight-of-hand. I doubt mightily that a volcano ejects all of the available magma. It reads like it's a prediction, but the purveyors know it's not.

48 posted on 08/15/2025 10:21:53 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Carry_Okie

It would be hilarious if it did. I can just see the Earth flying around the solar system like a punctured balloon as it spews out all available magma. That would be a fitting end to our civilization, species, and world. To go out like a giant whoopee cushion.


59 posted on 08/15/2025 10:34:28 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus
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To: Carry_Okie

On that scale whether a volcano ejects all, or most, or just some over a period of time will make no difference worth noting. Few will be around to note it in any case.


96 posted on 08/15/2025 12:16:41 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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