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To: Arlis

Don’t know, but a column of merely static liquid over a mile high would express one helluva pressure at the bottom.


29 posted on 02/24/2014 8:52:24 AM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: SgtHooper

You got that right!


30 posted on 02/24/2014 10:30:53 AM PST by Arlis
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To: SgtHooper

BUT, as the mass of rock is many times more than the mass of water, at any given depth, the pressure on the rock should be the same multiple of rock to water.......

I.e., wouldn’t the rock pressure a mile deep be greater than the water pressure in the ocean a mile deep?

Yes, but only if the rock were a liquid. As it is a solid, the pressure is probably nil at any given point, being distributed over a huge volume.

Have to ask my structural engineer son......I’m electrical......


31 posted on 02/24/2014 10:34:13 AM PST by Arlis
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